My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

" He played at the January 1993 inauguration of Bill Clinton. I used to think when I was a kid what a great job that must be – you know same place every time everyday. Weinberg rose to success as the drummer for Springsteen's E Street Band as his powerful yet controlled beat solved the E Street Band's drumming instabilities.

Weinberg's drums-driven jump blues sound and his role as a comic foil prospered along with the show giving him a second career. 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. In 2009 Weinberg moved to the short-lived Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as leader of Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band.