Remember Jones opens up about his musical roots in New Jersey

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welcome back to short time with vin and Dave Vin abenue Dave Crossing with you as we continue our music themed show we gave you some Jersey artists before we got another Jersey artist here right now remember Jones from Jersey City to Brick left the state for a while but then he realized how good Jersey is so he came back to Jersey in the Asbury Park area and he's here to talk with us this morning so welcome on in good morning thanks for coming in I know it's a little early hey I'm in the PM so this is a special event right now we feel honored that you made it in thank you he heard you know all the the hype about short time he like course I I heard short time is like church so I thought Sunday morning let's go let's genu flect get everybody uh you know pumped up on a Sunday morning steak and eggs you know because Dave and I have talked breakfast for dinner sometimes but I said you what about dinner for breakfast little steak and eggs nothing wrong with that that's a great thing I love breakfast for dinner love you know what it's good isn't it like pancakes what's wrong with that well I'm like a keto guy you know so like and breakfast a lot of low carb stuff there eggs and cheese you can get away with like a frittata for dinner veggies and meats there it is sense I got to pass on the pancakes unfortunately but tell me how they taste pakes if you tell me how they taste and I could smell them that's usually enough for you know some I feel like Yankee Candle or somebody should make a candle of like breakfast foods oh I think it's a great idea I actually went into Yankee Candle looking for a strawberry cheesecake one cuz I love cheesecake and and I would hope to have found a food section maybe like a french toast candle you could go give me the whole gam without a doubt and all of a sudden your house start smelling like different foods like oh wow what what are you what's going on in here well when you walk into Yankee Candle you get a headache sometimes so if it smelled like dinner or you know a Burger King I would sign me up I used to work at the Jacks outet at Under Armour every time I would like walk P even not even just walk into Yankee Candle like walk in there like you get like a whole whiff of like the 30 different scents in there I'm like wao yeah yeah I'm not sure if it's actually helping them yeah yeah but I mean people back hand I mean it smells good but it's just kind of like all at once it's a little overwhelming yes for sure well it smells great in here yeah anybody's wondering it's like a it's like anir for Breeze air freshener it's like a clean linen I think keep a good Studio I love it I you know like to keep Good Vibes it's a must but I digress um so we we've covered food we've covered candles let's talk music thanks for that was your take we got we got your favorite candle scent that's that's what we were looking for yeah definitely you know this is super cool for me um you know I grew up uh we lived in Ocean Township for a little while and then and then moved to Brick and uh you know I graduated high school like 20 something years ago brick memorial high school and um so when I was living in Ocean Township 943 the point was in cie Square Mall which is not even there anymore right it's it's different stores and everything and I was just obsessed as a kid and actually this is a good segue to talk about a lot of things I'm doing but I remember uh bad out of hell to coming out right Meatloaf anything for love but I won't do that I was so obsessed and I would call the radio station every day to request the song and I and they got used to hearing my voice you know who I was and they were very friendly and invited me into the studio to take a little tour I can't remember who was you know doing any shows I have no idea the names but I do remember at the mall there was like a facade that was looked like a radio or a stereo and you could walk by it and watch them live on air um I mean that Mall's a long gone it was actually it's really cool that you could do that yeah yeah it was actually long gone even at the time to be honest with you but um it was such a cool thing for me and I was just a as a music lover and a music kid you know just obsessed with radio listening to radio all the time making mixtapes at that age oh yeah did the same thing yeah yeah so I would catch you know I think I probably somewhere have them saying you know it's a request by Anthony or whatever and then I would call and say thank you so much can we do you know I was just a mess but you know as as a you know 10-year-old kid or whatever I mean that was so kind deal yeah it was so kind of them you know such a big deal to me you know wow the world night for three the points I oh my God yeah like once you you're hearing them and you're seeing it was just a really really cool thing got a tour the studio and everybody was super friendly and and uh so so I have a a thing with 9043 the point there you go well let's let's talk about your music let's go back in time and let's talk about your influences your music and bringing it to now yeah yeah sure uh well you know I I uh call Asbury Park Home um which is such like a music uh hub for New Jersey and and I Tour all around the country now and there's really no other place like it when I tell people like what we have here and and the um capabilities to perform or the outlets to to reach people and entertain it just doesn't really happen anywhere else and that was probably a part of my upbringing too you know knowing the the music history of New Jersey and and uh my family just being music lovers no no one was really a musician but but they love music love music we're always around music you everybody playing songs singing harmonies or whatever um and you know when CDs came out Columbia House you know we were on top of that there you go um so we they were collectors too of music and records and