A must-listen for fans of 80s rock, classic rock history, Jersey Shore music, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and the legendary Asbury Park music scene.
Rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bobby Bandiera joins Plot Twist Radio for a candid conversation about the legendary Jersey Shore music scene, life on the road, and the unforgettable artists he’s worked beside throughout his career.
From performing alongside Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, and Southside Johnny to sharing stories about Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and The Stone Pony, Bobby takes listeners deep inside one of the most iconic music communities in rock history.
In this episode, Bobby discusses:
🎸 The surprise return of Southside Johnny to the stage
🎸 What it was really like playing with Bruce Springsteen
🎸 Touring stories with Bon Jovi and legendary musicians
🎸 The magic of The Stone Pony and the Asbury Park music scene
🎸 Wild live show moments and unforgettable crowds
🎸 His favorite guitars and musical influences
🎸 Why classic rock still connects with audiences around the world
If you love classic rock, music history, live performance stories, Jersey Shore music culture, or behind-the-scenes conversations with legendary musicians, this episode is for you.
Listen now to Plot Twist Radio.
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Welcome to Plot Twist Radio, the show where creativity,
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storytelling and the unpredictable path of the
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creative life all collide. I'm your host, Aaron Egnatz.
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Hi, Bobby, Welcome to PLOT TWIST Radio.
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Hello. Aaron, how are you?
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I'm wonderful. How about yourself?
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Very good. Thank you.
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Right before we get going, can you introduce yourself to the
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audience? My name is Bobby Bandiera and
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I've been playing guitar and singing since I was 13 years
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old. God, nobody likes me.
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But somehow I have a career and I'm I'm happy about it.
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I'm doing well. I'm in my later years, so these
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days I'm only working one and two nights a week, but I'm
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enjoying it. Local bars and all that stuff.
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My friend Southside Johnny joined me last night.
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He came in, He lives about seven blocks from where I work and I
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live 7 blocks the other way. And we don't really see each
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other. We're that close.
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But he came out last night and, and it's a place called the
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Elbow Room in Bradley Beach. And I got him up.
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I finally got him out of his, his doldrums.
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He's kind of retired, you know, come on, just come out and sing
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a song here and there. So he did last night.
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It was fun. It was the audience was was
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pretty startled and had a good time.
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I thought, I thought it didn't feel like the old times
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immediately once he was back up there with you.
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Yeah, it did. It Did you know?
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God bless him, God bless us. We've been through everything
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imaginable as far as music is concerned, but travelling,
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writing, trying to get a hit song and all that stuff.
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And we look, I think I look back on my career and I think
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everything was pretty hunky Dory.
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And I think he feels the same way.
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You know, everybody wants to be as as successful as our other
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friends from the same area, but not that doesn't always happen
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that way, you know, but I'm happy with my my life to waits.
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It's gone So and my career in music.
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I think it's an. Excellent one.
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Yeah, it's it's very impressive. Anyway, certainly nice out,
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isn't it? Well, I'm in the Chicago area
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and it's not nice. It's.
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Cold. It's not nice out there.
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No. It's really nice out here today.
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I've been to Chicago a million times and, and man, it's when it
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gets cold in Chicago. It's ungodly.
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Just one of those things. You travel and you see different
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parts of the the world, different parts of the country
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you live in and you see stuff like that and you're like, I
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want to go home. I think I'm better off going
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home New Jersey. But I love Chicago.
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I love Chicago. It depends on the day for me.
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Are you from there? Originally, no.
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I'm originally from Georgia so Chicago is definitely too cold
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for me. Yes, Yeah, Georgia.
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Where in Georgia? Right outside of Atlanta, yeah.
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I've played there a bunch over the years.
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It's a growing area, it really is.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've played there a bunch,
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played Chicago a million times, Park Place Theatre of the
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Victoria Theatre. I don't know if it's still
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there. It is, yes.
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OK, cool. Oh yeah, the Victoria is, you
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know, it's legendary. That's some of the best.
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Paid off. You go out to the Blues bars.
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The Kingston Mines was a place I used to go all the time out
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there. Yeah.
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And I've never, I never made it the buddy guy's place, although
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I would like to have, and maybe I still will.
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Maybe I'll just drive out to do that.
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Why not? I'll meet you for a for a
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sarsaparilla. Let's do it I.
