Steven Van Zandt is a Springsteen side-man and a key figure in the Asbury music scene. When Adriana asks what "experts" Christopher discussed the Visiting Day demo with, he names Hesh and also Silvio, who he says used to own "rock clubs in Asbury".Adriana then turns up the Bon Jovi song " You Give Love a Bad Name" as "paisan pride." Christopher names what he considers to be "great Italian singers: " Frankie Valli, Dion, and The Rascals.An envious Christopher complains to Adriana that Massive Genius lives in The Hamptons where he is visited by Alec Baldwin and Whitney Houston.At a dinner party, Bruce Cusamano refers to the scene where Joe Pesci's character puts someone's head in a vise in Casino.Bruce later tells Tony that the golf club's membership books are closed, seemingly drawing a parallel to the memberships in becoming a made man. They also mention Umberto's Clam House in New York City, and ask Tony if he has ever been to Mount Plymouth, Florida where Al Capone used to go to play golf. While golfing with Bruce Cusamano and his friends, they ask him if he had ever met John Gotti Tony tells a made-up story about Gotti's fondness for a certain kind of ice cream truck, which enthralls them.
The title refers to when Hesh Rabkin mentions to Christopher that he knows a hit song when he hears one, saying "a hit is a hit" and that the band Visiting Day's song is not a hit, and they are not particularly talented."Juan Valdez": Shot in the forehead by Paulie Gualtieri Cusamano and friend of the Soprano family Melfi, he felt he was being "used for somebody else's amusement, like a dancing bear." Cusamano's friends pester and embarrass Tony with questions about organized crime. Cusamano (his physician) to play a round of golf at his country club along with friends of his. After some hesitation, he accepts an invitation from Dr. Tony would like to mix with meddigans, Americans not of Italian descent. A friend introduces her to the stock market and gives her a tip she buys and profits. When he tells her this, she accuses him of trying to hold her back and storms out.Ĭarmela wonders whether she and the children will be all right if anything happens to Tony, but he reassures her. Chris is told by Hesh that the band is not good, and realizes that Massive is helping them only because of his interest in Adriana.
The demo recording progresses slowly and badly and eventually, Chris smashes Richie's guitar over his back. Chris, flush with money, agrees to finance a demo for the band Visiting Day, whose singer, Richie Santini, is Adriana's ex-boyfriend. When the conversation is over, Tony and his crew jeer at this modern-day gangster who goes through the law.Īdriana proposes that she should pursue a career as a music producer and that Massive can help. Hesh refuses, and later threatens a counterclaim: there is an unauthorized sampling by Massive's record label of a song that Hesh's label still controls. Massive says he is acting on behalf of the mother of a deceased black singer whose royalties Hesh stole, and now claims $400,000.
They get a huge amount of cash - as Tony says, a once-in-a-lifetime score.Ĭhris and Adriana get to know Massive Genius, a rich gangster rapper, and Chris arranges a sit-down for him with Hesh Rabkin. Paulie, Chris, and Pussy rob and kill a Colombian drug dealer.
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