After The Outsiders and then Climax, Sonny did this one last album in 1983 with a lineup of the best local guys, largely the Donnie Iris band members. (Sonny's real name was Emmett Peter Geraci.) One song was also done by Bon Jovi, as it was written by a local Cleveland guy, Mark Avsec. Mark grew up 5 houses away from me on the lower east side of Cleveland. 2 were written by Eric Carmen. One by a guy named Gary Jones, one of my best friends over the years who after his playing life became an entertainment lawyer, as did Avsec.



Now the fun story about this was that the Donnie Iris guys contractually could not have their names listed on the album jacket. For the jacket, they listed a bunch of guys who were a totally different band, one of whom I still see from time to time. We still laugh about the band that never was, those we laugh with more reverence now that 2 of the 4 have passed away.

Hard to believe Sonny has been gone 5 years now.