things like that so I just was really influenced by that and found my first Outlet to perform in musical theater okay um which is no surprise to people who see my shows uh because they're super theatrical and itic yeah oh yeah I take a lot of that influence but uh you know doing plays in school and then ultimately Community Theater and then professional theater uh that was really my outlet and I was you know like funny guy and could sing so it it all kind of added up and then um I started to have bands sort of later into my teens while I was doing musicals cuz I had more of like a pop rock voice I would do shows like Jesus Christ Superstar and gods spell and and you know kind of Pippin kind of rock opera type Tommy that kind of thing so uh I felt really comfortable in those and then had bands and sort of found my way out of theater a little bit and more focused on on being a front man and um uh really at some point into that career probably 10 years after that time period I decided to hybrid the two and give myself a stage name which is remember Jones great name and um I wanted something people would remember you know and uh I talk how you come well how'd you come up with it well there there's actually a singer songwriter um like myself from New Jersey with the same name my my real name is Anthony damato but the uh his name is the same he's kind of a Americana folk singer very different from me and when my space was the thing in Myspace music uh I know we laugh now but man it was such a thing then they uh they kind of conjoined our profiles together both Anthony damato I guess think think was some sort of mistake okay and it just became this headache and and people were booking him looking for me and vice versa and that was very different so I just I knew I could create this Persona okay that that he couldn't cuz he his music he's amazing just different you know and I think he um aligned with his own name more than I did on stage I was I was a character on stage anyway so uh remember Jones kind of Brands myself allows me to kind of be whatever I want to be whenever I want to to be uh it's kind of My Lady Gaga or my Freddy Mercury or Tina Turner if you think of it that even David Bowie not even his real name you know so it's just uh it took a while for me to commit to that and and a mentor of mine said if people don't like it change it to something else there you go you know and uh it worked it really worked for me and I've been uh you know just taking off since and and Asbury Park in Mammoth County in particular um have been really influential in my career and have allowed me to grow Beyond just New Jersey but six months a year on the road oh well um but I call Asbury Park home now and uh only play there a few times a year but uh it's just it's been really great it's it's been great to grow obviously the a few years of the pandemic were a step back that were kind of still coming out of what was that like being a musician going through the pandemic trying to still put music out or you know I tried to sugarcoat it for sometimes I talk about it but painful definitely painful um you know I'm an Entertainer first like I I think I'm a writer third I'm a singer second if you if you push me out on a stage and and put me in front of people I could do my thing and you guys you guys are have that capability as well you know so um that's my strength putting on a show enter aining people taking taking nothing and turning it into something so to not be able to do that you know that was painful I could sing in my in my shower I could uh write songs all day long but that you know thing the the connection to people not having that was was hard so we did live streaming for a little while but I mean that was not fun for me different without a crowd yeah and I I sing to the sky you know I have this huge powerful voice so like to sing it to this tiny dot feed off the audiences in there yeah yeah right that that energy I learned a lot though you know we had to learn that I I say like artists didn't really get a break like some people did we had to you know deal with the emotions of losing everything that we were doing I mean I lost my entire business structure you know at the time um and and you know to to adjust to this other world took time and learning and patience and money that we weren't making so people were really giving you know fan base and doing live streams and things like that like people were really really helpful and and that was cool and even if people had no money and they just said hey we're thinking about you what's going on are you okay that's priceless so yeah um I I did write a record though in that time you had that video that everybody watches oh yeah yeah can you talk about that I I have a I have a lot of them okay well the one in particular the cartoon about oh yeah yeah that's great um yeah yeah fat jeans was actually that was my first single during that time um and it had a lot to do with my P pmic story I think all of us uh put on the co absolutely the co 45 I might as well eat we're home right exactly and uh you know I actually have uh a a weight loss history it's hard to put that to words but at one point and during my high school years and a lot of people knew me in this area as you know a big guy I was 400 lb wow so I um you know took time about 10 years ago and and through diet and exercise lost 200 plus pounds that's awesome um it was pretty amazing uh I wasn't sure how I was going to do that for the rest of my life you know after I lost the initial weight right try to keep it up yeah it was definitely hard for a few years but it's it's been good i' I've been able to do it but the co time was a test you know that for everybody you know like that was that was tough uh even when I thought I was eating well I was just doing nothing you know well think about people went to gyms the gyms weren't open it was such a challenging time to figure out some sort of routine to get through it and of course not overeating um