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ger reported that Mick Jagger was spotted surfing at Ditch Plains. He said that five minutes before I started speaking with him on the phone, he was in the Montauk Bake Shoppe and people were staring at him and whispering, and that one person asked for his picture. “The other day we were in Southampton and there was a bench full of girls screaming at my wife and me, yelling out ‘Mick Jagger! Mick Jagger! Mick Jagger!’” Public reaction to Delia being in town has included, for the most part, respect. He said people come up to him and tell him what big fans they are of the Rolling Stones. Delia responds by saying, “I’m not who you think I am,” and is on his way. Some believe it, some don’t. Often, Delia says, people just assume that he’s Mick and start talking to him and taking his picture. “What am I supposed to do when they do that? If they’re a little drunk, some of the girls get angry at me for saying that I’m not him. They want to believe so bad.” In one instance, there was an 80-something grandmother who was convinced that he was Mick, “After I told her grandson that I wasn’t, he begged me not to tell her the truth. ‘She’s old, she won’t know the difference, you just made her whole life’ he said to me.” Delia says there’s little he can do about it. “It’s pretty funny, but we don’t want to break anybody’s heart,” says his wife. “But he is not Mick
Jagger.” Even when playing with his band Dan Bailey and the Living Rhythm and getting introduced as Joe Delia, people still think that he is Mick. That misconception has been great for the bands Delia plays with because people come from all over to see him. “Overall it’s been fun and I’ve been rolling with it and been getting a good laugh. But a part of it can kind of get me down as a musician and being a serious musician my whole life and making a career out of it. It would be nice to be recognized as Joe. I’m now pretty well known out here as a musician just because I look like Mick Jagger and that makes me feel a little strange. I’m not trying to put anybody on nor have I altered my appearance in any way, I just LOOK like the guy.” And so, let it be known, there is a very, very talented musician out there named Joe Delia. He has created music for films such as Body Snatchers, The Blackout and Fever, and has been a professional musician since he was a teenager in the ‘60s, playing in backup bands for Stevie Wonder, The Crystals and Chuck Berry. Today, he lives in Montauk and plays in the band Dan Bailey and Living Rhythm and in his own band called Thieves. You can catch him playing at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on September 5, and on September 25 at the Montaukett in Montauk with Theives.
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