This tribute site would not be complete without a tribute the wonderful contribution of Vincent "Vinnie" Cirilli who has been Bruce Kimmel's engineer for practically all 125 albums.

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Vinnie "Good eatin'" CirilliNo Vinnie quote on this album Vinnie "Good eatin'" Cirilli

Vinnie "It's the gates." CirilliVinnie did not engineer this albumVinnie "Good eatin'" Cirilli

Vinnie "Can she get us tickets for Sunset Blvd?" Cirilli Vinnie "Not another show" Cirilli

Vinnie "A Little fresh basil, garlic and chopped tomatoes." Cirilli Vinnie "Why do I have to do this Broadway stuff?" Cirilli

Vinnie "How many of these things do we have to do?" Cirilli Vinnie "I'm just the engineer--I might as well go home" Cirilli

Vinnie "Christmas???" Cirilli Vinnie "This is as a close to rock and roll as we're gonna to get, ain't it? Cirilli

Vinnie "Where are the bagels?" Cirilli Vinnie "Let's have hot fudge sundaes." Cirilli

Vinnie "Don't go there!" Cirilli Vinnie "I'm actually starting to like this stuff" Cirilli Vinnie "Ah, no vocals." Cirilli

Vinnie "Do they have pasta in Minneapolis?" Cirilli Vinnie "This puts me in the mood for a nice massage" Cirilli

Vinnie "Didn't we do this album already? Cirilli Vinnie "I thought they had good bagels in New York" Cirilli

Vinnie We need some M&M's or licorice or something." Cirilli Vinnie "No fat grams" Cirilli

  Vinnie "My Back hurts. I have aches and pains and I'm losing my sanity." Cirilli Vinnie "If you blot the pizza slices, there's less fat." Cirilli

Vinnie "How many times do we have to record 'Before the Parade Passes By?'"Vinnie "Barbecue? I'm a vegetarian!" Cirilli

Vinnie "I think I'll take up brick laying." Cirilli Vinnie "Fairies in my garden?" Cirilli

Vinnie "When will they learn? No rubato!" Cirilli Vinnie  "I thinketh I may throweth upeth" Cirilli

Vinnie "Stop with the quotes already" Cirilli Vinnie "Great I'll have some red sauce on it" Cirilli

Vinnie "Thirty-one songs--are you joking???" Cirilli Vinnie "I'll have six bowls of Count Chockula." Cirilli

Vinnie "Ooh, she tells dirty jokes--I like her." Cirilli Vinnie "I'm a bloom' dandelion." Cirilli

Vinnie "Ethel, Who?" Cirilli Vinnie "We couldn't afford the expensive truck?" Cirilli

Vinnie "How many shows did this guy write?" Cirilli Vinnie "Sarah Jessica Parker? Really?" Cirilli

Vinnie "Can't we ever go anywhere besides Joe Allen's????" Cirilli Vinnie "Sherlock, Who?" Cirilli

Vinnie "Why didn't A.J. bring fat free treats?" Cirilli Vinnie "Now we're doing guys???" Cirilli

Vinnie "Reeds in separate booths and if they don't like it--tough." Cirilli Vinnie "I'm on the internet!" Cirilli

Vinnie "I believe in fairies." Cirilli Vinnie "Three days, in and out, I like these jazz albums" Cirilli

Vinnie "If it was a silent movie why don't they shut up?" Cirilli Vinnie "This isn't the kind of career I had in mind" Cirilli

Vinnie "Nutburgers for everyone!" CirilliVinnie "Bucket? What Bucket?" Cirilli

Vinnie "It's the gates." Cirilli Vinnie "Let's give the dog a solo album." Cirilli

Vinnie "How come I never heard of any of these movies?" Cirilli Vinnie "Who, who, who." Cirilli

Vinnie "Why don't we do another city?" Cirilli Vinnie "My latest invention--Vinnie tabs!" Cirilli

Vinnie "Just put me in an insane asylum" Cirilli Vinnie I need a power bar--quick" Cirilli

