So you ’ re paying your dues . Right . John Pfeiffer ( of The Aquarian Weekly ) wrote something very nice about me . He said , ‘ Coleman has no agenda .’ And he ’ s 100 percent right . When I was 16 , my band , Valhalla , was in an unsigned band contest on WPST in 1979 . I was at a church carnival , and this girl I went to school with said , ‘ Listen . Come here .’ And she drags me over . My band was on the radio ! I got goosebumps from head to toe . I was like , ‘ Are you kidding me ?’ I remember that feeling , and I thought to me myself , if I could ever give another band that feeling that I had … which is how the radio show was born . And being a musician … I went through a brutal divorce . And her lawyer stand up , holds up a copy of the Trentonian , and says , ‘ See , he writes for this paper , and he admits that he ’ s a drummer and plays on weekends . Where ’ s that income on his sheet ?!’ Now I worked with a lot of original artists . So the judge says , ‘ Is this true ?’ And I said , ‘ Yes .’ He said , ‘ How much have you made so far
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol . 4 No . 5 INDEX
So you ’ re paying your dues . Right . John Pfeiffer ( of The Aquarian Weekly ) wrote something very nice about me . He said , ‘ Coleman has no agenda .’ And he ’ s 100 percent right . When I was 16 , my band , Valhalla , was in an unsigned band contest on WPST in 1979 . I was at a church carnival , and this girl I went to school with said , ‘ Listen . Come here .’ And she drags me over . My band was on the radio ! I got goosebumps from head to toe . I was like , ‘ Are you kidding me ?’ I remember that feeling , and I thought to me myself , if I could ever give another band that feeling that I had … which is how the radio show was born . And being a musician … I went through a brutal divorce . And her lawyer stand up , holds up a copy of the Trentonian , and says , ‘ See , he writes for this paper , and he admits that he ’ s a drummer and plays on weekends . Where ’ s that income on his sheet ?!’ Now I worked with a lot of original artists . So the judge says , ‘ Is this true ?’ And I said , ‘ Yes .’ He said , ‘ How much have you made so far
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