during the that time period it's hard cuz you're like sitting home watching movies or TV you're like H bag of chips here or whatever there yeah totally totally and uh it happened and I I decided to kind of write a song about it which I I had never sung about my um my weight loss or a great song yeah it's fun so I called it fat jeans because you know in my in my drawers at home you know there is a dresser of stuff when I feel real good and spelt and then there are you know my fat jeans if I have if I have a cheat day or something like that or a cheat week um I put my fat jeans on and I just said that in the conversation you know I just I put my fat jeans on and it sounded musical to me wrote this song and uh had a great video animated by a friend of mine and uh he he worked so hard on it we worked well together just conceptually and laughed so hard at every minute of it and um it's it's all true I mean it's all a real story you know it's it's it's fun and people resonated with that at the time um and still do I perform it in the live shows and it's a great fun moment and uh I I love the humor aspect of it but there's also a little you know true storytelling in that and connecting people together um I think people see me now they don't realize that I have that struggle so as as a writer does often you take from your life and you you do your thing so it's really cool the video is a blast if you want to check it out and you haven't and you're listening uh fat jeans um there is some controversy over that song because it was borrowed quote unquote by a national artist a little larger than me um wow okay I had heard that yeah it yeah stolen some would say the songs don't sound exactly the same but the concepts are identical and the videos are almost identical um another animated video so I don't even need to mention it because we don't want to give that any air time but you can you can you can find it out yourself clear you search fat jeans remember Jones and it comes up it definitely hits some national uh news outlets and stuff and uh got me some plays and some views out of all the places you've been to and traveling um touring all over the country and of course New Jersey there do you prefer like the smaller venues or the large venues to you know get up on stage and perform was just having this conversation the other day because uh you know we as we tour there are some cities and locations where we are playing big festivals or big theaters and then there's some where I still don't have that ground just yet so we play a smaller venue and there's you know we we will go from 50 people night to 500 or 5,000 oh wow so as a front man and and kind of a a Visionary type I have to adapt you know and be able to control that type of audience every time and my band is down for the ride and and they know the set list might change depending on you know how things go and and we have plans for that but I I hate it's so weird to say I like them all but right you know I get that yeah this past weekend I I did um a few intimate sort of Cabaret type settings for uh fans and they they were kind of invited only in private and there was about 30 people there and I was able to tell stories and and sing stripped down versions of my songs that I I don't typically anywhere else and it was really special oh well and and a lot of them had never heard me sing but I usually have like a 10piece band with me and sometimes you know in in Jersey sometimes I'll do up to 20 or 25 people a choir horn section string section all this stuff um on the road we take around 10 people so these people had never heard me sing with just a piano or something you so that was really special and I really like doing that it definitely turns up the storytelling and and the the connection to the material but like I love a party you know and I love the opportunity to be in like a huge theater uh my homebased theater is the count basy okay um in red red sure classic legendary yeah I've sold it out many times grew up on that stage doing you know musicals and plays good place to see a show yeah it's it's so good so you know 1600 people there when they stand up you you almost feel like pushed back you know it's it's a it's a really cool feeling there and and it's special for everybody involved so I I like it all a little bit um that's fair yeah I like to perform and stuff you know there you go so yeah we got to dive to a quick break but want to talk more about your upcoming shows and Performing as well can you hang around yeah let's do it yeah there we go he's going to hang with us dude got pancakes here so let's go why not and french toast smelling candles we've got it all covered here on shorttime of Vin and Dave it continues right after this on 943 The Point hi this is christe Pierce rampone former US women soccer team captain Olympic gold medalist World Cup champion and Point Barrow High School alum and you're listening to short time with vin and Dave on 943 The Point tune in for 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talking about some of his influence and we a little bit about food and candles as well uh but he's got some shows coming up this year uh including April 14th and 15th at oxar Rod Performing Arts Center in deal and that's close to sold out so you better hop on that uh June 2nd at the count bayy in Redbank June 10th at Resorts Casino Superstar theater in AC and also uh big time music festival coming up this summer North to shore just announced by Governor Murphy and his administration during the week in Newark Asbury Park in Atlantic City and you're taking the stage down in AC yeah that's right uh just very cool to be involved with this uh North ashore festival and um uh I'll be doing uh the Resorts Casino the Superstar theater on June 10th we'll be doing all of Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album W I've got a 15 piece band with part one or part two uh so we're doing all of part one okay and then we got some stuff from part two okay yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean it's funny to think about that album being only like seven songs but like 45 minutes or you know 50 minutes they're pretty long so to get like an entire night going well get grab three or four from the second album CU they were just as long and we're all good um I'm I'm actually like a a huge fan of uh of of Jim Steinman who wrote all all of the music and um it really helps like my theatricality and sort of tongue and cheek thing at the same time happen and um I just have always connected with that material I mean he wrote Totally Clips of the heart he wrote It's All Coming Back to Me Now by selan he wrote Holding Out for a Hero uh making love out of nothing at all Air Supply I mean it was just redom and weep Barry Manalo it's like all these huge hits that were Jim Steinman surrounded by the bad of one and two success um and he's got a few musicals and things like that too so I'm doing that June 10th uh as part of the north the shore Festival in AC but I'm doing the show first June 2nd at the count basy theater in Red Bank and this is actually a Revival of me doing the show we did it last year um it was huge we did three nights and sold out immediately and we sold out within a couple days and I had Max Weinberg on drums which was super cool Max played the album in 1977 bad out of Health in the studio so that's him on pretty much all the tracks and this was his first time performing it live so that was super cool kind kind of a cool honor there go he obviously is not available for June they are on the road with the E Street B that's right but uh I do have you know some other guests and things lined up for that road in June and uh yeah it's just so much fun man that show I definitely do my own kind of concept to it it's if you expect theatricality like you do when you listen to Bad out of hell I'm going to give that to you on steroids for sure you go like that crazy outfits crazy band everybody that's like one of my favorite music videos uh like um I would do anything for love but not uh that like where he dresses up like a gargoyle and all of a sudden sliding across the floor I'm like what's going on here it was entertaining and funny at the same time but also very good it was so it was huge and I can't remember the director but a really big director on that you know and and that was like a comeback for meatloaf and think the separation the time between the first Al the second and the pressure on the second album and they nailed it nailed it yeah yeah it's it's it's fun history you know to go back and dive into all that stuff a lot of those songs on the second album Jim Steinman had planned for bat out of hell 2 which was to be released a few years after the first one and there he wind up releasing the record himself as Jim Steinman the record's called bad for good and it's uh it's just interesting you know really the trajectory of the whole meatloaf thing I mean never would have thought that would be as big or close to I mean batted of hell is the top third selling album of all time to be able to do that and so many years of separation to be able to bring that back again and amazing story naed it definitely so I I love bringing it back to life and giving kind of people a fresh ear on it which is super fun and it's definitely music that I have always sung it's in my wheelhouse you know people are like wow can you do that the pressure is heavy but I definitely love it and it's and it's definitely appropriate for me so that I'm excited about in June I do have some local stuff in April too I do a lot of work with the axle Rod Performing Arts Center in Deal um they're just like 5 minutes outside of Asbury Park and they are sort of a union theater company they do a lot of professional theater all year long and I've I've done a few roles there I played Jacqueline Hyde in the musical Jacqueline Hyde uh Chay in the musical of Vita I just played Teen Angel in Greece sang sang a very remember Jones Beauty School Dropout which was a lot of fun sure but every year I kind of do some kind of theatrical concert or some project there and uh this year I'm doing a 50th anniversary of Joe Cocker's m Dogs and Englishmen wow Cocker nice yeah so this tour was uh from 1970 around that time they released a record which at one time was the top selling live album of all time and it was one of the top selling Live tours of all time at the time and uh it had Leon Russell on piano music directing a 20 piece band surrounded by Joe Cocker uh surrounding Joe Cocker and they're all covers so it's it's Rolling Stones The Beatles Ray Charles Otis reading the band Leonard Cohen the list just starts there with a 20 piece gospel soul Arrangement so it it feels like church you know to hear his version With a Little Help from My Friends which is pretty popular but with a 20 piece band a you know npers choir the horn section two drummers um so we're doing that we're doing that the 14th and 15 April 14th and 15th at the Axel Rod Performing Art Center and tickets are kind of almost sold out they're selling fast how can somebody get a ticket Axelrod artc center.com okay or remember jones.com you could get all the links there uh we're also taking that show on the road um grammar City Theater in New York City uh City Winery in Philadelphia but most excited about bethl Woods Center for the Arts in bethl New York that's the original Woodstock grounds so uh really pumped about that it will be indoors they have a super cool Museum and event space inside but that's going to be super cool so kind of a busy couple things going yeah I'm doing doing a little Festival down in uh uh South Jersey called Camp Jam they're really supportive of me all year long all over the state that's in May uh with my original music and uh I'll be touring original music all summer long as well all around the country you and I were talking off the air about different artists and influences that you have and you and I have one in particular Prince yeah