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Love it. So as you were just saying,
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you're in the Jersey area, the Jersey Shore, that that is quite
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the music scene. What do you think people outside
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of the Jersey music scene don't understand about the bond you
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guys have? I don't know that they, they
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don't understand the bond. I mean, because over the years
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there, there have been places that have become famous on the
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map from whatever band was was doing great at the time, The
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Doors in LA and Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco and
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Bruce Springsteen from New Jersey.
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I, I think it's been viewed by most of the, the world because
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last night I'm working in Bradley Beach, Johnny pops in.
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But before I, I, I got started playing the owner system.
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There's people here from Tennessee and from Sweden to see
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you. I said that's a good thing, tell
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them to come on in, and I didn't.
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I can't say that I recognized either one of them, but it was
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fun. There had been so many shows,
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these guys from Sweden being me, being over there with Southside,
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but it's they, they view it as a Mecca when they come as we park.
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Oh my God, That's where everybody used to play and
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that's where Bruce came out of and Southside, Johnny's come out
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of there and we, we need to go there at some point.
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And it's, it's great because it's on the beach and we'll,
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we'll get rooms and spend a couple of weeks.
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I don't know if anybody could do that anymore in this economy.
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These these guys are here. They, they were there at the
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club last night. It was pretty, pretty funny to
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see guys from out of town. But you know, I see it all the
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time. You know, I don't, I'm not
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playing as much locally as I used to because I'm kind of
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rounding 3rd. But you know, I, I still see
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them. They, they still come out.
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It's, it's amazing some people are here from Spain, people are
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here from England, people here hear from Scandinavia.
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It's great. It's great to to to to know that
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you still kind of revered in the world of music by, by people,
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you know, that want to be involved in a, in a place where
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some great things have happened. You know, and, and that's not
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just New Jersey, like I said, LA, Chicago, you know, but I
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think they think of it as as one of those places that that the
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Mecca of, of music and, and, and some respect.
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And I think they think of New Jersey.
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I don't know, they think of me that way.
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They start thinking New Jersey that way.
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The stone ponies right down the street from where I live.
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Every everybody that you've heard of in the last 30 or 40
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years has been through that place.
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Elvis Costello cheap trick. I don't know if many, many,
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many, many bands have come through.
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So I've been part of that scene the whole time.
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Rubbed elves up elbows with some of some people I regard as
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friends. Elvis Costello I I I met a a
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couple of times, but I worked with the let me well, this Dave
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Edmonds I worked with. He played at the Pony and when I
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played with him long time ago now, probably 40 years or more,
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actually 50s and 40s, let's say 45 years.
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Anyway, yeah, this is this is the place.
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People, people know it around the world come to visit.
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It got a beach. It's got great pizza.
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So sausages and Peppers. So does Chicago, by the way.
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We. Yes, very.
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Different BBQ, yeah. Yeah, I haven't been to Jersey
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in a while. I need to get back there.
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I love it. I I just love hanging out there.
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It's one of my favorite places, believe it or not.
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I I. People that don't live near the
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shore, you know, or the coast, I should say it, it's an
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attraction to, to, to come and hang out, you know, on the
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Jersey Shore. It's not, you know, the southern
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border of France or, or, or Italy, but but it's right.
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But it's it's great, yeah. Yeah, it is.
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It's fun. I love it there.
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I I've always had a great time there.
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But you know, it's been a while. I'm going to have to get out
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there. So you obviously played with
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some very big names. What is it like playing with
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people like Bon Jovi and Springsteen and people along
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that line? Like I was trying to say before
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living here, it's inevitable that you may rub elbows with
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some of your friends that that you hold in high esteem.
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I don't know about Bon Jovi, but Bruce, it's certainly a but I
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had some good times with John. We had some good times together,
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Haviland, touring, all that kind of stuff.
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And then not so good times. But it's that way with any job.
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I don't look like to look at his job.
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I like to look at his his career, but it it sometimes
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boils down to just being a job. Bruce on the other hand, I never
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worked for him in the the capacity that I was in his band
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ever. But we're friends and he's got
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he's had kids in school the last 2530 years.
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So what he do, you know, he's been up to play with me at the
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Stone Pony a million times, Bruce.
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So that was a lot of fun and and hanging out, becoming friends.
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Come to Patty's birthday party. You're not doing anything
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Friday. Come up to the Prudential Center
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in Newark and and see the band and blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah. So friends, you know, not dinner
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friends by any stretch of the match, but friends.
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So he would do these fundraisers for whatever school his kids
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were in at the time in the last 25 years, grammar school, high
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school, college, Boston College. And we'll raise some money.
