Tour Dates
3-9-'10
Great News! Click here for tickets!
We are performing at the ALS Benifit April 25th.
-Please come and help support this great cause-
This is the third year, Mick Du Russel is putting together a big fund raising music show for ALS research (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
This years show will take place on Sunday, April 25th at the Nutty Irishman in Farmingdale, Long Island, from 3pm till 11pm or later. Proceeds from the cover charge and the raffles will be donated to the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Research Center at Columbia University in NYC.
The entertainment lined up so far include The Red, White and Blues Band (featuring members from Cyndi Lauper's original band; Godfrey Townsend and Andy Aladart are probably joining them), That 70's Band (LI's favorite 8 piece party band) and The Raves featuring guitarist Larry Zettwoch from Randy and the Rainbows. Many celebrity musicians have been invited. Liberty DeVitto, Ian Lloyd, Jon Paris and Ricky Byrd are definitely interested in coming. There will definitely be some surprise guests. Sports celebrities will also be coming also.
Raffles items will include an autographed guitar, signed sports and entertainment memorabilia, gift certificates, etc...
Barnaby Bye will also be playing at this benefit. Each band will play approx an hour or so.
We're very proud to have Mike Ricciardella being featured in
Sticks 'n' Skins (read more)
A Photography Book About the World of Drumming.
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This is a short clip of Peppy Castro (of Barnaby Bye and The Blues Magoos)
performing solo, his classic "Jessie Girl" at the Boulton Center May 30th. 2009.
Photos by Jim Sabiston www.essentiallightphotography.com
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Here it is! Our Fly On The Wall video of the Bye Dinner Cruise!
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-A message from our old pal Mike Tyson-
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The show at the Boulton was the best ever!
*above photo by Fred Appel, check out the gallery of Fred's photos from the show.
click below for our Fly On The Wall Videos,
Part-1
Part-2
We'd like to thank Michele, Scott, Dave Giacione, Mike Barberich, Jon Taylor
for helping us make this show the success it was,
and all our wonderful friends and fans for their amazing support.
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We're proud to be part of this great compilation, California Groove, released by Warner France.
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Check out page 42 of Stream Magazine
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Our friend Carol started a Bye fan site, it's still under constuction but feel free to
upload you photos, videos or questions.
Click here: Barnaby Bye Fan Club | Fansite with photos, videos, and more
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The Benefit for Autism was a great event, we'd like to thank Jon Taylor
and Mike Barberich for all their help and expertise, also we'd like to thank our fans
and friends for supporting this great cause. Below is a two part Fly On The Wall video
-Mulcahy's FOTW Part One- Mulcahy's FOTW Part Two-
We also got some great photos from Iris, Jesse and Danny. Thanks guys!
We received a nice note from the organizers:
Many, many thanks to you and all of the guys that make Barnaby Bye such a great group! You all helped make DDI's Rockin' for Autism AGAIN! a great success. I really enjoyed working with you and, of course, the music was wonderful.Also, the ladies that accompanied you Sunday morning were very wonderful, volunteering to help us out and staying the whole day. Just amazing!Please give everyone our special thanks for helping champion our cause for the children and adults served by DDI. Even in light of such scary economic times, it's the spirit of people like you that make this such a beautiful country to live in.Good luck on your European tour, be safe and keep in touch.
Very best regards to all,
Annette & Bob Padich
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Glory Daze Music has posted an interview with the four of us, it's a good one,
check it out:
BARNABY BYE FLIES AGAIN!
Dec 2008 interview with Bobby and Billy Alessi, Peppy Castro and Mike Ricciardella.
Written by: Eric Abrahamsen
It seems these days nearly every band worth their salt at one time or another are attempting a reunion of some form. I usually don't get too excited about such things since there are very few artists or groups I really want to hear from again and with the passage of time most of these attempts at a 'comeback' are not worth the effort. Enter Barnaby Bye, a New York based band who released two wonderful albums of Beatles-like pop in the early 70's. Am I excited about this? You bet! Barnaby Bye featured Billy and Bobby Alessi, Peppy Castro and Mike Ricciardella - names that should be familiar with Glory Daze readers through the various AOR projects they would be involved with throughout the 70's and 80's. On a whim, I contacted Bobby Alessi and in turn got an interview with all four members of Barnaby Bye giving us some background on their past and plans for the future…more
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We're back and it really was a great trip, we were busy almost the whole time but loved every minute of it,
our sincere apologies to all our fans that didn't get to see us this time out. The good news is we're already
booking a trip for this Spring. The Wakker Jazz club had been sold out for three weeks before the show, Adrie
always treats us like family and spoils us.
We were interviewed for Stream magazine by the famous John Oomkes (he's interviewed everyone,
even us, thirty years ago. The magazine had a video crew at our show in the Tulip Tree Jazz Club.
check out "All For A Reason"
We love that we can maintain our connection with our French fans, this means a lot to us.
We have lots of photos and tons of Fly On The Wall footage of us with so many of our friends in our
favorite places doing our favorite thing, making music, with more than a few laughs along the way.
Here's our F.O.T.W. of the beginning of the trip.
