The photo above was taken at Valentine’s Music Hall in Albany on July 28th, 2006. It was during their evening Happy Hour gigs that I was a small part of. Valentine’s Music Hall has been at that same location for years. The venue had so much history. Albany’s longtime favorite music venue where musicians go there to play music, hang out, party, and most importantly where music fans go see bands play. I played there a bunch of times for their Happy Hour evening gigs and I thought it was a great honor. Glad, I got my chance to play at Valentine’s before it closed it’s doors.

Albany Medical Center is planning an expansion and they now own the building. AMC will be turning it into more offices I believe.

In the video below… the owner Howard Glassman, briefly explains the whole thing. He said he didn’t even know it was going on. He heard about it in the news like all of us and AMC wouldn’t even negotiate with him.

I’m glad I got to play there a bunch of times and see other bands there too. It was a pretty cool venue. It’s not just a venue for local bands… national touring bands have played there as well. I’ve had a lot of good memories there.

I never played their night time gigs. Just their happy hour gigs. At least, I still got to play there, though.

Shit happens, ya know? That’s the name of the game with local music. Businesses and venues come & go around here.

Kev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y1YPzDEQ9_k