PipemanRadio Discusses The Jersey Sound Documentary With Randy Dominguez

0:04 Hey, you love then too. Censure see Wow, cra Young, Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four C. Why do com wes Palm Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the light Man. New York is. Great, Philly has soul. New Jersey has more passion than you could ever know when. You're gone and gone and gone.

0:46 I think there's a Jersey platitude, and John has it, and Bruce and we all do. It's that idea that no one is going to hold us back. We are not going to be laughed at way or be respected. You go through those records, you go through those lyrics. That's real. You can't have anything that really hits people unless it's authentic. There's a difference between Jersey and New York City if you're actually in there and involved in spending as much time in both states I have. It's it's night day. If you drive through New Jersey, you're going to drive through a microcosmo the entire United States. When you're blond and blondine, you can't see.

1:30 If you've got a group of people willing to make it their number one priority and go. All in you want to honor your scene. Seeing other people do it kind of inspired me to think like, yeah, maybe I could, maybe I. Could give this a shot. But once you start getting into bands, you shared the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. You are fortunate to be able to make music for a living, and you better kick ass every. Time on stage. Eras of artists, painters, musicians tend to crop bop together. We were in direct competition with all the bands from New York and Philly and it was great because we won.

2:12 It's New Jersey man, they love their music. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with our next guest who This is a pre killer interview for me because I'm a Jersey boy from all over Jersey. I'm a total total Jersey boy. So we're going to talk. About a Jersey sound documentary with Randy Dominguez. So welcome to the show. Thank you, bid Man. I really appreciate you having me on the show. An opportunity to talk about a film that is very close and dear to my heart. Yeah, it's closing dear in my heart. My story is pretty funny because I grew up in Jersey till nineteen eighty and then my dad came to my room. He's like, Hey, we're moving to California in three and so I it's so funny because that was the exact timing of the start of the eighties metal sunset strip scene.

3:11 So I made it out of Jersey in time to. Get there to see the first Metallica show ever, only to move back to Jersey to go to Rutgers and find out about the old Big Bridge Militia and all everybody telling me Metallica was from Jersey, and I kept saying to them, Yeah, they're from Jersey, after they were from the Bay Area, after they were from LA. It's one of those interesting, uh you know, ownership things. You know, if you're from the Bay Area, well this is where they really got their start. But you know, you always have to look at origins. That's really an interesting points because a number of musicians who really either were born or grew up in New Jersey or transition to New Jersey and created music here. I think we're influenced by the history of the prior musicians and what they brought to the table, you know. Interesting in a number of conversations that I've heard both Bruce and bon Jovi talk about how certain musicians influence their lives, whether you're talking about Sinatra or you're talking about something more current like Southside Johnny, who's absolutely superb. In the film, I think it really gives you a sense of the diversity that's actually here, the music that grew in New Jersey.

4:35 And that's really what I was hoping to accomplish and getting this film out is to let people know that New Jersey isn't just about you know, Bruce or Banjoe, who are absolutely marvelous. They're superb. They brought a lot to the music world, not just to New Jersey. I just wanted to eccentuate that they're an extension of our history. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know that's another funny scenario two. Like I worked at I was a manager of Harrow's on Route nine, so of course that's home area. Of bon Jovi. So I knew a lot of people that knew him and went to high school women and used to see him like at the Wendy's why you would go get lunch and stuff. Usain lived nearby in Jersey, but now he lives in the same town as my studio in Wellington, Florida, because his daughter's a equestrian and it's a big equestrian area.