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We'll do it at the Pony. Put a band together for me.
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I I'll handle that, don't worry. Give me the give me the song
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list that you want to do, he says.
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Well, show me what you got too. That, that you play that, that
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people have fun with whatever song it is, you know, and aside
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from doing Springsteen songs, I don't want to do all Springsteen
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songs. I, I am Bruce Springsteen.
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I'm kind of tired of doing all spring, Bruce Springsteen songs.
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That's all right. I'll send you a list.
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He looked down it and he says, ah, we'll do Springsteen songs.
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I said, OK, OK, fair enough. I'm your list and I'll have the
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band learn them and we'll, we'll, we'll pull it together
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and do it. I must have done 7 or 8 of them
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with them over the years. He was very kind enough last
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time, but just got to be 5 years now at the Stone Pony fundraiser
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for Boston College. And he he actually enjoyed what
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I put together band wise because the band was really good and he
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was like, let me break it down. Coming to soundcheck Bruce.
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All right, let's see what we got with the band.
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We do a sound check 3 hours before the show.
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We do the first song on the list, Bob after Bob, I'm
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impressed. I was like, OK, glad, glad you
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like it. Do the second song, Bob.
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I'm impressed. I'm like, OK, great, great.
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I'm glad you like it. Third song, Bob, I don't know
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he's breaking my onions or what, but it was pretty funny.
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He liked it. So what he did was people that
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were filming it with their phones and all he made a a
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compilation video and I guess it's about 3 or 4 songs in the
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video of what we did that night. And I, I was really surprised he
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doesn't he doesn't do that for anybody.
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I mean, not that I'm special, I mean, but it was real.
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I was grateful, I was really grateful that he he went so far
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as to put something together because he thought it was, it
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was good enough to put it out on YouTube and it, it was fun, fun
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to see that. Oh, I can imagine.
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And like I said, playing with Bon Jovi was great.
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It was fun at its downside. But Southside, I was with
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Southside for 26 years. We had our ups and downs.
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Well, you're going to have your ups and downs being in a band.
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It's like being married. You can't be happy every day,
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every week, every month and every year.
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You know, you do the best you can, but something's going to
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happen In any case, We're we've end up, ended up good friends
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and, and, and we, we've been good friends and, and that's a
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good thing. And I worked with Dave Edmonds,
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worked with Graham Parker over the years.
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Yeah, it's been a it's been a fun ride.
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I look back and I'm like pretty good, pretty good it.
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Sounds like a fun, fun little trip there.
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Yeah, yeah. Over the years, I mean, touring
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with Dave Edmonds, touring with really do much touring with
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Graham Parker. We played, I remember playing
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the Conan O'Brien show with him and we did a few clubs in the
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area. We did New York.
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I think we did the pony too, actually.
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The stone pony right in my backyard.
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Who else? Darlene Love is a good friend of
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mine. You know, when she comes to
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town, I try and go by to say hello.
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Not necessarily to get up and sing or play, just to say hello.
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Gary Bonds is a good friend of mine.
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He'll call me guitar player. Can't make it this weekend, can
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you? Can you fill in?
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I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then raising money over the
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years I've. I've been pretty adamant about
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trying to give back since my son is, is afflicted with
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schizophrenia. So I try and do the best I can
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to give back. And when I I've done some
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fundraisers at the Cal Basie Theatre in Red Bank that Bruce
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has attended and and Gary Bonds at Southside without hesitation.
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Yeah, yeah, I'll come by, I'll come by.
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So they were fun moments in my life.
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It was a fun ride the whole time, all good.
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That sounds amazing. It really does.
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And you know, that kind of music, it it's just it lasts.
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And I think that's why so many people are still flocking and
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seeing, you know, Bruce Springsteen and guys, you know,
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coming from all over the world to see you because that that's
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real music. And I, I miss that, you know, I
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miss. I have to agree with you.
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It is real music and I'm proud of it.
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I mean, there's crap coming out from everywhere, even around
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where I live. It's like, Oh my God, don't quit
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your day job. But I'm happy and proud to say
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that I've been involved and associated with some some great
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music and great artists. It sounds like it, so I'm gonna
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ask you a couple of easy questions. 1st All right, I used
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to. I used to dye my hair.
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I don't anymore. Go ahead.
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I still do OK. Loudest crowd you ever played
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for? The wildest crowd?
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Yes, the wildest crowd I ever played for.
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Good Lord. There've been some.
