The 3rd periodic 340 Club Reunion has been postponed indefinitely

Before there was an Animal House there was a 340 Club; before there was a Dean Wormer there was a Harold "the fuck" Martin; before there was John Blutarsky or a Daniel Simpson Day there was Tim Lutter, Sil Simpson, Dan Joyce, Tim Getzloff, Dick Lichty, Jim Shay, Phil Zangari, Chris Joyce, Dave Petkosh, Mitch Herr, Kenny Giltner, Dean Staherski, Randy Brown, John Emswiler, Sue Krimmell Emswiler and myself; before there were any Delta Tau Chi pledge pins, there were 340 Club cards; before Otis Day & the Knights, the 340 Jukebox; before there were Delta Brothers there were the usual gang of idiots that congregated at 328, 340 (twice) and 338 West King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a decade beginning in August 1974. This blog is dedicated to those idiots and those times. God bless Kenny, Mitch and Chris; may they rest in peace.

















virtual 340 Club members

Monday, December 17, 2007

The Greatest Day in Rock - Part Two





Bonnie Parker, Rudy Valentino and an unidentified wormer at Dunes Till Dawn , June 18, 1978.













After the Stones the gang (joined by others who did not attend the Stones concert) pushed on the the Jersey shore to more beer, a good meal, little if any sleep and then finally after midnight a club called Dunes Till Dawn. This was an all-nite club that featured the best rock n' roll on the east coast. On this particular morning that feature was The Bonnie Parker Band. The unknown wormer in the above photo is, of course, me and it is my recollection that my life was saved (from those Jersey bouncers) by Kenny Giltner, 340 Club, and Bonnie Parker, herself, who alerted two burly gorillas that I was cool and that the worm was a staple of the act, at least when the band played The Village in Lancaster. Below is a repesentative Bonnie Parker setlist:

Mean Old Queen of Rock n Roll (original)
Do Ya Wanna Touch - covering Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Do Ya - ELO
Gimmee Shelter/Let's Spend the Night Together/Brown Sugar
Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens
All Coked Up (original)
All Day and All of the Night/You Really Got Me
I Just Wanna Make Love to You - Foghat
Lookin’ for a true love - J. Giels Band
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
Rock n Roll - Led Zeppelin

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