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1995 - 2000



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Here's Dan Molloy in 1999
at Camelback Resort in Poconos, PA.

 

Strange Brew / The Early Years...

 

Back in the 1990's... You would've found us playing at Cafe' Accapella on Main Street in Hackensack... or at Henley's in New Milford (two of our favorite haunts - both, long gone). Or maybe you caught us at Rock N' Roll Cafe on Bleeker St. in NYC... or at the Capital Theater in Port Chester, NY... or at Camelback in the Poconos.


Wherever we were, we put on a great show and we had a blast doing it... and one of our favorite parts of the night was going to the diner after a gig.
(Those poor waitresses...)


Over a 6 year period, we had the great pleasure of performing with some very talented muscians: Lead guitarists... Barry Rose, Sam Flores, Chris Kelly and Rob Melosh... On bass, we had Kendall Bruce and later on, Dave Grego. We had Dennis Palmer on drums, after he came off a long run with the Door's cover band, Crystal Ship.


And then there were the "Dan Jams"....

We'd have about 25-30 people over at our place, with a full band set up... and guys like Vince Martell, from 'The Vanilla Fudge' would come over and jam with us.  It was magical...


A few old photos are below... Have fun reminiscing. And be sure to check out our new show. It's bigger and better than ever!

 

Peace out... And we hope to see you soon!

Dan Molloy

 

 

 

 


Here's a great poster that Dennis Palmer created



From the top down, left to right: 

Kendall Bruce, Dan Molloy, Dennis Palmer,
Barry Rose, Chris Kelly and Doreen Molloy

 

 

 

 

Steppin' Out Magazine did a couple of articles on us...
Here's one of them, published in 1997.

 

 


 


The OLD videos below from 1995
are from Chris Kelly's
YouTube page.

We had just formed Strange Brew
a few months earlier...

And on this day,
we were doing a rehearsal in a warehouse.
The audio and video are not the best quality,
but they were taken with a hand-held video camera
in 1995.

Thanks for saving these videos, Chris!

 

Chris Kelly, guitar  -:-  Sam Flores, guitar
Kendall Bruce, bass  -:-  Dennis Palmer, drums

 

-:-  Strange Brew in 1995  -:-
"White Room"

 

-:-  Strange Brew in 1995  -:-
"I'm The Only One"

 

 


 

Dan and Doreen at Cafe' Acapella

 

Dennis, Dan and Ken

 

 

 

 

 

Dan and Doreen at Club Bene'

 

 


Here's an old poster of us
performing with Vince Martell of
'The Vanilla Fudge'

And with Lou Albero,
Mick Jagger's stunt double

 

 

Here we are on stage at Columbus Circle in NYC
for Universal Harmony Day in 1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 Bleeker St., New York City


Closter, New Jersey 

 


  
Westchester, New York  

 


   Hackensack, New Jersey 

 

 


 New Milford, New Jersey

 




          Wayne, New Jersey

 


Orangeburg, New York

 

 




S. Belmar, New Jersey         


Sussex County, NJ     
 
  Port Chester, New York




   Fort Lee, New Jersey


Sayreville, New Jersey

 


Paramus, New Jersey    



Hackensack, New Jersey  
 

  Hawthorne, New Jersey

 

 

 


      Garwood, New Jersey

                

         
 Hoboken, New Jersey

 

 




Butler, New Jersey         



      White Plains, New York  

 



 Bergenfield, New Jersey



        Sea Bright, New Jersey       

 


Rutherford, New Jersey

 


Poconos, Pennsylvania      

 


47th & 8th Ave., NYC   

 

 


  Hopatcong, New Jersey

 
Sea Bright, New Jersey
 


South Amboy, New Jersey

       
Port Chester, New York  

 


Nanuet, New York      

 

 


   Hoboken, New Jersey

 
 Fort Lee, New Jersey
 

      Nyack, New York
 

Mahwah, New Jersey    

 


Bergenfield, New Jersey  

 

 


Rt. 23 North, New Jersey

 

 

After coming back from a loooong hiatus,

here are a few old clips from 2019 below...

 

Running on Faith

 

 

 

 

I Shot the Sheriff

 

 

 

Someday After A While

 

 

 

Pretending

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ahhh...
A very Strange Brew indeed!

  Fun Times...

 

 

 

 

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Dan Molloy  -:-  vocals
Doreen Molloy  -:-
 vocals

 Mike Smith  -:-  lead guitar
Mario Giampaglia  -:-
 lead guitar

Ray "Rainman" Portante  -:-  drums
Sean Francois  -:-  bass guitar
Ron Hagen  -:-  keyboards