DESCRIPTION:
This song arose out of an overheard conversation between my bassist and my guitar player.

'When we were kids, we wrote a glam rock ballad...'

was what I heard. They weren't much older than 11 or 12 at the time, playing music in their parent's basement. I wrote the song in response.

How many kids have, at a super young age, believed that music would save them? Would cement their friendship? Would, if they took a crack at it, lift them out of the 'prison' of teen life, and into the wide open universe-without-rules of being a band. That all they needed was each other and the dream of it.

When the band was learning it in rehearsal, and when we got to a stuttering end, one of the guys started playing Ziggy Stardust - an obvious choice and we ended the song with, instead of 'Ziggy played guitar!', 'We were a band!'.

This video (tho I'm hoping for others by kids that age and shot and edited themselves) is a thumbnail history of the NICKEL & DIME BAND as well as quick shots of every person who played a part in making and performing on this record.

the cast:

rick berlin w/
THE NICKEL & DIME BAND

WHEN WE WERE KIDS

the band:

Jesse Adams-Lukowsky (guit/vox)
Tom Appleman (bass/keys/vox)
Rick Berlin (bells/vox)
Sam Dudley (trombone/vox)
Dino Govoni (sax)
Rob Manochio (bass/guit)
Ricky McLean (guit/vox/keys)
Al Radzikowski (kit/vox)

special guests:

Gary Cherone (vox: whatcha think/kids)
Gordon Gano (fiddle/vox: irish/lil girl/breaks)
David Goodchild (vox: ain't)
Jane Mangini (keys: ain't/street/whatcha think)
Brian McCaffrey (vox: kids)
Sir David Minehan (perc/guit: kids,lil girl/vox)
Jeff Muzerolle (perc)
Ken Pope (theremin)
Aaron Robertson (perc)

engineer/producer: Sir David Minehan
recorded @ Woolly Mammoth Sound
mastered by Bob Westin @ Chicago Mastering Service
label: Teenage Heart Records
cover, disc design: Skye Heitz
graphics: Brian McCaffrey

songs by Rick Berlin
lobsterland publishing
ascap

special thanks:
where we work, hang, JP/all friends, fans, family

Dino Govoni endorsed by Yamaha Saxophones

sites:
https://www.facebook.com/thenickelanddimeband
http://rickberlin.bandcamp.com/