Greatest store ever!!! I've been going there since the store opened in 1985. I can not emphasize the importance of what Steve Keeler and Rock Fantasy has meant to the Hudson Valley music scene. Long live Rock Fantasy!!!
Very cool Rock Fantasy store and facade design Pete. Very kind to share this video with SoT fans. Mr. Keeler is a great guy and this gives him great exposure for his store!
@@seaoftranquilityprog Hi Pete, I'm thinking of dropping by the fair outside Middletown this evening (via the store first!). Where will you guys be? Maybe can meet up with you and any of the Hudson Valley Squares. I have car and have to drive back so beer is out 😥 well maybe one... but be good to catch some of those bands too. Cheers! Mike Phillips UK/Middle East SoT supporter
Rock Fantasy is one of the great shops of the country. I'm a music distributor, Music Millennium out west in Portland is one of the shops I worked at and it's fun to stay in the business and push records into stores. Compliments to Steve, and thanks for the current tour.
I just subscribed to Steve's channel recently and watched a couple of the Rock Fantasy videos. Also asked myself... 'Wouldn't it be awesome to have some sort of recent tour in Rock Fantasy?" and B-O-O-M... There we have it. Fantastic idea of Pete recording his visit to the store.
Steve, love the store. As a classic arcade and all pinball collector as well as music lover I can't wait to visit one of these days. Pete thanks for showing it!
Thanks, Pete. Steve has a killer store. Thank you Steve, for keeping the music alive just like Pete. We need more record stores like yours. Excellent episode.
What a treat seeing Steve's Rock Fantasy store!! Quite a store!! Thank ypu Pete and Steve for sharing this with us. Hope to make it out there soon! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Wow , what amazing place Steve . this just felt like home . Brought me back to my teen yrs in the 80s in Toronto every weekend hitting all the record stores and head shops . I hope one day i will be able to head down there and meet Steve and hangout and support the store. Thank you Pete for doing this for us. 👍
Wow . If Only I lived in Middletown I d be there everyday. What an amazing Rock N Roll Collection of Pinball machines ! Dedicated Love of Rock N Roll Love it !
Keep rockin' on Steve! Buying online may be easier, but Steve will give the personal touch. You can't converse with a website, but go to Rock Fantasy and I'm sure Steve will talk your ear off! What you'll receive are suggestions and great ideas about bands you may not be familiar with. Best of luck to you Steve, and many more years of service in Middletown NY. Support your local shops.
DUDE!! I would love this store! Wish it was in my city. So happy to see a store like this still thriving with internet and streaming so prominent today. I used to LOVE walking into the record store as a kid!
This is great! Proper record store run by Steve, a proper, proper music person and all with a bit of Pete sprinkled on top. More "out-and-about-with-Pete-Pardo'! Whoop Whoop!
That was an awesome tour, thanks for sharing. My wife and I are travel nurses and whatever city/town we are in I like to visit the local record stores. It's so cool to feel the different vibe each city has at their record shops. Hope to visit Rock Fantasy someday. Rock on.
I totally forgot about this place, but now my memory of it has been jogged. I remember my cousin who grew up outside of Middletown taking me there once, maybe thirty years ago or so. I remember buying a Gretchen Goes To Nebraska tee there. The place reminded me of a couple of shops that used to be on W 8th St. in Manhattan long ago, but which have been gone for many years now, sadly. Now that my parents live up there, I need to check the place out next time go up to visit.
I worked close to the town in 1987 and 1992, so I must have visited, though can't remember. I may be in the area again soon, I may pay these guys a visit!
Wow!! Two of my favourite things there. Vinyl records and pinball machines. I could probably spend a whole day in there easily. Those Elvis pinball machines are everywhere. LOL Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Pete, very cool idea, If Im correct, It's been years since you made a video at Rock Fantasy. I would love to come down and visit for sure if I had the chance and would love to meet Steve and other SOT people ! All right, cheers everyone, stay safe !
Great looking store! I love all those black light posters and other memorabilia on display. Will definitely visit Rock Fantasy next time I take a trip down thru the Hudson Valley.
Cool store. If I ever visit America I will ensure I get to Middletown. Google tells me I can get there by bus from NY City, but unsure how long the trip is. Always great to hear those three amazing words, Grand Funk Railroad and Ruby has a great job.
