Bobby Mahoney Predicts ‘Another Deadbeat Summer’

Written By Mike Greenblatt
Bobby Mahoney

Fitting that we post Bobby Mahoney today on the first day of summer as the band’s new Wicked Cool Records record—Another Deadbeat Summer—should revitalize interest in this longtime Asbury Park attraction. The title tune’s video can be seen below. Dig that sax break! For the uninitiated, Bobby Mohoney is a band. It’s also the name of its lead singer.

As the singer says, “it was originally written in two sittings. In 2014, I started the song alone in my dorm at William Paterson University in Wayne and then finished it with Jon Alba at my parents’ house. It’s about a wild high school party and the observations I made as an attendee, feeling like an outsider.”

Bobby Mahoney will perform it and other jet-propelled ditties in Toms River July 6 at The Kill Shed; back home in Asbury July 12 at Wonder Bar; and in Brooklyn July 20 at Kingsland before heading across the pond for gigs in Germany and England.

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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