a family relationship here,
and we all make the most out
of our time spent together,
music or no music, but usu-
ally there’s music. I would
not be opposed to living
on a compound with these
people. We’ve, cooked meals
together, slept on floors, not
slept at all, built fires, all that
good stuff.
I was aware of Joe years be-
fore we ever met. We’re both
from Ocean County and my
younger brother showed me
some of Joe’s music when
they were teenagers. I think
he was going as Makoveskus
at the time, maybe Spiral
Stairs. When I moved back
from New York and started to
play in Asbury Park regularly
again, we got billed at the
Watermark with Joe’s band
at the time, Thomas Wesley
Stern. Turned out we had a
bunch of mutual friends from
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back home, and we’ve been in each
other’s orbits ever since.
I think Joe introduced me to Alan one
night in Asbury, but it was in Montclair
that we really got to know one an-
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