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Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''. Weinberg grew up in suburban New Jersey and began drumming at an early age. He attended college planning to be a lawyer but got his big break in music in 1974 when he won an audition to become the drummer for Springsteen. His powerful but controlled playing on albums such as ''Born to Run'' and ''Born in the U.S.A.'' stabilized the E Street Band sound and Weinberg became a mainstay of Springsteen's long concert performances. Springsteen dissolved the band in 1989 and Weinberg spent several years considering a law career and trying the business end of the music industry before deciding he wanted to continue with drumming. In 1993, Weinberg got the role as bandleader of The Max Weinberg 7 for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. Weinberg's drums-driven jump blues sound and his role as a comic foil prospered along with the show, giving him a second career. In 1999, Springsteen re-formed the E Street Band for a series of tours and albums; Weinberg worked out an arrangement that allowed him to play with both O'Brien and Springsteen. In 2009, Weinberg moved to the short-lived ''Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' as leader of Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. After that ended, he began touring with his own ensembles and in 2010 chose not to follow O'Brien to the new ''Conan'' show. Weinberg continued playing with Springsteen and in 2014 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. ==Early life== Weinberg was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey〔 p. 33.〕 to parents Bertram Weinberg, an attorney, and Ruth Weinberg, a high school physical education teacher.〔 He has three sisters, Patty, Nancy and Abby. He grew up in Newark as well as in the neighboring suburban towns of South Orange and Maplewood.〔Radio interview by Sherry Ross of Max Weinberg during second intermission of New Jersey Devils/Phoenix Coyotes game on Thursday March 12, 2009.〕 The young Max was exposed to music early on, attending Broadway shows weekly from the age of two and liking the big sound put forth by the pit orchestras.〔 He then liked the rhythms of country and western music.〔 He knew he wanted to be a drummer from the age of five, when he saw Elvis Presley and his drummer, D. J. Fontana, appear on ''The Milton Berle Show'' in April 1956.〔〔 Decades later, Weinberg said, "I think anybody who wanted to develop a life in rock 'n' roll music had a moment. That was my moment,"〔 and Fontana became a major influence on him.〔Benarde, ''Stars of David'', p. 237.〕 Weinberg started actually playing at the age of six.〔 His first public appearance came at the age of seven when he sat in on a bar mitzvah band playing "When the Saints Go Marching In".〔〔 The bandleader, Herbie Zane, was the leading act for bar mitzvahs and weddings in the area; he became enamored of Weinberg and brought him along on other engagements as a kind of novelty act.〔 Weinberg thus became a local child star, drumming in a three-piece mohair suit.〔 He gained an appreciation for showmanship and was a fan of Liberace and Sammy Davis, Jr.〔 He grew to idolize drummer Buddy Rich〔 and become a fan of Gene Krupa and saw drummer Ed Shaughnessy of Doc Severinsen's band on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' as having an ideal job〔〔 as well as admiring the level of playing and serious sartorial style of the Tonight Show musicians.〔 Weinberg stayed with Zane until junior high school and learned rhythms such as cha-chas, merenges, polkas, and the hora and playing everything from Dixieland jazz to Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore".〔 Weinberg attended Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, a Reform Judaism congregation in South Orange, where he was inspired by a local rabbi and had what he later described as "a wonderful Jewish background."〔 He would later say that the Jewish concept of seder, meaning order, became key to his vision of how a good drummer serves his band's music.〔 Witnessing his father lose two summer camps in The Poconos impressed upon him the fragility of economic success and led to a strong work ethic.〔 When the British Invasion hit in 1964, the Beatles and their drummer, Ringo Starr, became a huge influence on Weinberg.〔〔Benarde, ''Stars of David'', p. 238.〕〔 He began playing in local New Jersey rock bands, playing the music of The Rolling Stones, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and The Young Rascals.〔 While a member of The Epsilons, he played at the 1964 New York World's Fair.〔 He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood;〔 there he knew Leigh Howard Stevens, who would become a famous percussionist in his own right. Weinberg graduated from Columbia High in 1969.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Columbia Senior High School )〕 Another band he was in, Blackstone, recorded an eponymous album for Epic Records in 1970.〔 Weinberg first attended Adelphi University, and later Seton Hall University, majoring in film studies.〔 p. 117–118.〕 His general goal was to become a lawyer,〔 but he was still most viscerally interested in a music career and kept his drum set in his car in case any chances to play arose.〔 He performed at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and bars,〔 then landed a job in the pit band for the Broadway musical ''Godspell''.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Weinberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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