oh man let's talk about that a little bit the artist period you know like there is there's no no comparison to Prince you you could say he was sounded like XYZ or looked like this but Prince broke around every time he stepped on stage every time he released something every lyric every every musical Nuance I mean Prince to me is the the number one you know uh when Prince passed my pH oh my phone blew up from everybody I had to pull over my car I mean I got to chill just thinking about it cuz that was it was California I know exactly where I was it was have you taken the Paisley Park tour I have not it's amazing for a fan it's it's really really cool now he had his his home was his studio and in uh outside Minneapolis and um you could take a tour of it now I haven't I will though he would he would do uh shows in there basically I think they built it to facilitate Studio space for purple rain and the sign of the times Torah I think you're right I remember a lot of what they did for sign of the times one of my favorite albums of trend and when it came out it was like you know wow you know Prince you know with purple rain and like where' he go from there and then albums later Here sign of the times like wow this guy's something else his story is incredible too I always have to like talk to people about why he changed his name to the symbol because people think it's crazy but it's actually brilliant right and and he stood up against you know the the music business model which was an ownership of the music yeah it's really anti- artist and and as a young artist now as things have shifted also Prince being the first to take advantage of the internet right for his music um was way ahead of everyone with that um you know it is it is challenging for a young artist today to release music and be heard and seen and and streaming we all know the the fighting behind the scenes when it comes to that and the royalties and and how much money you get paid out so you know Prince was at the precipice of that set the example for that and and I mean to make to to not be able to get your Masters so then perform under just a a symbol you know and uh release a three CD record emancipation under that I mean 30 songs you know just like here you go I got and I got plenty he was he was known to say if I wanted to hear a new song I just write well that was the other thing too with the record label he wanted to release albums when he wanted to and they felt that was going to saturate the market and they wanted to control how he released the albums that was a big issue and and that leads us to the vault which is like if you're a prince fan you know there's all of this incredible music that they're slowly kind of releasing but we mentioned off the air too being members of the fan club at the time you kind of had access to some of that and it was just a really really uh uh just a great Community songs been that they they'll gradually release that he had in the vault that he didn't release and now unfortunately since he past it's it's been coming out from the estate yeah it was cool to see a lot of that stuff as part of the tour too and not only his outfits which is another thing too is a big influence of mine you know always wearing something unique and getting something custom made and I work with designers too for my shows and I know everybody who knows me listening knows what is he going to wear it's kind of like a thing once somebody said that to me I'm like oh man I got to commit now but you know guys with their gear the this is my gear you know and and it's it all helps the show itself and it influences what I do and how people look around me and so all my shows are fully designed in that way too and Prince did a lot of that as well I mean I've played uh uh First Avenue did you really yeah you know if I would have known I would have wore my shirt today but uh you know such like a legendary venue and uh legendary artist they filmed purple ring yep yep exactly and and Prince you know was supported by the many Apolis Community that's really how he was able to make it this National thing I mean a brilliant really put Minneapolis on the map yep oh yeah and he could play every instrument produce his records the first few albums he played every instrument and produced it himself and wrote the songs and arranged them I mean it's it's really a brilliant brilliant uh artist that uh will be sorely missed I mean it is sorely missed for sure but I love you know these people always want me to do a prince show cuz I do the I do these kind of you know shows and I'll be there yeah yeah for sure cuz you hear the influence in my original music a lot um but it's one of those artists where I'm like I don't know if I need to touch it okay you know it's so there so much music and there's so many different albums that you can take pieces of it would be a challenge actually to put together a show sure because there's so many songs that weren't necessarily popular songs just great songs yeah yeah and I tend to you know like them more and and anybody young people that come to me and want to talk influences I say listen to Prince Right you it'll take you a year but like Listen to listen to the catalog because you will leave being a fan I mean there's there's just it yeah everybody has artist uh songs by artists you don't really like or you don't you don't it doesn't soak in for you but every record you're going to find something you know for every artist in any genre you know he was able to really do it all one of the most underrated guitar players of all time and it's a shame that it took his passing for people to realize what did we have we had somebody amazing that unfortunately happens where you look back it's like I didn't realize how good a guitarist he was and all this great music that he had that happens with me with you know the meatloaf and and Jim Steinman stuff they just passed as well and people don't realize certain things with them or or what that happened how that