I started out by hanging out with my friends who were in bands, helping them out as roadie, and eventually promoting music. Back in 1992 I was working as a stage manger at Katina's in Hadley. Dream Theater played there one night, James LaBrie, the singer at the time came up to me and asked what town they were in. I told him that we were in Pelham, so when he got up on stage that night he said to the audience, “Good evening Pelham!”