Pizza with Marc Antoine and Dean Martin I don’t know why Marc and I started calling each other “Bastardo.” We had just met. “How ya doin’, bastardo?” “What’s up, bastardo?” Marc Antoine is a tremendously gifted guitar...
Read MoreChicken Soup and My Dad’s Eyebrows My Dad (I called him Paps) had eyebrows that looked like two small porcupines had perched above his eyes. His eyebrows were so wild and wooly he could have combed them straight back and...
Read MoreLemon Chicken with Ace Frehley The first time I saw Ace Frehley he was waving an Uzi machine gun around in his kitchen. All this before lunch. He wasn’t trying to kill anybody, he was just showing us one of his toys. Ace had...
Read MoreA couple years ago, they shot a Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore movie in Manhattan. It was called Music and Lyrics. I heard about the movie from an online casting agency. I was hoping for a small part, maybe Hugh’s dog...
Read MoreBroccoli Rabe and First Slim Man Tour We left Ellicott City, Maryland, in an Isuzu Rodeo, a small SUV. It was me, drummer John E Coale, and keyboardist Rick O’Rick, AKA “Cowboy Pickles.” All three of us, our luggage and all the...
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