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There've been some At the Pony. In 1981, I was playing with a
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band called Cats on a Smooth Surface was the name of the band
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at the Stone Pony. And I was playing there every
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Sunday for probably two to three years by that point.
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And Bruce would come up every Sunday.
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The the summer of 81. It was it was electric.
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It was electric. We're a bar band, you know, I
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mean, we're doing cover songs, maybe a few originals here and
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there. And Bruce is like, wow, you guys
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are great. Well, you mind if I come up?
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I said, who are you? He says, I'm Bruce.
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I said I'm Bob, come on up. He's he had come up and the, the
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whole room, 657 hundred people were up against the stage.
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So that's it was it was wild to to vision and and be part of the
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electricity that was in the room.
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And it was probably one of the wildest things I, I remember
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from the stage, although I've played on stages across the
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world to anywhere from 200 to 150 people.
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But that was what stands out in my mind is, is probably the wild
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some of the wildest times. The the electricity that that
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was in the room when when Bruce would come and join us and play
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people. They love him here.
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Oh yeah. They love him in a lot of
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places. I know his politics doesn't
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agree with everybody. I agree with his politics.
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But we won't go there. They were the Knights.
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They were the Knights. There was some quirky situations
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over the years. I remember playing in Atlantic
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City on the beach in the summer with Southside, and I brought my
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wife and kids. So they're on blankets on the
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beach, my wife and kids. And we're up there playing and
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my wife comes up to the stage and there's a girl in a bikini
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that takes her top off in front of me.
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And I was like, oh, I'm in trouble already.
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I know I'm in trouble. I didn't even do anything.
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I'm in trouble. And sure enough, uh huh.
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Is this what happens? I was like, yeah, this is what
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happens. In any case, that's another wild
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moment, but not as wild as the electricity with Bruce.
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But. Hey, could see where that would
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get you in trouble. So there's a couple of wild
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times in the world of music. Bob Bandiera.
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Love it. So do you have like a favorite
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guitar? My husband told me to ask this
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question. I know nothing about music, but
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he's a guitar guy. And he said, oh, is that right?
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Yeah, a favorite guitar. Yeah.
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I go in spurts. I've got Gibson's, Fenders,
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Gretch's, guitar companies, boutique guitar companies.
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Sometimes I'll play the Fenders for a month, month and a half.
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Sometimes I'll play the Gibson's for a month and 1/2 All is
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probably my favorite guitar out of all the guitars.
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Fenders right up there with it. I mean a Telecaster, you can't
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beat it, you know. So Les Paul in a Telecaster are
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are my main go to my main go to guitars.
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So last question, one musician who made you nervous to play
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with? Nervous to play with.
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I had the good fortune of playing at the White House
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twice, and it was a fundraiser for the Special Olympics that
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Eunice Shriver had spearheaded and her, she, her sons were
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running it at the time. I don't think she was well
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enough to be part of it at the time.
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But what, what was the question? Again, I'm sorry I'm I'm a
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little stoned from last night's gummy.
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You're you're fine. I I get like that.
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It's fine. It's fine.
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What was 1 musician who made you nervous?
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So here we are at the White House and we're going to put the
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show together. We put the show together
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starting up here in New York, and we flew down to DC.
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Eric Clapton was on the show. And I was like, cool, I'm gonna
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get to meet Eric Clapton. This is great.
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Sheryl Crow was on the show. Tracy Chapman was on the show.
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Run DMC was on the show. Anyway, there's a hospitality
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room behind behind the stage. The show is going to be
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televised on a Wednesday night. Wednesday is the dress rehearsal
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show. The day before Tuesday, we were
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ready to start rehearsing. Everybody that was involved,
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Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, blah blah blah blah blah.
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So everybody's dressed down. Although we're playing the songs
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like they need to be played and Jump Bon Bon Jovi was part of
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the show as well. So here I am in the hospitality
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room, coffee and Donuts and sandwiches blah blah blah blah
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blah. I look up and the whole band is
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gone. Like, oh shit, I I got to get on
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stage. Everybody's went up the stage to
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rehearse. So I look up and Eric Clapton's
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getting coffee at the table and I said, hey, Eric.
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He looked turned around and gave me like one of these.
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Didn't say anything. OK, OK.
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Then just go to the stage, pick your guitar up and get and get
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going. Here.
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Let's let's have music. So the first song was please
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come home for Christmas. Bells will be ringing.
