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The Chelsea Street Beggars The Gems The Modern Age Miami Noise Machine DNA Form a Ring Box of Stuff

CHELSEA STREET BEGGARS Jerry Petersen Aj Falk Bob Diaz

GEMS Jim Petersen A Falk Jack Falk Jr. Jerry Petersen Steven Bauer Mike Reynolds Bob Diaz Rene Herrara Max Martin Brad Ashley Susan Labasky

MODERN AGE Conrad Williams Afalk Mike Gamble Jack Falk Jr Roland Bestwina Dale Beene Nils Stewart Roy Sheffield

MIAMI NOISE MACHINE Mike Reynolds Afalk

DNA Dale Beene Afalk

FORM A RING Conrad Williams Ajfalk Mike Harold Alex McGhee Paul Shea Dan Gonzalez

BOX OF STUFF Conrad Williams AjFalk Tim Trakh Dan Gonzalez Chris Koga Sheree'

Above is an interlinking group of rock bands that produced several notable citizens who achieved success in the movie business and the music business. A few are notable for their parents or other relatives who have had small asterisks in show business history.

THE CHELSEA STREET BEGGARS were a seminal rock band that formed in Westchester - a suburb of Miami, Florida - in 1974. The band had 3 members - Jerry Petersen age 14, A Falk age 14 and Bob Diaz age 15. The band played Rolling Stones and Beatles covers for 2 uneventful years together but were most notable for writing 2 original songs: The Mo Song and Rock and Roll Dreams. These songs inspired the next band that formed from the ashes of THE CHELSEA STREET BEGGARS - The GEMS - which formed in 1976.

THE GEMS were notable for having 2 members of the band - Steven Bauer and Jim Petersen - that went on to have success in the movie business - Bauer as an actor (Scarface, The Beast, etc) and Petersen as a screenwriter and producer (Billionairess, The Wonder Kids). Bauer and Petersen were esp influenced by the Rolling Stones and the Who and wrote songs that incorporated a Jagger-esque lead vocal in Bauer and a McCartney-esque lead vocal in Petersen. The band moved to Los Angeles in 1979 after recording 5 singles in Tallahassee, Florida that charted from #1 to #17 on the college charts of the late 1970s. They signed a mgmt/record deal with Viking Records, however the band soon broke up and returned to Miami, Florida in 1980. In the interim Bauer had left the band and while playing the role of Manolo "Manny" on the bilinqual hit tv series QUE PASA USA!, signed a 7 picture deal with Paramount Studios that led to his now classic role as Al Pacino's side kick in DePalma's remake of the oft quoted gangster picture SCARFACE.

THE MODERN AGE formed in 1982 from the ashes of THE GEMS when Falk brothers Jack and Andy teamed up with lead singer Conrad Williams to create a hard rock pop band heavily influenced by Van Halen and Aerosmith. The band played the Southern College Circuit gaining popularity playing New Wave Covers and original music that eventually led the band back to Los Angeles where they were signed to a limited release record deal with European record giant BMG. During this time Falk brother Jack left the band and was replaced by bass player Dale Beene. Beene's aunt Barbara Leigh was notable for her relationship with Elvis Presley in the 1960s as well as her relationship with the NBC president at the time. The story as noted in the Goldman book ELVIS has it that Elvis was so enamored with Leigh that he slipped her a note while she was still on the arm of NBC president and later that night she rendevous with the king of rock for a purported 2 year affair. Leigh also appeared in Playboy dressed (partially) as an American Indian although she was actually born in Chattanooga Tenn. Another interesting side note is that Barbara Leigh was one of the ladies that author Jacqueline Susann used as inspiration in writing her groundbreaking best seller Valley of the Dolls.