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show online every week at his website (DrDemento.com). There’s even a huge streaming archive of his classic shows from the 70s on- ward available to subscribers. UPCOMING SHOWS Wednesdays at Havana, New Hope, PA His show was definitely an acquired taste. Growing up in New Jersey were many of your friends fans of the show as well? Yes definitely, and most of them were introduced to the show, and the albums, by me! It was a huge deal in the 80s. That’s when the song and the music video for the original version of “Fish Heads” by Barnes & Barnes became part of the fabric of pop culture, and “Weird Al” Yankovic started to be- come a household name. The album features an impres- sive roster of artists.  Were most of the them excited to be part of the album?  Did the artists get to choose the songs they did or did you assign songs to them? NJ STAGE - ISSUE 54 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 86