Name	Max Weinberg
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Date of Birth	April 13, 1951
Place of Birth	Newark, New Jersey
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Weinberg was born in Newark, New Jersey to parents Bertram Weinberg, an attorney, and Ruth Weinberg. He grew up in Newark as well as in the neighboring suburban towns of South Orange and Maplewood. He originally wanted to play guitar, but switched to drums when that was the only instrument available in music class in school. By another telling, he knew he wanted to be a drummer from the age of five. His earliest influences were Elvis Presley and his drummer, D. J. Fontana, and The Beatles and their drummer, Ringo Starr. His first public appearance came at the age of seven when he sat in on a bar mitzvah band playing "When the Saints Go Marching In". Weinberg became a local child star, drumming in a three-piece mohair suit at local engagements. He gained an appreciation for showmanship and was a fan of Liberace and Sammy Davis, Jr. He grew to idolize drummer Buddy Rich and saw drummer Ed Shaughnessy of Doc Severinsen's band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as having an ideal job. Weinberg attended Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, a Reform Judaism congregation in South Orange, where he was inspired by a local rabbi and had what he later described as "a wonderful Jewish background." He would later say that the Jewish concept of seder, meaning order, became key to his vision of how a good drummer serves his band's music. Witnessing his father lose two summer camps in The Poconos impressed upon him the fragility of economic success and led to a