5:34 So where our studio is the gym that used to be there. That's where he used to hang out and work out and. Stuff like that. So it's like, you know, they're all from Jersey, but everybody knows them again going back to home where home is, but Jersey really is home to me. I can say that. I think that really resonates a lot. I have a number of friends so that I've developed or become engaged with in Nashville, and a number of them all originated from New Jersey. In fact, Mark Bulch, who's my music supervisor and in his own right it's actually really quite a good musician. He resides now in Nashville, but he comes back to New Jersey every so often to sort of visit with his family. And some of the discussions that we've had, including with the likes of Steve Brown from Trickster and others that I've had the great pleasure and opportunity to meet, it really resonates how this is their roots that's never forgotten. It was interesting in one of the interviews that Steve Brown had. In one of the lines, he talks about how he went to I think it was La to do it taping for you know, one of their records, and while there what he discovered, and this is in the in the movie that there's a completely different frame of mind, he said. And out in California it's the musicians are what can you do for me? Whereas in Jersey, and this actually resonates throughout

7:08 the movie, it's what each of the musicians can do for each other. One of the very hardwhelming stories, and this actually came out a couple of times, is that a particular group might have just finished a set. But if you remember back in the seventies, the club scene literally there was a club scene around the corner, and so they would finish deday, run around the corner or a couple of blocks to get to the other club, just to listen to that other group who was singing, and they would help each other, critique or support, whichever the case was, to help them become better and so that they knew they just weren't there alone. It's interesting during a club scene, you know, you have these masses of young people going on to the clubs, getting drunk, hanging out partying, which was the whole idea. And but but it was their love of music, not just to go out and enjoy an evening out of you know, hanging out drinking with their buddies and girlfriends. But it was really more about really enjoying the music. That whole vibe created such a momentum. It lasted for a little over ten years until, of course, to change the they raised the drinking age again.

8:25 Yeah, just in time for me, I think, because when I got back to Jersey like great, now I. Have to wait. Yeah, And you know, it's interesting. I find that the different what you just said about the differences, and I think is the differences in personalities when you grow up in Jersey, post anywhere else. As somebody that moved to LA to start high school, Like what a culture shock that was. I think I would have had less culture shock moving to Europe. It was so different. And that Sunset strip scene, Yeah, it was like what all about me? The typical LA scene, whereas Jersey people, you know, it's it's funny you go other places and people have this misconception of what New Jersey is and Jersey people are, but we are like the most loyal people that are there to help each other. Yes, sarcasm is our second language, but we also understand each other with that.

9:32 It's not you know, you go other. Places you're sarcastic and people think, oh, you're rude or you're a jerk off or whatever, and really it's just showing love. You know, like you're not sarcastic with somebody you don't like, and you know you'll be You'll give them crap one minute, but then you'll have their back the next minute. And that's a Jersey person. Yeah, I think it's interesting. I can capitalize it with one of the interviews and this actually became our teen's mantra. In one of the south Side interviews, he comes os a it's an attitude and when you and I think we wanted to exploit that a little because even my narrator, Mike Greenblad, who I thought did an awesome job. He also scripted the narration, and who's a huge music he's an editor. He worked for the Aquarium magazine back during that time, he was actually at excuse me, he was actually at Woodstock when he was eighteen years old. He about that so he's got an amazing breath of experience that he brought to this, and he really kind of brought it into how we were the sort of the middle child between Pennsylvania New York or Philadelphia New York City, and how we ourselves stand out on our own two feet.

10:54 But in a way that it sort of implies it. We complimented each other. You know. There was a three different music scenes, but somehow they work together. Because they were East Coast, there were more integration between the musical groups. That wasn't advertiser, Sorry, what's so what I'm looking for confrontational scenarios. It was really more about kind of support, and I think New Jersey exemplifies that. It was interesting during the filming. I don't know if you heard. His name is Unicorn one fifty one. He's a young hip hop, really up and coming, absolutely dynamic individual. He's brought a whole new scene of a way to represent music. It's about sort of free dance, it's about really very positive vibes kind of thing.

11:53 And he was. Sitting next to me with his girlfriend and at the end of the film, I asked him, what did you think. He said, I've learned so much that I didn't know about the New Jersey music scene, and that was very gratifying to me because this is what we wanted to do. We wanted to highlight that New Jersey has really transcended all genres, all time periods. We have moved along with each of them, and within each of those periods, with even the genres, there have been musicians, exceptional musicians who have come out of this that and have such great stories.

