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Here's my favorite. I love watching the drummer in this. Headphones on, eyes closed, he never pays one bit of attention to what anyone else is doing. He might be drumming to some other song for all we know. But he never misses a beat, and if you're not keeping up, that's your problem, not his. He's a freakin' machine. I love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZDqLOXDO4

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Its the drummers job to "drive the bus", he should be a human metronome for the others. And when you are on stage your monitors (headphones, fallback speakers or midi ) are your lifeline, you can't hear yourself.

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I once had drinks with Debra Harry . She's from Lincroft. NJ and her family owned the Lincroft Inn. My first apartment was in Lincroft and was originally maids quarters in an old estate. My landlord was a local entrepreneur and into the music scene. You'd come home and you never knew who would be there!

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Its the drummers job to "drive the bus", he should be a human metronome for the others. And when you are on stage your monitors (headphones, fallback speakers or midi ) are your lifeline, you can't hear yourself.

Well this guy is sure doing that. He's a drumbot, ferpissake! LOVE him!

On the other hand, have you ever taken notice of Kid Rock's drummer? Don't know her name but she's a large Black woman. When she is drumming, she looks like she is having the time of her life. I swear, I have never seen another human being having as much pure FUN at work as that woman. She is an inspiration and a pure joy to watch. I love her, too! B)

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Here's my favorite. I love watching the drummer in this. Headphones on, eyes closed, he never pays one bit of attention to what anyone else is doing. He might be drumming to some other song for all we know. But he never misses a beat, and if you're not keeping up, that's your problem, not his. He's a freakin' machine. I love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZDqLOXDO4

He may be listening to a "click track".

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I once had drinks with Debra Harry . She's from Lincroft. NJ and her family owned the Lincroft Inn.

Sinatra was from Hoboken, did you ever hang with him?

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Sinatra was from Hoboken, did you ever hang with him?

Nothing like a bit of sarcasm? But since you asked.. my grandfather grew up in Hoboken and knew Frank when he sang in local bars, way before he was famous. My grandfather would be over 100 today.

Living in Monmouth County NJ, which is the epicenter of the Asbury Park music scene we had access to a lot of icons back when they were up and coming. The guy I rented from was hooked into the music scene and knew a lot of people. So it wasn't unusual to come home and find interesting folks at his house. When Melanie was playing the Garden State Arts Center, I met her at the house. In fact the previous occupant of my apartment left to tour with the Ian Hunter Band in 1979 when they hit with "You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic". He left behind a huge bookcase full of band photo albums and other interesting stuff that I would go through.

We would bump into people locally too. Bruce Springsteen lived in Holmdel before he moved to Rumson. I did deliveries for Luigi's Pizza and we'd get that order on a regular basis. Before Bon Jovi hit he and his band members would hang out at a bar in Sayreville called "The Tunnel". We had no idea who they were back then, we just knew the guys were in a band. I only put it together that we were drinking alongside him when I heard him on Howard Stern talking about the bar much later in life.

We'd go to the Stone Pony and saw Southside Johnny, Little Steven's Underground Garage and a lot of other bands of that era. My wife went to school with Stevie Van Zandt's brother Billy, who was a struggling actor we would go root for in the local Dam Site dinner theater. He later married Adrian Barbeau. Bruce moved to Rumson, which was across the river from Sea Bright and we hung in the old Tradewinds Lounge where he'd show up and do a few songs with the band on occasion. I was lucky enough to be there one slow Sunday evening when he got on stage with Sam The Band. Absolutely amazing! Living in Monmouth County you never knew when Bruce would show up at a local venue and jam with the band. Part of the magic of living there in that era.

Movie director Kevin Smith grew up in my wife's neighborhood. His first movie "Clerks" was shot in a convenience store in Leonardo that I had once worked in a few years prior. We follow Patty Scalfa's brother's band locally. Last time we saw him about a year ago at Woody's Roadside Tavern, in Farmingdale, NJ the place was so jammed we could hardly get inside. I asked what the buzz was and they said that Bruce and Patty had been there the previous time they played and did a few songs. Missed that by a week! So the magic is still alive in Central NJ.

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Nothing like a bit of sarcasm?

Sarcasm was not my intention, if my post suggested such then I apologize.

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