By Elliot Stephen CohenSinger Sal Valentino, who has experienced some very humorous times during his 60-plus years in the music business, recalls a show he was doing in the early ’80s with Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken. ‘It was in New York during the middle of the winter. I had a bad cold, so I was walking around backstage with long thermal underwear. So, here I am with this young Asian band getting ready to go on, looking at me like, ‘Who is this old guy!’ After the show, we all went to this West Village place that I think Steve Van Zandt had a piece of that looked like something straight out of Saturday Night Live, you know.
