Visual Sound: Issue 28
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
“Radio Nowhere”
Hey, that’s not “Mighty” Max Weinberg on the drums with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in Barcelona Spain at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys on June 22. It’s his son Jay. Jay Weinberg is usually a headbanging metalhead who currently drums for Suicidal Tendencies where he plays it heavy and fast. (You can tell by watching him here. The kid’s good!) He formerly played in Slipknot. Bruce hasn’t performed “Radio Nowhere” in seven years. Jay did it with Bruce once in 2013. Jay was behind the kit for most of the E Street 2009 tour when his dad’s responsibilities as part of the house band for The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien prevented him from touring.
Palmyra Delran
“You’re My Brian Jones”
From 2013 comes a delicious slice of punk-pop from Princeton-born Palmyra Delran. It’s from her recently re-released You Are What You Absorb album on Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records. Filmed in Tenneessee by producer Price Harrison, it was directed by Daniel Henry with cinematography by Dustin Lane.
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Patriarchs In Black
“Before I Go”
Type O Negative/Danzig drummer Johnny Kelly and Hades/Non-Fiction guitarist/composer Dan Lorenzo—from Paramus—form the backbone of Patriarchs In Black. (The pair utilize different singers and bassists on each project.) Their 2022 Reach For The Stars debut preceded last year’s My Veneration. Their third album, Visioning, came out last month on Germany’s Metalville Records with singer Karl Agell of COC, Blind and Lie Heavy plus Dog Eat Dog bassist Dave Nabore. Jay Bones did the video.
Rory D’ Lasnow
“Power Of My Love”
This third single off of Bergen County singer-songwriter Rory D’Lasnow’s Songs From An Empty Room was inspired by the death of his mom when he was 14. “The song was written in about an hour.” D’Lasnow noted. “I had just attended a memorial in remembrance of my friend’s cousin who was tragically killed in the New York City terrorist attack. The young man, Darren Drake, had been a passionate advocate for kids aspiring to vocational careers and his family started the Darren Drake Foundation in his honor. I was so moved by the impact this man had made on his community, that I came home and wrote this song in one piece.
“I had been planning to release the song on the 21st of May,” continues Rory, “when my father became more gravely ill. After a long battle with a variety of persistent ailments, he passed away on the 8th. I had contemplated postponing the song’s release, but quickly resolved to share it with the world in his honor as he was the one who handed me my first guitar, taught me my first chords, and was my biggest supporter when I chose to pursue a career in music. There seemed to be no more fitting tribute to him than to champion a message of perseverance in the face of adversity. Grieving is a universal experience and I wanted to remember my dad, much like Darren’s loved ones remembered him, by telling the story of love overcoming any obstacle.”