In this episode of Can’t Find My Way Home, I was joined by Robert Castelli.

Robert is a native of Ossining, New York…Born into a family of drummers (a grandfather, two uncles & his father), Robert learned the basics from his father, who, along with his Uncle, were lifetime members of the NYC Musicians Union.

We get into the finer aspects of Robert’s expat journey and how it’s taken him first to Austria and now on to Barcelona where he’s called home for six years.

Robert and I discuss his family roots in the music business. What’s it like being a drummer who writes music for the band? How he got into jazz in the first place, his musical influences, the modern economic model for musicians today, how the perception of music has changed,as well as apocryphal tales of Frank Zappa.

We get a bit grammatical - pre and post covid plans,  and Robert tells us how working as an investment broker in New York enabled him to pursue his career in music.

In the Top 5, we have Iggy Pop, singing drummers…and the complexities there of, Medeski Martin & Wood, not being fans of Ginger Baker or Keith Moon (in a manner of speaking), and late night Karaoke in NYC, and why all roads lead to Miles Davis…

All this and we ponder - just what are the three things people don’t have any more?

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