Really enjoyed that Pete. Nice to see Steve's Rock Fantasy. Great pinball collection too. I'll pop in if I'm ever over the pond and in the area. It would be nice for us overseas subscribers to see more videos like this. You live in an area with fascinating history, natural beauty and thousands of things to see and do. Show us some more Pete.
I must say I was impressed with the game room. You don’t see a whole lot of pinball machines anymore and I used to love them. Good old Steve has got more than I’ve ever seen in one place. I love those old classics and so many with music themes! I will definitely visit that place some day. Road Trip!!!
It would be cool if we had one of those shops here where I live. Those were the places we all used to go to on the weekends back when I was in high school in the late 70s / early 80s.
Pete, thank you for sharing this! We would love to seee more music store videos, kudos! We’ve heard about this store for years from various friends. It’s great to see it finally 🎧🔥
Cool place with cool stuff! NICE collection of pins! I owned Creature from 1996 to 2019, and still own Whitewater. Coming up from Miami for a wedding in Newburgh next year, will have to stop by in person!
I would so love to visit Rock Fantasy and meet Steve. A so love great record stores when I was growing up and pinball so much love going to the arcades and down at the pool hall growing up playing pinball all day and shooting pool. It would be great to take a couple of days to visit a great place like that. Thanks always for the tour of it Pete.🎶
Pete, Steve is the F’n Man! I need to make a trip up to my old stomping grounds & visit Steve at the store! I miss being in New York. Norwalk is boring. I have figured out that CT is a drive through state.
Awesome store, I love it! I've always wanted to visit New York...someday perhaps. I've actually visited RF's website after watching one of your vids. I like take-a-tour videos like this, super fun to watch!
I'll probably never get to go there, but it was fun just seeing them walk around the store just the same, since they do mention it frequently after all.
For those of us that are 50+, the music/record store is something we grew up with and miss. We had a great one here in New Haven called Cutler’s and this one looks awesome
If I ever drive/fly to New York someday, I'll have Mr Keeler's store on my to do list! Cool video Pete, I always wondered what Steve's store looked like, I've heard you guys talk about it so much, my vision of what it looked like was pretty close to this video. Very nice!
Doctor Eddie Ganja here Pete great work Love The Sabbath shirt saw The Tour Black Sabbath and Night Ranger Fox Theatre Atlanta Georgia Love The Triumph Shirt kind of a great Forgotten Band Love your show Pete This one really stands out Keep Rocking Black Sabbath and The Guitar playing of Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple and Rainbow to me really got me into Heavy Music and great Guitar and Bill Ward and Ian Paice never got the real credit they deserve
I am from Middletown originally and went to this store a few times. I don't know if it's the same location as when I was there though. I remember it being pretty much pure metal. In fact I remember thinking it should be called Metal Fantasy. That was in the 80s and maybe early 90s. I guess at some point they decided to expand a bit.
I’m lucky to live far away, for the simple reason that I would spend way too much time and money in there!! That said, if I’m ever down that way, I’ll definitely stop in. Thanks for yet another great video Pete & Steve! Cheers 🤘🤘
If you have a store even a fraction like this in your area, do whatever you can to support it. You can do so much better than waste your money with Spotify.
That is the most incredible collection of rock 'n' roll pinball machines I've ever seen. Plus, Witchcraft's "Ghosts House" was playing in the background! Coolest record store ever? New Rush game, I want dat!
My hometown has couple of nice record stores, not like rock fantasy, but nice enough too want to be their long time, Ann Arbor Michigan has awesome record stores also!
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I want to see more of RUBY!!!
Digging the 'Pete Around Town' idea. Need more of this. Awesome shop too!
Greatest store ever!!! I've been going there since the store opened in 1985. I can not emphasize the importance of what Steve Keeler and Rock Fantasy has meant to the Hudson Valley music scene. Long live Rock Fantasy!!!
Definitely on my bucket list. Steve/ is a sincere gentleman! 👍💯
He seems like a very good dude yes !
@@LoLavilla82 👍💯
Wow!! Rock Fantasy is so cool, hot and spot-on rockin’ !!
🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁
Life is better with music.
Very cool Rock Fantasy store and facade design Pete. Very kind to share this video with SoT fans. Mr. Keeler is a great guy and this gives him great exposure for his store!
