and most of them, you know, the music was local, but it was van morrison and paul butterfield and it was an amazing array of talentment and so comfortable and felt so natural being in that environment, you know, whether you spent the night or not that it kind of curred to me then that this was really the best way i'd seen music. and so i started to think about a series of concerts, you know, based on that but with larger crowds. and somewhere along the line that summer i started to manage a band called the train. i say manage, who knew what management was. [laughter] someone in the band said would you manage us, and i said sure, and i became a manager. [laughter] but i knew the manager was the guy that did the business, so i figured i had that responsibility. so we needed somebody to support the band and maybe help us get them recorded. and the drummer, a guy named abbey raider, was aware of or friendly with or had some ekg to artie cornfield who was the vice president at capital records. he was a writer, he wrote dead man's curve and the rain in the park and a bunch of hits and was

just so happened that van morrison was in town. so it's de niro, justin timberlake, van morrison, first show. >> brilliant. >> just luck would have it, just the way it works. >> what really makes you laugh? >> i like -- of course i love comedians, any comedian. i love any comedian. >> what can make you laugh out loud? what kind of thing? >> british humor. i'm a big fan of chris morris "the day today," mighty busch. you know those guys? >> yeah. >> mighty boosh is really funny. we had them on the show and they didn't have their visa so they weren't allowed to perform legally. i don't know what that means. they couldn't perform on stage. they had to sit in their chairs. i did the secret policemen's ball five years ago in england. they did this bit, it was so funny, where they came out and one was a very glam guy, one is very straight. have you seen this new hair dryer? he's, like, no, i haven't seen it. you must know the ads. jean-claude puts his jacket on. he goes, no, i don't know. he's said, come on. ♪ then all of a sudden they bo

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