Phil Robinson and Jason Vitelli mark 20 years together with music, memories and haircuts in Greenwich Village

Jason Vitelli and Phil Robinson were looking for a way to celebrate playing together for 20 years, but the venue where they originally performed, The Baggot Inn in Greenwich Village, is long gone. So why not play at a place of historical importance where they’ve played many times before, The Bitter End?  And as long as you’ve got a sold-out crowd of fans, friends and family, why not get a haircut on stage? Robinson, who was raised in Jersey City (with frequent sojourns to Prague, where his mother hails from), “grew up obsessed with Bruce Springsteen”. He met Vitelli pretty quickly, after moving to NYC in 2003, as a result of an ad he ran on meetup.com. “We immediately hit it off, recounts Robinson. “We both happened to have our guitars with us, so when all the other people went home, Jason and I went down to the subway stop, and we just started jamming on each other's songs”.  The show on Friday was on the actual anniversary of their first show together in 2006. The set ran from an