FLAG WAVING: Declaration of Independents first get to know Carlo Nuccio in the late '80s when he was serving as singer/songwriter Pat mcLaughlin's drummer in Los Angeles. Nuccio went on to take the traps chair in the Continental Drifters, a star-studdend ensemble that played a long residency at the late, lamented Hollywood Boulevard dive Raji's.
In 1992, Nuccio returned to his hometown of New Orleans; he explains, "Those damn (L.A.) riots kinda scared me. I said, 'I've gotta go back to where people shake hands.'" The rest of the Drifters - former dB's leader Peter Holsapple, his wife Susan Cowsill; and Vicki Peterson fo the Bangles - followed his lead, and the group became a Crescent City fixture.
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