Talk:Joe Vitale (musician)

Short story about Joe and Me - Age 12
Joe and I went to grade school together at Saint John's in Canton. We were always friends, but never really close buddies. Perhaps the closest friendship we ever fostered was in the seventh grade, as we struggled through those preteen years together. I remember Joe as an ornery kid, who was always fun to hang around with. Not really a BAD kid...just mischievous. One incident that involved Joe and I is recounted in his book. It's the infamous milk bottle flushing spree we went on in the boy's room, that ended up backing up the entire school's sewer system. I don't remember getting in TOO much trouble over it, and I'm sure they never called our parents, because 45 years later, Joe shared the incident with a reporter in the Ticket Magazine insert to the Canton Repository. When my 85 year old mother read it, she was shocked that such terrible behavior went on at our beloved parochial school, never realizing that Joe’s partner in crime was her own son. I shared the incident with my own son Vince Capuano, who was more surprised that his dad never told grandma about the incident, than he was at the story itself.

My fondest memories of Joe involve the days when we would sit at the old piano in the auditorium at Saint John's, and Joe would teach me how to chord some basic boogie woogie, so he could jam a riff at the top end with both hands. I think that's where I myself learned to love music, and eventually took up the keyboards. I'm strictly a church player, and Joe is a rock musician, but our lives came together in a special way that year.

I don't know if Joe would remember the morning when our musical careers almost came to a crashing (literally) halt, when our seventh grade teacher, Mr. Fitzmorris caught us playing rock & roll on the old piano, instead of attending morning mass. He snuck up on the two of us, and slammed the cover down on the keyboard, narrowly missing breaking all 20 of our fingers. Honestly, I never saw him so angry. He was usually such a calm teacher, but something about the music infuriated him, I guess. I'd ask him about it, but he died a few years later at a fairly young age from heart disease, which ran in his family.

Funny how life turns out. Fitzy didn't break our fingers, and died a young man. I went on to serve the Lord with my new found passion for the piano, and Joe has of course brought millions of fans countless hours of joy with his immense musical talent.

Every time I think of Joe, which is more often than he probably could imagine, I feel good. I feel happy about the time we had together. Most of all, I feel a real joy over his success. In a business that is often marred by some very messed up people, Joe inspires me as one of the "good guys". He deserves more recognition for his talent and contributions to his field. Truly, Joe Vitale is a legend.

Mark Capuano January 23, 2009 76.188.40.219 (talk) 01:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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