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Next To The Last Waltz

from Roscoe's Gang by Eric Ambel

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"Next to the Last Waltz" was a song I wrote with Peter Holsapple. The Del-Lords had a practice room right across the hall from the dB's, up at the old Music Building on 8th Avenue, and I became friendly with Peter. I was over at his apartment on 14th Street; The Last Waltz had been on Channel 13, and both of us had just seen it for the first time ever, and we started working on this song. We ended up finishing the lyrics on a cocktail napkin at a restaurant at 9th and A called the Pharmacy, which was the first halfway upscale cloth-napkin restaurant on A.

Donnie Thompson is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever heard, but he's also one of the most reluctant, and it's hard to get him to solo. So after we cut "Next to the Last Waltz," I told him, "OK Donnie, I want you to punch in a guitar solo that is gonna give a headache to every kid that ever tries to figure it out. I want each lick to be more impossible than the lick before." And Donnie and Lou sat there, using the technology of 1972, punching it in on the tape machine, and putting on one over-the-top lick after the other. A few years later, it was a scream to send my good buddy Warner Hodges home with a tape of songs to learn for some Roscoe's Gang gigs, knowing that one was on there. I sure couldn't play it!

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from Roscoe's Gang, released June 7, 1988

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Eric Ambel Brooklyn, New York

Guitar player, producer, songwriter Eric Ambel has been releasing musical nuggets during the Pandemic as the "Shut In Singles Series". His last studio record was "Lakeside". Please check out his recorded works here.

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