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S A L "Go out and Over the years you've proven to be a rather

prolific composer. Are the Amplifier Heads
songs all new compositions? Is there an older
never released song or two that fit the
project and are you writing all of the bands

B A G L I O Interviewed by: experience material or is it a collaborative effort?
The last song recorded and written for my first
Woodrow Bavota
band The Stompers was in 1985. The Amplifier
Heads music is everything new, now and in-
between.
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live music!" The summer of 1966 I bought The Beatles
Michael Sparks Keegan What was the first 45 record and first LP that
michaelsparkskeegan.com you purchased?

money came from my older brother!! The first
Anyone that has heard the name Sal Baglio knows that he is synonymous "Paperback Writer/Rain". However the
LP that I purchased was The Kinks' Lola Versus
with the band called, The Stompers. Right now, Sal has moved to new Powerman And The Moneygoround in 1970.
musical heights and left an indelible mark on the Boston Rock N' Roll scene.
As a singer, guitarist and composer, Sal Baglio has What guitar do you have leaning against your
couch, and have you named it?
touched all the bases that have rounded out a
successful musical career. But with his recent An old Stella who I call Stella.
work as a solo artist, Baglio embarks upon a new Who are your musical heroes, old and new?
path that looks backward in the most delightful With so many writers, producers and artists
way. Baglio’s music and solo performances dial up that have inspired me, it is difficult to
name them all. Here are a few: Ray
a past that is easily imagined in a less-distracted
Davies/The Kinks, Brian Wilson, NRBQ,
age where music bursts boldly out of a car’s AM Beatles, Stones, Pete Townsend/The Who,
radio on a summer drive or floats in the Tom Waits, Dylan, Louis Prima, Little Richard,
Chuck Berry…
imagination of a young solitary artist learning to
strum his first guitar. New paths or old, Baglio
projects a welcome sense of place, family and CLICK ON ALBUM COVERS
friends, a “pocket full of memories” where streets
named London and Liverpool strike more than TO LISTEN TODAY!
mere fancy allusions to the Beatles, the Kinks and
others. They set fire in the mind of a young artist
that will forever remain in his persona. Free of
the demands of the music industry, Baglio is
liberated to recall the past without
sentimentality but with a flourish of great stories
that underpin his new songs — songs that aim for
the gentle heart. Baglio will never be separated Sal, you've created Rock n' Roll Your latest project The Amplifier
from the impulsive spirit of “American Fun”, the fantasies for many, many people over Heads, released their first CD LOUDAH
the years. Have you had your Rock n' in November of 2019. What is the
hit he wrote with his legendary Boston band, The
Roll Fantasy? concept behind the Amplifier Heads
Stompers, that remains absolutely joyous in its and what was your process in choosing CLICK TO FOLLOW
As a young boy back in 1964, I would
sing-along refrain. Yet, as he ages — and we with listen repeatedly to The Beach Boys your band mates?
him — Baglio reveals where all that great music Concert record from top to bottom and The Amplifier Heads is the name in THE AMPLIFIER HEADS
picture myself in the band while jumping which I release all of my new music.
began and why. His solo performances —
around my parents living room. Fast Currently, for live shows the band
powerful, filled with humor and touched by the forward to the early 80’s when my first features three close friends who also
reflections of an artist still at work– are not to be band were opening shows for The Beach happen to be top rock n roll warriors;
Boys. At the end of one show Carl Dan Kopko guitar, Brad Hallen bass &
missed.
Wilson asked if I’d like to join them for Marty Richards drums.
-Frank Conte Editor & Publisher EastBoston.com the encore. A wonderful and surreal
moment for sure!
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