Vinnie "The Darkside" Cirilli Vinnie "I don't understand why everybody plays solos at once" Cirilli

Vinnie "When will it ever end?" Cirilli Vinnie "Chicken wraps on Monday, Chin Chin on Tuesday, Acapulco on Wednesday" Cirilli

Vinnie "Hey, we're doing rock and roll!" CirilliVinnie "At least we got the nice truck" Cirilli

Vinnie  "Can't we use the cannon?" Cirilli Vinnie "No more headphones--ever!" Cirilli

Vinnie "I don't do television" Cirilli Vinnie "What's this show about?" Cirilli

Vinnie" Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles! The new Monday restaurant" Cirilli Vinnie "I want to say Cresad's Landing" Cirilli

Vinnie "Can't have chicken wraps on Tuesday. Chicken wraps are on Monday. If we have chicken wraps on Tuesday the whole week is out of whack." Cirilli

Vinnie "A groove! I can't believe it" Cirilli Vinnie "What are these time signatures" Cirilli

Vinnie "Didn't we do this album already?" Cirilli Vinnie "I'm starting to talk with an Irish accent--shoot me!" Cirilli

Vinnie "We are stylin" Cirilli Vinnie "there's a groove, I can't believe it" Cirilli

Vinnie "Now I have to come up with a quote before we record???" Cirilli Vinnie "I almost didn't get a thank you." Cirilli

Vinnie "Does it ever end?" Cirilli Vinnie "It's not working, Mike!" Cirilli Vinnie "It's spelled V-I-N-I" Cirilli

Vinnie "I know these themes" Cirilli Vinnie "Two are better than one." Cirilli

Vinnie "If she's Reddy, I'm ready." Cirilli Vinnie "We're rockin'" CirilliVinnie "Where's my Zoot suit? Cirilli

Vinnie "Downtown" Cirilli Vinnie "What's next--the Green Hornet?" Cirilli

Vinnie "Can't we record these Broadway shows in LA?" Cirilli Vinnie "Wasn't I just there? Didn't I just do this?" Cirilli

Vinnie "Ah! A massage album." Vinnie "Ah, yes...Now, darling" Cirilli

Vinnie "I'm going to figure out how to count West End Avenue if it kills me." Cirilli  Vinnie "Don't go there!" Cirilli

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Vinnie "Too many machines, too little time" Cirilli Vinnie "How many albums is this???" Cirilli

Vinnie "Forget sound. I'm shooting video" Cirilli Vinnie "More cold sesame noodles now." Cirilli

Vinnie "Give me a top hat and tails" Cirilli Vinnie "It's the end of an era." Cirilli

                                                                                                               Did Vinnie know that this was the last album at Varèse?e?

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Vinnie "I just learned how to pronounce Varèse Sarabande--now I have to learn Fynsworth?" Cirilli

Vinnie "I thought they were Siamese Twins" Cirilli

Vinnie "I eat six small meals a day now, but on Sunday I can eat eight pancakes at The Good Earth" Cirilli

Vinnie "A piano and a voice--that'll take a long time to mic!" CirilliVinnie "Finally! Something with a beat!" Cirilli

Vinnie "Now, I'm recording people with my back to me???" CirilliVinnie "Too many Russian names!" Cirilli

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Vinnie "I feel like I should go to church!" CirilliVinnie "Why is it still Winter in March?"

Vinnie "Why do I feel like a glass of bubbly?" Cirilli Vinnie "Stress...Where the hell is the stress?" Cirilli

Vinnie "Get me a ten gallon hat and some bar-b-que." Cirilli No quote

Vinnie "The hand writing's on the wall" Cirilli  (Did Vinnie know something was going to happen?)

Vinnie "I DO hear a waltz!" Cirilli

and these were released after Bruce had left Fynsworth and they did not include his thanks you

Bruce was not allowed to include a quote for this release.

Bruce was not allowed to include a quote for this release.

After the cd was released many of his devotees on haineshisway.com asked him to write his thank you notes and get a Vinnie quote.

Vinnie “they wouldn’t let you include thank yous?” Cirilli