Early Career
After a short-lived first year at the Philadelphia Music Academy, Rosenberg abandoned his scholarship to tour with the band Vicki Allen and the Image. A high school friend and fellow musician Rick Gazda called him with “an offer refuse” that brought him from Schenectady, New York to the Stone Pony rock club in Asbury Park. The offer came from Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.
After joining the Jukes, Rosenberg moved to the Shore area and lived in Belmar, Long Branch, and across from the Stone Pony.
In 1981, a Jukes show at The Savoy, now the Hudson Theatre in New York City, caught the attention of Diana Ross's producer, Nile Rodgers who asked the horn section (known as The Miami Horns) to go on the road with her. After a two-year tour with Ross, Rosenberg returned, only to hit the road with Little Steven’s world tour in support of his album Men Without Women.
In the mid-1980s, Rosenberg fine-tuned his own bands, LaBamba and the Hubcaps and LaBamba’s Big Band, made up of 13 horns.
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