And as usual, Mark is the only one complaining about something meant to be real positive.
@@seaoftranquilityprog Hi Pete, I'm thinking of dropping by the fair outside Middletown this evening (via the store first!). Where will you guys be? Maybe can meet up with you and any of the Hudson Valley Squares. I have car and have to drive back so beer is out 😥 well maybe one... but be good to catch some of those bands too. Cheers!
Mike Phillips UK/Middle East SoT supporter
Rock Fantasy is one of the great shops of the country. I'm a music distributor, Music Millennium out west in Portland is one of the shops I worked at and it's fun to stay in the business and push records into stores. Compliments to Steve, and thanks for the current tour.
Possibly the most amazing record store ever 😍
I just subscribed to Steve's channel recently and watched a couple of the Rock Fantasy videos. Also asked myself... 'Wouldn't it be awesome to have some sort of recent tour in Rock Fantasy?" and B-O-O-M... There we have it. Fantastic idea of Pete recording his visit to the store.
Some people want to climb Everest I want to visit Rock Fantasy and meet the legend that is Stephen Keeler 🤘🤘🤘.
Steve, love the store. As a classic arcade and all pinball collector as well as music lover I can't wait to visit one of these days.
Pete thanks for showing it!
Steve has pins all around town too.
Thanks, Pete. Steve has a killer store. Thank you Steve, for keeping the music alive just like Pete. We need more record stores like yours. Excellent episode.
Cool shop Steve , thanks Pete for showing us !
What a terrific collection of pinball machines , looks like a great place to spend an afternoon. Really enjoyed this video.
What a treat seeing Steve's Rock Fantasy store!! Quite a store!!
Thank ypu Pete and Steve for sharing this with us. Hope to make it out there soon! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Dang that was too awesome. Definitely going there when I visit later this year. Awesome Pete and Steve. SOT IS THE BEST CHANNEL ON RUclips
Wow , what amazing place Steve . this just felt like home . Brought me back to my teen yrs in the 80s in Toronto every weekend hitting all the record stores and head shops . I hope one day i will be able to head down there and meet Steve and hangout and support the store.
Thank you Pete for doing this for us. 👍
Good on ya Steve. Keeping a business, especially a record store, running for 30 years is no small feat. \m/
Wow . If Only I lived in Middletown I d be there everyday. What an amazing Rock N Roll Collection of Pinball machines ! Dedicated Love of Rock N Roll Love it !
Keep rockin' on Steve! Buying online may be easier, but Steve will give the personal touch. You can't converse with a website, but go to Rock Fantasy and I'm sure Steve will talk your ear off! What you'll receive are suggestions and great ideas about bands you may not be familiar with. Best of luck to you Steve, and many more years of service in Middletown NY. Support your local shops.
DUDE!! I would love this store! Wish it was in my city. So happy to see a store like this still thriving with internet and streaming so prominent today. I used to LOVE walking into the record store as a kid!
I would love a record store like this in my town. Thanks Pete and Steve for giving an inside peek of an awesome record store. Hope to be there soon.
Pete, its great to see you supporting a local business and its obvious that you love the area where you grew up. Rock forever 🤟🏻
This is great! Proper record store run by Steve, a proper, proper music person and all with a bit of Pete sprinkled on top. More "out-and-about-with-Pete-Pardo'! Whoop Whoop!
My wife and I just went there for the first time a few months ago. Great place!
In Japan, almost “CD shop” was already closed.
My memorial shop was gone several years ago too.
I hope this great shop will be good!
That was an awesome tour, thanks for sharing. My wife and I are travel nurses and whatever city/town we are in I like to visit the local record stores. It's so cool to feel the different vibe each city has at their record shops. Hope to visit Rock Fantasy someday. Rock on.
Thank you for you do.
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I appreciate that. Rock on.
@@terrymtbnurse4760 I meant thank you for what you do. Lol
I absolutely have to go there one day, looks like paradise to me and i love Steve, i would love to meet him.
Really great to see the shop that we hear so much about
Enjoyed this video 📹. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧 👍
I totally forgot about this place, but now my memory of it has been jogged. I remember my cousin who grew up outside of Middletown taking me there once, maybe thirty years ago or so. I remember buying a Gretchen Goes To Nebraska tee there. The place reminded me of a couple of shops that used to be on W 8th St. in Manhattan long ago, but which have been gone for many years now, sadly. Now that my parents live up there, I need to check the place out next time go up to visit.
