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Ed Symkus Interviews Joe Viglione https:\/\/ipswich.wickedlocal.com\/entertainmentlife\/20180826\/rat-remembered-boston-musicians-reunite-for-throwback-show-in-hull<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Atwood at WATD Interviews Joe Viglione https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/80sAlternativeRadio\/<\/a> Post on Christopher’s site: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember\n Boston’s legendary “The Rat” nightclub in Kenmore Square in the shadow \nof Fenway Park? Here’s a Rat Flashback interview with the legendary Joe \n“The Count” Viglione who was there are recorded most of the bands who \ngraced the stage. And, learn about the big “Reunion of Artists from \nCantones and the Rat on June 1–I’m spinning.
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By Ed Symkus\/For The Patriot Ledger<\/strong>Posted Aug 26, 2018 at 4:49 AM   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Viglione has so far racked up more arts-related careers than stage names, but there are plenty of each. The names, due to his longtime fascination with vampires, share a commonality. He\u2019s gone by The Count, Count Joe, and Count Viglione. The careers, because his interests go in so many directions, include singer, composer, guitarist, pianist, record producer, fanzine publisher, music and film critic, radio and TV host … the list goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in recent years, Viglione, a Somerville native, has found time to return to his performing roots. He\u2019ll be fronting his current band \u2013 perhaps it would be more accurate to call it his current show \u2013 Love & Flame as part of the sixth annual Rat Beach Party, running Aug. 30 through Sept. 2, and again on Sept. 7 at the C-Note at Nantasket Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viglione\u2019s set, on Sept. 1, will feature Kenne Highland on guitar, drummer Robin Baltimore, Roberto on bass, John Keegan on saxophone, and vocalist Lady Carolyn. Viglione, who may or may not pick up his Fender Strat and roam around the stage singing and playing on a couple of songs, will likely spend most of the 35-minute set telling stories of his life in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viglione, 64, recently chatted about some of that history by phone from his home in Malden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started writing poetry when I was 15,\u201d he said. \u201cI was an accordion player, and my grandma\u2019s piano was in the den, so I got to fool around on it. But my sister was much better at it, so when I was 17, I bought a guitar, and that\u2019s when I started setting some of my poems to music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on it all these years later, after composing and recording music that\u2019s ranged from pop to punk to metal, some of it laidback, some of it hardcore, Viglione said, \u201cI wish I stayed with my initial ideas, which, because I couldn\u2019t play like other people, involved making sounds. I should have stayed with the sounds and the whole emerging punk thing. But you get pressure from people who want you to be more traditional, so I started mixing my Lou Reed with Barry Manilow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were bands early on. The first, in 1971, was a duo called The Wurtilaks, later there was a trio called Still, still later, a quartet called Aastral Projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always a good self-promoter, Viglione explained, \u201cI spelled it with the double A because I wanted it to be first in the record bins, ahead of Aerosmith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAT BEACH PARTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the C-Note, 159 Nantasket Ave., Hull, from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, and again on Sept. 7. Joe Viglione plays on Sept. 1 at about 7:15 p.m. $5 to $10 (or more!) requested donation with proceeds benefiting special needs music students in the Hull High School Music Department. 781-925-4300<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many incarnations of many Joe Viglione-fronted bands, yet he now says, \u201cI was a better songwriter than I was a bandleader. Nowadays I have John Keegan running the band.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before getting into what that current band will be doing at the C-Note, Viglione explained where the name The Count came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI used to collect these 8mm films that I bought at Lechmere. They were Universal movies like \u2018Dracula\u2019 and \u2018House of Dracula.\u2019 Some of them were five-minute clips from them, others were 15 minutes. I\u2019d be playing baseball or going swimming with my friends, and afterward they\u2019d come over to my house and watch them. We loved horror movies, but I took it to the next level, where my friends didn\u2019t, and they started calling me Drac. (Viglione eventually took to wearing a cape onstage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe whole persona of The Count was immature,\u201d he added, laughing. \u201cBut, you know, I was a teenager. I probably should have gotten away from it because now my close friends still call me Count Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, there were many albums, and performances at clubs all over town, most notably the Rat, Chet\u2019s Last Stand, and the Paradise. But Viglione put performing on the back burner to concentrate on music by other acts. He produced the four-CD Bobby Hebb box set titled \u201cProud Soul Heritage\u201d and he\u2019s currently the publicist at Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. But six years ago, he got a phone call from Hull resident and rocker Michael Weddle, who had the idea of putting together shows made up of musicians who had all played at the venerable Kenmore Square Club the Rathskellar \u2013 aka \u201cThe Rat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMichael called and asked me if I wanted to play at a Rat reunion,\u201d recalled Viglione. \u201cHe pulled me out of the mothballs. I said yes, and we did the first one at the Red Parrot. [Rat owner] Jimmy Harold came, I played, Unnatural Axe played, Lizzy Borden and the Axes, Reverend Joe Fagan. It was a lot of fun, and so was the second one. Then we moved it over to the C-Note, and it\u2019s all been fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first one was just Rat bands, but Michael has now also added some local high school bands to play in between those. His group, the Climate Change Band, will be following us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Viglione is still putting the set together, he\u2019s got a good idea of what it will include.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor covers, we\u2019ll do a couple of Lou Reed\u2019s tunes, we\u2019ll definitely do \u2018Pills\u2019 by the New York Dolls, and we might do \u2018Be My Baby.\u2019 As far as my originals, I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll do \u201cI Want You Sexually\u2019 and maybe \u2018Friend.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n


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