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| Max Weinburg August 2000 | |
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From his days as an original member of Bruce Springstein's legendary E-Street Band to his popular role as music director and band leader for NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Max Weinburg has become one of the most renowned drummers in contemporary music. Today, his creative musical cues and hilarious on-air perfprmances as head of the Max Weinberg Seven have helped Late night with Conan O'Brien become one of the mhippest shows on late night TV and the number-one show on college campuses across America. Weinburg is also the author of the critically acclaimed rock history, The Big Beat, in which he interviewed fourteen of rock's greatest drummers, including his own personal heroes such as Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, and D.J. Fontana of Elvis Presley fame. He appeared on the Today SHow and Nightline and was featured performer with Springstein during a 1994 MTV Music Awards Program and the 1995 Grammy Awards telecast, performing Springsteen's Academy Award-winning song "Streets of Philadelphia." In December 1995, Weinberg performed as a guest artist in the East Room of the White House in a gala for president and Mr. Clinton. In October 1995, he was the first invited speaker to lecture at the newly opened Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. He presented a program entitled "Why Teach Rock In Schools?" His program presented a critical and timely question for all levels of academia which included a discussion of opportunities for advancement in contemporary music.
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