How come?
Too much drama. Too many per-
sonality clashes. Too many egos
honestly. I love to play music …
but I’d rather get that call that
says, ‘Hey, can you fill in for this
guy tonight?’ There’s no pressure
on me to make sure I do every-
thing 110 percent right.
I did four gigs in one day. I
started at the Stone Pony with
Laura Crisci, then I went over to
the Colts Neck Rock Fest and
played with this band called The
Itch. I’d never met the guys. I had
to use Facebook photos to try
to find them in the crowd. We
never practiced. Did that. Then
I went over in Spotswood, the
Cambridge Inn, they were hav-
ing a 15th anniversary party, so I
was fooling around over there a
little bit. Then I came home, and I
took my shoes off, and I got a call,
‘Hey, our drummer didn’t show
up. Can you come down?’
Why do the media stuff when you
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could be playing more gigs and
making more money as a musician
than as a media person because
it doesn’t pay? What is about the
media thing that makes taking
fewer gigs worthwhile, especially
given the fact that music gigs pay
and the media gigs don’t?
I am in one band called Boss Ra-
dio AM Gold, BRAG. What we do
is recreate an AM radio broadcast
with a live band using the music
from ’66 to ’76. And I’m the radio
voice. We have three drummers
in the band. We have a drummer
on the kit. We have another drum-
mer who plays percussion but also
plays guitar. And we have myself
on percussion, and I’m the radio
voice. I’m the (disc jockey voice
kicks in), ‘Boss jock from BRAG ra-
dio.’ We go from one song into the
next, boom, boom, boom, boom.
At some gigs, we have a 30-foot
video screen, where we have
videos that correspond with the
songs. We do the commercials,
the jingles. We have all that stuff.
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