12:35 I think one of my favorites is Aldamiola, who talks about you know, I don't want to give it up everything in the scene, but he has this great, great anecdote about him and his father and how he actually got to sing God, what was it? Sorry, I've got so much going on my brain. I'm thinking about Cartogi Hall and how excited he was and his father. There's a punchline in there that's actually really quite humorous in the movie, at which he explains in a prior interview. So I think there's so many really fun stories that we have. There were more, but to encapsulate this in a way that individuals, you know, And my thought wasn't this movie just wasn't made for New Jersey and New Jersey musicians and New Jersey residents. This movie was made to make the world aware that New Jersey isn't just a flower capital. It isn't just an industrial state in Southern Jersey. There's really so much more culture, so much history.

13:47 I think my team and I have to give credit if I may, Monica Mains and my associate producer, I said Mark Bulch. My music supervisor, Ryan Hanriady, who is a young editor who really come to fruition. He was very impactful in putting this film together. Mike green Blatt, who's also the editor of my website, The Jerseysound dot com. He's also added quite a bit. And there are other individuals Jason Brickau, who is the manages all my social media sites. All of this group work together, and I think it was very representative of musicians in New Jersey.

14:32 It was about coming out what a final product that would resonate to people in Germany, they would resonate to people in Brazil. You know, we've got plans to transition to into other languages, you know, as we move forward. But it was just kind of really cool. One of the interesting things that my sales agent, I'm sorry, my sales agent Mark Breweder said to me, there are a couple of companies who are interested in producing CDs. I honestly at the time, I thought, well, kind of CDs are out? He said, no, No, that there are a number, a large number of schools that they work with. And when I thought about it, you know how many schools have music curriculums, whether it be not just universities or colleges, but also high schools who really want to be able to showcase, you know, this particular sector of the world.

15:34 I think this documentary can give really a good educational back overlook into what Jersey music. But it isn't just about Jersey music. I think New Jersey is representative of music all throughout. It just happens to be that we have an attitude with others. Go there, you go, and to your point, it's so true a couple of points that you've made. One is one thing I learned being in both the LA music scene and the Jersey music scene is you're absolutely one hundred percent correct. And that's one of the reasons bands like Metallic and Slayer left LA and went to the Bay Area because we didn't all play along at all, like even within the same genre. It was like, oh, if you like this type of rock or this type of metal, or this type of punk or new wave or that, like you were all in these clicks, whereas I didn't find that in Jersey, Like, yeah, we banded together if you were a certain genre, but you were also supportive of other genres, liked other genres, and you know it. It is representative of music as a whole.

16:46 And then to your point between of New Jersey, like you know, you go to the rest of the country or even the rest of the world, and they lump New Jersey together with Philly and New York like we're all one people, one area, and if you're from there, you realize there's similarities, but were vastly different, you know. And you know, so I'm glad that you're bringing out this documentary not just because of music, but to show the world what Jersey really is all about. And even if you step outside of music, like I've always talked about and I saw this in the press release for the documentary, is like you if you wanted to visit every part of the United States, all you have to do is be in Jersey, in that small little state.

17:32 We have every geography and every makeup that is all over the US. I think, I think you're right. One of the interesting facts that we're in early on is that there are more musicians per capita in the state of New Jersey than in any other state in the country. And once that resonated with me, I started to work with my director of Fuvial Cesario into trying to discover exactly what that meant. And as we progressed and started to realize the breath and scope. I mean, one of the things I didn't get an opportunity to highlight as much here as I wanted to is the Lidi Pilani Indians who migrated here from South Carolina and created a whole sort of really cultural air group. In fact, where I live in Bergen County in northern New Jersey, Uh, there is actually a whole area that's really resonates quite a bit to have schools and things that really there's a hittory behind that. And they were the first known group to create any kind of music in New Jersey. And so I mean, of course it's it's really more part of their rituals. We did try to capture some of that, but it's just it's very difficult in a ninety minute film to capture all of that. We're looking to do more episodes to really enhance the viewing experience and did really give more of a background of what New Jersey's about.

