The latest installment of our Baristanet Profile series, where we get to know the people in our neighborhood:
Name: Jim Mastro
Where do you live? Glen Ridge
When did you move there? 2001
Where did you grow up? Morris County, NJ.
How do you make a living? Musician and owner of Guitar Bar music store in Hoboken.
Coffee, tea or … ? Wine
What’s your idea of a perfect Saturday? Playing guitar very loud.
What’s your favorite local restaurant? Crockett’s Fish Fry.
What’s on your nightstand? “Confessions of a Yakuza” by Junichi Saga, and “White Bicycles- Making Music in the ’60s,” by Joe Boyd.
Your iPod? Howlin Wolf and Ike Turner.
What are your current addictions? Gencarelli’s Mocha cake, Bloody Mary’s, and The Byrds.
Talent you would most like to have. Jogging
What’s the worst-kept secret about Montclair? That it’s in New Jersey.
What do you hope they say about you at your funeral? He’s late.
Is this the Mastro of The Bongos fame? Because if it is, than whoever is responsible for this should be put in the public stocks for a few hours for his/her ignorance.
It is, indeed.
It is indeed that Jim Mastro, and everyone in Hoboken probably knows that. https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/06/hoboken_business_owner_and_mus.html