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   Joe D'Andrea talks about meeting the band:
   Amy: When did you first hear of Broadside Electric and what did you
   think of them?
   Joe: First time I heard them was on a quadruple bill at the Chameleon
   Club, Chapman StickŪ Night in 1996. Ray Ashley and I were playing
   together outside of New Jersey for the first time. We played our set,
   and later on these three crazy people [points to Tom, Jim and Helene]
   took to the stage, and we were out in the audience and I just totally
   flipped. I think when I heard "As I Roved Out" - I kind of snapped my
   head to attention. I was watching all the way through but when I heard
   that: "What the hell is this?!"
   Jim: That was an agonizing night, because I was nervous enough about
   playing with these really big Stick players, and then -
   Helene: And there was this assumption that everybody was better than
   you. That everybody was going to play longer than you.
   Jim: That was my assumption.
   Joe: You had Greg Howard who, let's face it, is simply phenomenal.
   Jim: Tom had no control over this, but Tom broke two strings that
   night, and during downtime people would shout out: "Stick solo!" And
   I'd be "Oh, God ..."
   Joe: I was just too into it, and I know your soundman, Mike Ciul, was
   there at the time. I didn't know who Mike was, I didn't know he was
   associated with you at that point. Anyway, we all chatted afterwards,
   and I think we discovered we all liked Steeleye Span, and we took
   photos. Somehow, I don't know if I brought it up or somebody brought
   it up: Horslips. [Horslips is an Irish folk / rock band] Someone said
   "Hey, we gotta get together and do a Horslips tribute."
   Tom: I don't remember that coming up that night.
   Joe: Yeah! That came up, and we agreed "we'll have to do that
   sometime." And that's the last I heard of them for a while. But at the
   time I was thinking: "Man, I would kill to play drums in that band
   someday."
   Jim: Who did you kill?
   Joe: Oh, I meant that metaphorically.
   Helene: And deep down we were thinking: "Wow, a drummer who likes
   Steeleye Span. This must be who we've been looking for all this time.
   Too bad he lives so far away. It'll never happen."
   Joe: That's what I thought: "I'm just too far away to do anything
   useful." So I pretty much thought it was a nice pipe dream and
   eventually forgot about it.
   
   
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