It was just — I, my earliest recollections were just, um, sitting there, uh, enthralled with the sound that was coming out of this, uh, this hi-fi. I mean, I started studying music at a really early age so it sort of went hand-in-hand.
When did you realize you were going to be a musician? It was pretty early on. I had a wonderful teacher when I was in elementary school. His name was Jack Carmen. He was a great guy with a great laugh and he was really a quite proficient musician.
He was a trombone player and he also played an amazing clarinet. He was really into Dixieland music. He was also into gigging all the time, as well as being, you know, head of the music department. This is what I want to do. Can you remember your first public performance?
I would imagine my first public performance was an elementary school band concert, very much as they are today. I guess I was in, uh, the 4 th grade? Yes, nine years old. And I can only imagine how we sounded. I had had an advantage going into, into elementary school having, again, studied music privately for three or four years. There was a fella in town, uh, his name was Jerry Petrie, and he was also on staff at Julliard. And he had a little, uh, garage studio behind his house and he would give lessons.
And I started studying the recorder with him um, when I was five. You know what? It was a big step-up advantage for me going into elementary school where kids mostly are seeing instruments for the first time and, uh, getting to handle them and play. So tell us about when you were touring with the Vegas Style Show Band. And so, it was just that sort of thing.
We had a big green truck. It was the kind of thing where you would go, we would go to a hotel in, uh, in New Orleans and stay in the French Quarter in a hotel for three or four weeks and play their, um, their lounge you know?
And we had and act, um, and we had outfits, and we had steps and we, you know, it was that sort of thing.
We actually did play in Vegas at the old Stardust. But it was fun and it was my first road experience. And it was a little rough, uh, I mean just the travelling part of it. The rest of it was pretty, pretty comfortable. And making money playing music — that was, uh, that was the big deal. You mentioned you born in Long Island.
What got you, uh, interested in living in New York City? I think you, you mentioned it was the lower East side.
I have to add that when I moved to the lower East side it was, uh, in , right at the, uh, Bicentennial. And it was still really pretty dangerous to live down there when we, when we moved down there.
I understand that in addition to being a musician, for a time, you were also a record producer? Uh, yes. Did do a stint as a record producer. And I had been asked by a publishing company to produce a single for, um, one of their artists. It just happen to come out really well. Bruce Kapler. Bruce Kapler fans also viewed:. Lakshmi Mittal. George Nelson. Alexandru Dabija. Waldemar Krzystek.
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