I did this yesterday for the Wall Street Journal. The art director is David Bamundo, who is a very talented illustrator and all around great guy. We were both in Philadelphia a few years ago for an Illustrator's conference and had our first real Philly cheese steak together. I think we had the same reaction - "Huh." I remember there where more than a few beers consumed that weekend. It's nice having someone like Dave in the position he's in at the Journal. It feels like our side has infiltrated the other side in a way.
Anyway, about the piece. Dan Zanes used to be in the Del Fuegos - the Next Big Thing out of the Boston Music scene back in the 80's I think he was in the Neighborhoods before that. At any rate, the Del Fuego's high water mark came when they scored the soundtrack to a beer commercial (Miller?), and it seemed to go downhill from there. My band "Thunderhouse" opened for them at a bar in Scituate around 1989. God, I'm old.
Zanes has found a new career as a children's music performer. I've heard some of the stuff, and I have to say, it's pretty darn good. Way better than your Raffi or Wiggles or Barney type of thing. Still, I wonder if he's ever done any shows with those cats. I'll bet backstage is a little different than what it was when he was a "grown up" rocker. At least now the backstage vomiting and pants wetting is performed by actual babies and toddlers instead of guys who just act like that.
2 comments:
Did the WSJ use the full color one or the purple one?
The purple one was the result of posting the image in CMYK color, rather than RGB. I'll delete it. Thanks for asking.
Dale
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