I was just up the road from you in Kearny.
At the time I was taking lessons in the early ‘80’s with Joe he was giving them from a Dorn & Kirschner music store in Union.
Prior to taking lessons I was just making noise.
Joe Morello taught me how to play the drums. I’m left handed. He got a kick out of that.
You went to the same place around the same time as my son’s teacher. Damned if I can remember his name. I recently saw a video of Ginger Baker and Art Blakey in a drum battle on Youtube. Baker impressed me he was even better than I thought. Blakey always impressed me, the dude was amazing. So many great drummers. I saw Billy Cobham with George Duke, Alphonso Johnson, & John Scofield at Carnegie Hall. Cobham was like an octopus, it seemed like someone with about 8 arms hitting the cans.