"Rock-a-Bye Plane"
"Exercise Bye Walking"
(more to come as soon as we recover from our Jet-Lag)
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Brookville Ampitheater was a blast, it was great sharing the stage will all the great bands that
helped carve out Long Islands musical history. Barnaby Bye were honored
with this beautiful award, (we each got one) thanks to the Long Island Music Hall Of Fame.
We have lot's of photos from the show and a video of our opening song "Do You Feel It (Live)" , also our
Fly On The Wall Video.
The live footage that was shot courtesy of Brad Berger, Mary Mucci & Scott Richards
Thanks to all our fans that braved the cold to support us, here's what they said about the show:
..Oh Man, When you guys hit the chorus on All for a reason, aha aha aha -its killer man..I never heard you guys play with a sound system like that, how can 4 guys completely fill the air with such pureness is beyond me..That is absolutely the best I have ever seen BYE- ALESSI..SPOT ON BRO !! SPOT ON--PEPPY WAS OUT OF CONTROL, DAMMMMM--
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It was raining memories... old and new! Thanks for the new ones!
Tell Peppy he doesn't need to lose anymore weight; he looks fabulous and hasn't moved onstage like yesterday in ages.
The harmonies were airtight, Mikey is an anchor and........you and Billy are (in my book) National Treasures!
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What can I say???
Great as usual!!!!
I loved the place. I just wish you guys were the only group to perform,, it was too short!
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The following will be based on a scale of 1-10
HARMONIES--11
MUSIC ABILITIES--11
STAGE PRESENCE --11
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For all of our video fans we've uploaded 4 new videos from 4 part series titled:
'Barnaby Bye Goes To Europe'
Part-1 ___ Part-2___ Part-3 ___Part-4
We made a bunch of videos while we were there, we can't help ourselves.
Here are four of them, more to come.
Barnaby Bye would especially like to thank: Jon Taylor, Mike Barberich, Dennis Folger and
Brad Berger for all their hard work with audio, lighting, video and technical support.
Thanks guys - we appreciate you always being there for us.
The New Barnaby Bye CD, 'Thrice Upon A Time" is available!!!
Please note that payments can be easily made using any credit card on Paypal
which is a secure payment method. Simply go to paypal.com and make payment to
barnabybye1@aol.com
"Thrice Upon A Time" or any other of our CDs
shipped within the US $22.90
shipped outside the US $24.90
Our new T-shirt
shipped inside the US $24.00
shipped outside the US $26.00
photo by Fred Appel
The show at the Boulton was a great success, we'd like to thank everyone for their
support. There will be a full update when we return from Europe, gotta pack.
Here's our Fly On The Wall Videos from the April 5th. show:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
here's just some of the feedback:
"wonderful concert last night .... you guys put on a great show"
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"The singing was
great and the new songs sounded as strong as the older ones. Great show!"
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"wow! Two & a half hours of pure bliss, last night was the best Barnaby Bye has sounded
& looked since the 70's .."
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"show was great Saturday night! You guys were incredible. Can't stop talking about it.
The new CD is amazing, I love it"
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"Once again to simply state, another unbelievable, rocking, standing O performance!!!
from the unbelievable harmony of the opening song, right down to the very
last note of White Tornado!!! Encore!!!"
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"After seeing you guys perform your musical magic this past Saturday, you
have two new die-hard fans."
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"you guys were fantastic"
photos by Brad Berger
Here's a short Fly On The Wall clip of a Barnaby Bye rehearsal on 4-3-08.
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Thanks GoodTimes Magazine for this great article.
click here to view article
Click here to check out an audio sample of the Thrice album
Click here to check out the video sampler of the Thrice album
Barnaby Bye are proud to be involved with the Save The Children Foundation.
Scheduled fundraisers will be announced.
We'd like to thank Terri Muran (savethechildrenli@gmail.com) for letting Barnaby Bye be a part of this great cause.
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We'd like to thank the guys from California-101, The West Coast Radio in France for their support!
For all of the Illusion fans there a new Illusion site http://www.myspace.com/illusion1969 with lots of rare photos, videos and audio.
The Illusion, Mike's first band, was a rock & roll
phenomena.
Check out our video! 'Just Like That' live.
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Mike's Drum Solo sample
Ahmet Ertegün ( July 31 , 1923 - December 14 , 2006 ) was the Turkish -
American co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records , described as
"one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ertegün
Ahmet discovered Barnaby Bye back in '72 and believed in us. There's a great story of how he came to
Kenny's Castaways to see us perform and invited us to his townhouse to convince us why we should
sign with Atlantic records. We
got him to ride there in our 1950 Dodge, with his limo and body guards
close behind. He passed away in December and we will never forget what he's meant to us.
There's a wonderful documentary on his amazing life and we were very suprised to see ourselves
in it. Thanks again Ahmet, you rock!
Clip 1 Of Barnaby Bye and Ahmet from the documentary
Clip 2
The Barnaby Bye website was designed by Fred and Derek Appel. Thanks guys!
click here for news archives, photos, video clips and lots of goodies from the past!