19:03 But I needed to be able to come out something within somewhat a timeframe. There was we had some struggles technical issues, like everybody does, like but we Like I said, my team is absolutely incredible. I am. I am very very fortunate that I have them and I've been able to associate with and that we as a collaborative effort, were able to create such an incredible piece. And it did create an incredible piece. It's amazing. I think everybody has to check it out. Speaking of which, how do they get to your website, your socials and be able to either buy or watch the documentary, check out the trailer everything so.

19:51 Right now, my website is www dot The Jerseysound, no spaces, no caps dot com. My instagram is just simply The Jersey Sound, no spaces, all small caps. You through that you'll be able to connect. Now through my website, you can take a look at trailers. My website also has a link to tob that also you know that you can access that that's and also we just recently were picked up by Amazon, so Amazon, you can just click on Amazon. Again, we kept it very simple. The Jersey sound. You can type that in, it'll take you to the website.

20:32 It's available for rental and purchase however you prefer to have. There are some people that have talked to us that we want to keep this in our library because we want this to resonate. Interesting enough, I've asked a number of friends with kids ages from you know, seven to seventeen, and I said, you know, I'd love to hear their feedback, and really kind of interesting that most of them, I would say about ninety percent of them have said they really enjoyed the movie, that it was it was entertaining. I think it's one of the words that one of the kids use and I and that was very gratifying to me because I didn't want to make a documentary about a lot of people talking. You know, the talking hits just doesn't make allow people. We wanted to create a story. We wanted to have a beginning, in middle and the end, and it ended up that Southside, who's just an incredible individual and he really I see, I think almost personifies New Jersey music. I think we used them as the vehicle, and we worked closely with them word use them as a vehicle to really kind of create the nexus for the story. And we were able to then to and create a sort of add additional of the supplementary to the things that really give body and scope to the film.

21:59 Nice and yeah, it's great that you brought up about, you know, the younger generation, because they weren't there way back when, so you if it was it was boring, they would tell you. So the fact that they said it's entertaining, that's. A huge kudos because a lot of documentaries are boring, especially if it's only entertaining to the person that like lived it, like somebody like me. It's like home movies, so it's entertaining, But some kid might not like home movies at home much less. Say that again, I said, no, that I absolutely agree.

22:39 Interesting because I'm very fortunate. I have a son, I have two grandchildren, a granddaughter and a grandson, and I have a great grandson. Wow. Yeah, I let's just say that I started very young, and I am very pleased with all of my kids. And family. They all resonate all my I've stole my kids. Obviously they're biased, but they all enjoyed the movie. They said, we really had fun with it. That was something that kind of resonated to me. I do want to mention because anybody who's interested. Mark Bruder from BRI is our licensing agent. So if anybody is interested in reaching out, they can certainly come through me through my website and we can give them the contact information if they're interested in getting involved in the film at anyway.

23:37 Nice and is there anything else you want to let the listeners know that we haven't covered already that they need to know. I so, I was born in Cuba, right. I came over in November of fifty nine. I grew up on the West Side of Manhattan the sixties and the seventies, and New Jersey was to me almost like a foreign country because that in the seventies it was you know, the different club scenes and things like that. But I always wondered why is it? And part of it is because I was young. I didn't have a car. I love New York City scene back in that day. You know, I was dirt poor, so I couldn't afford to go anywhere, and living in New York City, it was a mecca of everything. But once I moved to New Jersey, I got married, moved to New Jersey, I was able now to experience a different perspective, and that was resonated with me.

24:36 How do I explain my ignorance back in the sixties and seventies to the transitioning and allowing everyone else to know that New Jersey isn't the middle the young child between Philly and New York. New Jersey stands out and it's really what I think we were able to accomplish is to tell this story of a geographic area within the US that not only resonates here in East Coast, but resonates around the world. And that's what I hope that I had achieved, by the way, not just name me and my team.

