The Passion of 10000 Maniacs
FREE WEEKLY The People’s Paper. A Division of Chautauqua Marketing Solutions • Vol: 01, Number: 25 • September 26, 2011 THE PASSION OF 10,000 MANIACS – MUSIC FOR THE HEART AND MIND Editor Walter Pickut “What are you passionate about?” Steve Gustafson always challenges his students with that question. “When you find out, see if you can make a career of that.” Jamestown’s 10,000 Maniacs become world famous and never wanted to, say Steve Gustafson and Dennis Drew, two of the band’s original members and founders. It’s not that they didn’t want fame and fortune, they simply loved to make music first and they enjoyed entertaining people. “This looks like fun,” Steve and Dennis agreed in tenth grade when they compared notes 10,000 Maniacs Celebrate 30 Years – Jerry Augustyniak, Steve Gustafson, Mary Ramsey, Jeff Erickson and Dennis Drew. on their favorite music. “We were on a search to find our out with joy.” same terms. “We love the crafting of passion,” Gustafson said recently, relaxing songs.” Dennis said, “We talked about stuff with his feet up on his desk beneath the A picture of that old music bus, its gypsy band of Maniacs and hundreds of rare we read in the paper, stuff nobody wrote framed, multi-platinum 1993 live album songs about. It came out of who we were.” MTV Unplugged. His office is the control and fascinating artifacts from the personal collections of Dennis Drew and Steve It was also risky, Steve added. “The hardest deck at the back of The Sharman Theater at part was telling your band mates your Jamestown Community College.
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