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I had a guitar solo in it. The second song, this was we
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were doing this, the song list right from top to bottom was
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Eric Clapton. He did Christmas Theories by
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Freddie King. In any case, after the first
00:21:44
song was over, he's standing there in the wings waiting to
00:21:47
come on to play his song and he comes over to me.
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He says, hey, I said yo, hey, yo.
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He says, is this the order of the, the the songs we're
00:21:58
actually doing the, the order. I said, yeah, yeah.
00:22:01
He says, well, how the fuck am I supposed to follow that?
00:22:04
Oh, excuse my French. How the hell am I supposed to
00:22:07
follow that? I was like, why is and the piano
00:22:10
players like I, I, I yeah, yeah. I said I learned how to play
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guitar sitting in my basement listening to your records.
00:22:18
And he looked at me. He goes, I have bullshit.
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He plugged in and we played, but that was pretty.
00:22:23
I was pretty much in awe. Other time, Southside's road
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manager was also working Bob Dylan, and he was at the Beacon
00:22:33
Theatre in Manhattan. Bob Dylan, he says, are you off
00:22:36
that night? I said, yeah.
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He says, come on up. I said OK, So I go up to the
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show and before, you know, like an hour, 2 hours before the
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show, Bob's in his dressing room and Herb, the guy who invited me
00:22:51
to the show, says come on, I'll take you in to meet him.
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I said no, I've heard stories. He says come on, it's it'll be a
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piece of cake. I said great.
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So we go in. He says Bob, this is my friend
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Bob. He puts the newspaper down and
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he does the same thing Eric did. That was it.
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No words came out of his mouth. Oh, nice to meet you.
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OK, get the fuck out. All right, Excuse me the hell
00:23:17
out. Anyway, those were a couple of
00:23:20
situations where I was pretty much in awe.
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Who else was I in awe of? There's not a lot that I'm in
00:23:26
awe of. I'm better than all of them.
00:23:28
There you go. But there's a couple a couple of
00:23:31
the couple of instances. Those are some pretty, pretty
00:23:34
big games. Yeah, yeah, oh, Tom Petty.
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Tom Petty was on one of the Christmas shows.
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Asshole. Really.
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So we're back in that same hospitality room.
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This is the second time I did it.
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Who was on that show? B.B.
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King, Tom Petty? I can't remember who else was on
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it. Sheryl Crow was on that again.
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In any case, we're sharing a hospitality room.
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All the artists and band members are in the same area.
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Small area, maybe hold 30 people.
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So there were 25 people in the room.
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It was crowded. And I said, hey, how you doing,
00:24:05
Tom? Yes.
00:24:09
What he did, he didn't want to talk.
00:24:10
I was like, OK, I'm out here to talk.
00:24:13
I'm here to work, you know, But it was kind of an awkward
00:24:17
moment. But that's, you know, they say
00:24:20
you don't want to meet your the people that you're in awe of.
00:24:23
I've heard that quite a few. Times they say that you don't
00:24:25
want to meet them in any case. Interesting though, and Tom
00:24:29
Petty, he was one of those that I was always sad I didn't get to
00:24:32
see in concert. But.
00:24:34
You missed a good one. Yeah.
00:24:36
You missed a good one. He was great.
00:24:39
Yeah, I'm trying to catch all of the ones now, you know, as
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they're touring. Yeah, before they die too.
00:24:46
Pretty much before they die or I die.
00:24:48
So before somebody dies. So we'll see if I can catch
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someone. Where can the audience find you?
00:24:54
You said that you perform a couple of nights a week, you
00:24:57
said. I'm on Facebook, so anybody that
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needs to know my schedule looks on Facebook and I'm I'm not.
00:25:08
I'm only working one or two places in the last couple of
00:25:13
years, last 5-6 years, where I used to work three and four
00:25:18
nights a week. But I don't, I don't want to
00:25:20
work three and four nights a week anymore.
00:25:23
No, I'm OK with one and two nights a week.
00:25:25
There's a place in Bradley Beach called the Elbow Room and
00:25:27
there's a place in Rumson called Barnacle Bills.
00:25:30
So those two places are the places that I've been working in
00:25:33
the last few years. Awesome.
00:25:37
Well, I hope to get out there and see you sometime because if
00:25:39
you do. If you do, send me a text and
00:25:44
I'll meet you, you and your husband for a beer.
00:25:46
Sounds good. Yeah.
00:25:47
For me, thank you so much for joining me.
00:25:49
I love this. You're very welcome, darling.
00:25:52
A huge thank you to Bobby for joining me today.
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