My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.
My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.
My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.