happened I have a show that I've done in about 40 States that's um dedicated to Amy wiin house oh wow and um she's you know one of the best V vocalists of all time died when she was very young too and and what that career could have been you know we don't know but the the people that come to celebrate the music as we do I don't call it a tribute it's more of a celebration because I'm not looking like her with a beehive or heels though I could if given the challenge um you know people are so into they're weeping you know because they didn't get a chance to hear it live or see it live and maybe they connected with her later or only knew the song Rehab and and and the her struggle surrounding it so they come and they just feel it it's all it's all about that feeling wow I can feel this energy in this room and you did the service you know to this music that that we need to hear see it again because you know you're the one doing it right so it's that's been a real honor and a really cool thing and I and I don't know it I haven't seen anybody living as Prince really delivering that thing and that's to me why he's he just can't really I wouldn't want a prince performance or somebody covering prints to just do hits and that's what I'd be afraid of there's so much there that yeah I want the Deep Cuts definitely want the Deep cuts and and I will say you know being from Jersey and and Asbury Park specifically in this area you know has uh allowed me to do these kinds of things and people to be open-minded to the creativity and trust me with it we have a great scene of original music we have a great scene of cover artists here um you know kind of liken myself to uh song stylists you know kind of like Tina Turner or or Joe Cocker or Tom Jones or uh Frank Sinatra Dean you these people who who didn't really write their music first and foremost they I'm sure they contributed to writing but uh they were given songs and put their spin to it and created something new that's that's to my strength as an Entertainer I think and uh I feel very fortunate to have had in New Jersey but all over the country um people who who like that and trust me with that it's it's been it's been really cool I mean I love being here I love Asbury Park love Jersey love that I can go to venues and go to theaters and and support on all levels but I I really do like the opportunity with connecting with people just all over the country there you go go last question I have uh what do you like about performing in New Jersey and some foods you like about Jersey what what is it that makes the Jersey Shore New Jersey you know special to you it really is like nowhere else I I've I've opened I've opened for uh darling love I've opened for Ronnie Spectre I've sung with Bruce Springsteen I've opened for the Jukes right in Asbury Park I mean some some of it just like walking distance you know from where I live and uh that's special you know there is a there is a feeling in a place like The Stone Pony or the count basy theater or um you know uh even I've done some LBI or you know like there there's really just unique happenings there where people come expecting music and the feeling that it brings that I really like you did say food right you say you food I mean we also uh wait I guess let me interrupt you there pork roll or Taylor Ham what do you call it pork roll there we go okay that's a winner right there yeah I me we're going to let him come back just I for sure I mean for definitely poror I'm I'm a I love diners oh Jersey's got some good diners yeah you can't get them anywhere else like they are in Jersey you know you you really can't you know they're they're like Waffle House on the road or something like that but um I love diner food oh my goodness um even even if I'm trying to eat healthy you can still do it right at a time you got to have that cheat day oh definitely and usually if I have want a cheat day I want to go to with Diner I want that like just give me that greasy stuff give me a plate of fries with cheese and gravy going yes do do it right yeah exactly and of course you know like the best pizza probably in the country in New Jersey too um and I lived in Chicago for years there's no comparison Chicago is with the deep dish right the thick yeah yeah no I would only go if my friends were visiting you know and we say yeah try to Chicago P cuz it's it's really like a it's a pie it's like dense you know it's not the same as the Casual folded to the face slice you know thin crust over a Pete and eldis that's good stuff well that's a I mean I have shirts you know from eating that whole pie for many many years and but that's a great thing too right how cool is that that isn't a thing that happens all over the country or in other places too really New Jersey just has its own kind of thing and even living away from from the state I missed it I missed the accessibility to the cities and the beach and the mountains I mean New Jersey is just like we have it all yeah it's really really really cool well we appreciate you coming on today and talking well I mean talking about food Dave and I like talking about food can do another show on that a doubt but also about music your influence your music Journey performing um influences and then of course you got a bunch of shows coming up this year where people can go out and see you but uh we appreciate you taking our time to come on the show thank you for thinking of me and having me and follow along Instagram remember Jones remember jones.com there it is I'll see you and listen to you guys soon okay thanks again all that is remember Jones more short time with vin and Dave right after this on 943 The Point hey this is Frankie pantang you should be listening to Vin and Dave on 943 The Point yes oh whether you are in the early stages of investing getting ready to retire or planning your estate you need a financial planner who will guide you on a clear path with honesty and transparency 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