Now I mostly do solo gigs and give private piano lessons.\u00a0 I don’t play klezmer.\u00a0 I knew you’d ask.\u00a0 I like klezmer, but I don’t play it.\u00a0 I like the blues — all kinds.\u00a0\u00a0 The Jewish blues, by the way, is all about the flatted 2nd.\u00a0 Last shabbes<\/em> my rabbi’s sermon was \u201cWhat I Learned at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\u201d\u00a0 The rabbi must have seen 20 Feet from Stardom <\/em>recently.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em> He said you\u2019ve got to balance your sideman role with your star-tripping goals.\u00a0 Joseph was a star-tripper, and his brother Judah played in Joseph’s band as a sideman, not as a star-tripper.<\/p>\n You don’t know the story of Joseph?\u00a0 Look it up.<\/p>\n The rabbi<\/strong> <\/span>asked for comments from the congregation.\u00a0 He likes to work the room. I chimed in about my old band.\u00a0 The worshipers loved my comments!\u00a0 Most people didn’t even know I was a rocker.\u00a0 I talked about my record deals and my A-hole managers.\u00a0 I even said “A-hole.”<\/p>\n I’m a sideman.\u00a0 I accept that now.\u00a0 Deep breath.\u00a0 Om.<\/p>\n We’re all sidemen.\u00a0 But, hey, don’t forget this: I hit #53 on the Billboard Hot 100, June 21, 1995, with \u201cMy Afterlife is After Yours.” I was a rock star of sorts in the 1990s.\u00a0 My band was on MTV and charted #53 on the Billboard Hot 100.\u00a0 But we had a problem; nobody wanted to be a sideman, everyone wanted to be the star.\u00a0 I wrote the songs but everybody thought they were the star.\u00a0 I was the star! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17722"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"rock](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/rock-star-53.jpg\")
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\nYiddishe Cup plays tonight (Wed. 12\/31) at Akron (Ohio) First Night<\/a>, 9:30 p.m., John S. Knight Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"