Secret Sound circa 2000 at Plum Street Pub in New Brunwick.
When and why did you form
Secret Sound? Why did you
want to augment playing jazz
with playing in a jam band?
Secret Sound formed in the fall
of 1999 when I was a wee lad at
school at Rutgers University. We
had the opportunity to play ev-
ery Wednesday at the Plum Street
Pub, which was a classic New
Brunswick dive, only divier. Secret
Sound came out of that regular
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gig. I was in school for jazz, but
already loved the Grateful Dead
and Phish. All of my non music
major friends were into that mu-
sic, the hippy lifestyle and I was
no different. We played Dead,
Allman and Dylan covers but also
threw in tunes by Weather Report,
Horace Silver and some original
instrumental tunes that veered
toward a jazz sound, thereby forg-
ing Secret Sound’s identity. The
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