How and when did you originally meet Bob Benjamin?
It was somewhere in the early
90’s as I was Barry Bell’s assistant
at Premier Talent Agency working
on Bruce Springsteen and Tom
Petty tours. Barry and Bob knew
each other as Bob was a big fan
of Bruce’s and worked at Billboard magazine. We then started
working together in 1996 on my
4th record Mirrors, Shoestrings &
Credit Cards as that release was
a joint venture between Bob’s
label (Schoolhouse Records) and
my label (SCR Records). We have
since put out 10 more Joe D’Urso
& Stone Caravan releases to date.
Bob become my manager
around 2000/2001 when my
manager at the time left the music business. It was just a natural
progression to have him become
my music manager as we were
friends and worked very well
together. We also had some interesting common threads as we
both lost our Mothers to breast
cancer, grew up along the Hudson River (Bob in Westchester
and me in Rockland) and both
attended college in and around
the warm paradise of Buffalo! We
also love rock and roll.
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