How sad to hear that Clarence Clemons is in the hospital after suffering a stroke in his Florida home over the weekend. Not so important to us is that he performed with Lady Gaga on American Idol recently. More important to us is how much fun we had at the Brass Monkey celebration bash where this photo was taken. When Winn-Dixie made plans to pull the lease on the Brass Monkey, the community showed up, including Clarence who spends lots of his leisure time in Marathon, to protest. The Winn-Dixie reversed its decision and the Monkey threw a party and invited the community to celebrate. Unsure of how we might fit into the bash, we tentatively went with Dave and Doris. What a great time we had. Real people having a real good time. Everyone, including Clarence, treated us like locals. And I was this close to a great sax player, Clarence Clemons.
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Hey, Sal! When I saw the news about Clarence I thought of all of us at the Brass Monkey. Hope he is doing well.
That sure was a fun day, and you even got a kiss from the very famous "Rocket Man!"
I thought you WERE locals!
How cool to be right up close like that!
Yes, Shawn, we are KCB locals, but not Monkey locals. We just had to keep remembering, "What happens at the Monkey, stays at the Monkey".
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