I worked close to the town in 1987 and 1992, so I must have visited, though can't remember. I may be in the area again soon, I may pay these guys a visit!
So cool!!! Would love to see more "on location" soooo fun!!! What a great group of people 👏
Wow!! Two of my favourite things there. Vinyl records and pinball machines. I could probably spend a whole day in there easily. Those Elvis pinball machines are everywhere. LOL Thanks for sharing.
Record stores always felt like home. But I could retire at Rock Fantasy!
Great video,Pete!
Thanks Pete, very cool idea, If Im correct, It's been years since you made a video at Rock Fantasy. I would love to come down and visit for sure if I had the chance and would love to meet Steve and other SOT people ! All right, cheers everyone, stay safe !
Great job with the store Steve! Thanks for doing the walk through vid Pete!
Great looking store! I love all those black light posters and other memorabilia on display. Will definitely visit Rock Fantasy next time I take a trip down thru the Hudson Valley.
Amazing video.Brings me a lot of memories.I miss these music stores.Spent so much time in these stores in my country.
Hell Yeah, was hoping to see the store I hear about so often. Very very cool.
Cool store. If I ever visit America I will ensure I get to Middletown. Google tells me I can get there by bus from NY City, but unsure how long the trip is. Always great to hear those three amazing words, Grand Funk Railroad and Ruby has a great job.
Really enjoyed that Pete. Nice to see Steve's Rock Fantasy. Great pinball collection too. I'll pop in if I'm ever over the pond and in the area. It would be nice for us overseas subscribers to see more videos like this. You live in an area with fascinating history, natural beauty and thousands of things to see and do. Show us some more Pete.
Pete Pardo Superstar!!!
Woo..I wish we had a store like this in India. Awesome place! Thanks a bunch for the tour Pete & Steve. Love from across the world ❤️
So awesome. My first stop if i ever get to visit.
Thanks Pete for the awesome video. I could spend hours in Steve's store especially in the Pinball room.
Thank you, Pete, for posting this.
I must say I was impressed with the game room. You don’t see a whole lot of pinball machines anymore and I used to love them. Good old Steve has got more than I’ve ever seen in one place. I love those old classics and so many with music themes! I will definitely visit that place some day. Road Trip!!!
Nice to see Steve's store 👌
Hair looks great Pete 👍
It would be cool if we had one of those shops here where I live. Those were the places we all used to go to on the weekends back when I was in high school in the late 70s / early 80s.
Pete, thank you for sharing this! We would love to seee more music store videos, kudos! We’ve heard about this store for years from various friends. It’s great to see it finally 🎧🔥
I wasn't expecting this video but I am glad that we got to see Steve Keeler on his turf!
Cool place with cool stuff! NICE collection of pins! I owned Creature from 1996 to 2019, and still own Whitewater. Coming up from Miami for a wedding in Newburgh next year, will have to stop by in person!
I would so love to visit Rock Fantasy and meet Steve. A so love great record stores when I was growing up and pinball so much love going to the arcades and down at the pool hall growing up playing pinball all day and shooting pool. It would be great to take a couple of days to visit a great place like that. Thanks always for the tour of it Pete.🎶
Pete, Steve is the F’n Man! I need to make a trip up to my old stomping grounds & visit Steve at the store! I miss being in New York. Norwalk is boring. I have figured out that CT is a drive through state.
Awesome store Steve! I'm glad Pete returns the favor of you helping with his channel.
THANKS Pete and Steve for the tour awesome store
Those machines are wonderful
I wish there was something like this in the UK. Great store and I could spend hours in there. Keep up the good work Steve 🤘🏻
Cool store they have it all. Store like that we don`t see every day.!!!!! Very Cool video Pete.
Thanks a lot for this video.(Steve a Killer Store)
Awesome store, I love it! I've always wanted to visit New York...someday perhaps. I've actually visited RF's website after watching one of your vids. I like take-a-tour videos like this, super fun to watch!
I'll probably never get to go there, but it was fun just seeing them walk around the store just the same, since they do mention it frequently after all.
