“If somebody can really deliver it, it can be really good,” he says, “but if it’s five drunk bachelorettes, something bad can happen.” Most Requested: “I personally don’t have ‘Piano Man’ on the list,” laughs McGinty, who cites Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as inevitabilities. they typically leave the show tunes to their competitors), but McGinty acknowledges, “My songbook has some Katy Perry and Britney Spears as well as Burt Bacharach and Sinatra” alongside a few songs by the Pixies and Pavement. Range of Genres: McGinty and Devitt try and differentiate themselves by keeping loosely within the parameters of rock, soul, punk and indie (i.e. In 2015, he and Beauty Bar impresario Paul Devitt opened Sid Gold’s, a piano bar where-as McGinty puts it-“no matter what the age is, there’s something in there you can sing.” Joe McGinty has been performing other peoples’ music for decades, as the founding principal of ongoing tribute troupe, Loser’s Lounge as resident pianist at bygone hip New York spots like The Lucky Cat and Manhattan Inn and during a brief stint as the keyboardist for the Psychedelic Furs.