25:17 That's right and no doubt, and I'm thankful for you doing that, because you know how many times throughout the years I've tried to explain to people or that they're like, you know, or there's people that go to different places and they're from Jersey and they claim New York instead of Jersey, you know, because they're embarrassed to say Jersey or whatever. And I always say to people, Listen, New Jersey is not Newark Airport. Okay, everybody thinks that's what New Jersey is. Ok And even okay, you take a place like Asbury, Like I lived on the other side of deal La in Asbury in Ocean Town, and when I lived there, you didn't really cross the other side of the lake. But when I was a kid, kid who grew up in North Jersey, you know, you went to Asbury Park as a kid.

26:01 It was like one of my favorite memories. And now once again Asbury is a destination, you know, because they renovated it. But how many people would know that. They may think of the Asbury of old and stuff like that. I think people really need to watch this documentary, visit Jersey and they'll get a whole different thing. Because you're right. I was born in New York, grew up in Jersey, and I'm the type of person that I love New York City to go to and I love Jersey to live in. I agree, complete I think that really fits it in a nutshell. In fact, a lot of people during unfortunately COVID moved out of New York into New Jersey because they wanted a little safety of not having as many people around, and that was really a crazy period. Fortunately we moved on from there. But I think what has shown is that New Jersey has a lot more to offer than just simply a safe haven or more of our rural New Jersey really is more of a cosmopolitan state that most people don't really understand. Whether you have Hoboken, Ashbury Park, there's so many other places that really resonate with not just music, but with cultural identity. Some of the towns have a lot of historical significance. I think that really adds to the flavor of the state and why there are actually is a lot of people that

27:31 really want to come and visit. And I find that, you know, anybody I've ever met that's from Jersey, you know, basically has a love of New Jersey, the pride of in all that more than any other area in the United States. I think it's like it's just a thing that we're so proud of, right and. It is part because I think we understand our culture where we have some great sports colleges and and obviously teams in New Jersey, but it is not a state about sports, although it does resonate big for all for a lot of people, but it's also a state of the culture, of the of the co of the the the even for such things as what's the you know, the garden State. There's a reason why they call it the Garden State. I didn't find that out to the first year. I came back from my honeymoon and we came back I think it was late April, and we see all these of all this flowering and we're going azaleas.

28:35 It's only going all over the place, and we're going, oh my god, this is why they call it the Garden State. Flower It's really amazing. So and that really kind of opened up a door for me and as well as other people who come in here are able to experience the four season. That's the other thing that I enjoyed. We do have four seasons. There are states like in the Midwest northern Midwest that effectively have two season wind in summer and very little in between. We do have the opportunity we have such great play. Whether you're going up state New Jersey and going hiking or going through some of the different areas that allow for that, or you're going down to the Jersey Shore. I do want to mention we held a private event. It had to be private for a number of reasons on June twenty fifth down in Ashbury Park at the House of Independence.

29:30 They were absolutely terrific and we loved the venue because it was sort of almost theater life in the way the threats was set up and I had a little over one hundred and twenty five people showed up. At least seventy five to eighty were musicians for people involved in the film. I was so humbled by their comments, their hugs, their handshakes. They're thanking me for creating something and you could see it in their eyes and the twinkle of their smiles that said, we finally have something that tells the story of who we really are.

30:14 Yeah, and there it is that is right there that says it all about the attitude, the loyalty, the everything of the Jersey Sound and how everybody just supports each other. And that's what I love most about the Jersey Sound. Same here. Well, I pipe man, I gotta say, I'm really grateful for you taking your time to give me the opportunity to talk a little bit about the film and about my team, and more importantly about the state that has a really incredible attitude and a passion for each other.

30:55 Absolutely, and I thank you for bringing this about and everybody's definitely gotta check out the documentary. It is to be blunt, badass, and whether you're from Jersey or you're from Australia, it's badass. So thank you very much for all the work you've done for this, for the scene, for New Jersey and everything, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipemin. Thank you very much and I hope that you have a terrific rest of the year for you and your family. Same to you, all right, Thank you, Pipemin, Thank you. For listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.