For those of us that are 50+, the music/record store is something we grew up with and miss. We had a great one here in New Haven called Cutler’s and this one looks awesome
If I ever drive/fly to New York someday, I'll have Mr Keeler's store on my to do list! Cool video Pete, I always wondered what Steve's store looked like, I've heard you guys talk about it so much, my vision of what it looked like was pretty close to this video. Very nice!
If u follow Steve's channel which is also very good u will see he has done a few walk throughs of his store.
@@martymartin2894 Yeah I'm subscribed over there too, haven't seen the ones with the store in them though, I'll have to take a look sometime. Thanks.
That's one awesome store. Wish we had something like it here in Australia. Ty for showing his store
Impressive pinball collection! Music and pins! Wish I had a store like that near me.
Doctor Eddie Ganja here Pete great work Love The Sabbath shirt saw The Tour Black Sabbath and Night Ranger Fox Theatre Atlanta Georgia Love The Triumph Shirt kind of a great Forgotten Band Love your show Pete This one really stands out Keep Rocking Black Sabbath and The Guitar playing of Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple and Rainbow to me really got me into Heavy Music and great Guitar and Bill Ward and Ian Paice never got the real credit they deserve
thanks for sharing steve . also pete as well . have a nice day
What a kick ass place! Thanks for sharing!
My brother lives in mt. tremper New York .next time I visit him i m going to rock fantasy !
Thanks Pete heard so much about the store so good to see it all at long last 🤘🤘🤘🤘.
New Kreator on the shelf! A lot of good stuff! I will come by one day for sure!
Awesome store Steve. I’m just east of Toronto so a field trip is not out of the question. Thanks for posting this.
What an amazing store!
Awesome store! BRAVO!
Recent viewer, cool seeing you out and about Pete, best wishes.
I am from Middletown originally and went to this store a few times. I don't know if it's the same location as when I was there though. I remember it being pretty much pure metal. In fact I remember thinking it should be called Metal Fantasy. That was in the 80s and maybe early 90s. I guess at some point they decided to expand a bit.
Awesome episode! Thanks for the virtual tour.
I’m lucky to live far away, for the simple reason that I would spend way too much time and money in there!!
That said, if I’m ever down that way, I’ll definitely stop in. Thanks for yet another great video Pete & Steve!
Cheers 🤘🤘
Wow really nice!...love the RUSH pinball machine
Wow Pete what a record store I don't think I would ever find one like that here in the UK.
Awesome! Cheers!!
Great place i've been there a couple of times so much to see and do and buy 🤘😎🤘
Recently visited the Instagram page. Man! Completely blown away!
Amazing place!!!!!😎….it’s a few miles from me in Green Bay, Wisconsin…….it’s definitely on my list though guys……
Awesome place, Steve! 🍺🍺🤘
If you have a store even a fraction like this in your area, do whatever you can to support it. You can do so much better than waste your money with Spotify.
Could not agree more!! 💯🤘
Agreed!!
Support your local record store.
Totally agree.
Absolutely🤘
Love the shirt Steve \m/
Fun episode...
Awesome store. Would love to visit sometime.
Agreed and sad to have to say it - support your local record store wherever you are..so many gone now. Keep good music alive in your downtown stores❤️
That is the most incredible collection of rock 'n' roll pinball machines I've ever seen. Plus, Witchcraft's "Ghosts House" was playing in the background! Coolest record store ever? New Rush game, I want dat!
Awesomeness!!! Thank you for sharing!! Next time I play Brian’s Backyard BBQ party up there I’ll have to visit his store! SUPER COOL!!!😁🎸🎶🎵😎🤘🎶
Every town should have a store like this!
Oh man, would love to have a shop like this here where I live (in Germany)!! Just awesome!
beautiful, I'd like to be there!
What a terrific store. That’s what proper record shops used to be like, without the impressive Pinball machines. Enjoyed the quick tour.
this was a cool video! i love a great local music store.
Support your local music stores, not many left.
Nice tour!
My hometown has couple of nice record stores, not like rock fantasy, but nice enough too want to be their long time, Ann Arbor Michigan has awesome record stores also!
Hey Pete , congrats , fight the good fight!
The pinball machines were very cool!?..What a collection!
This looks like a worth to visit in the future!