Editing Max Weinberg (section)

==Breakup and career choices==
The news from Springsteen left Weinberg "a zombie for about six months".<ref name="kansan-smarsh"/> Even before the band's breakup, Weinberg had returned to school at [[Seton Hall University]] in early 1989.<ref name="mdm-int"/> The band breakup occurred during his second semester at Seton Hall, on his way to completing the remaining 21 credits needed to obtain his bachelor's degree in [[Communication studies|communications]].<ref name="mdm-int"/><ref name="santelli-shu">Santelli, ''Greetings from E Street'', p. 78.</ref> He graduated from there later in 1989.<ref name="usenet-faq"/> He then briefly attended [[Yeshiva University]]'s [[Cardozo School of Law]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22541552.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026130622/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22541552.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 26, 2012 | title=From E Street to 30 Rock | author=Jaeger, Barbara | newspaper=[[The Record (Bergen County)|The Record]] | location=Bergen County, New Jersey | date=April 3, 1994 | format=fee required}}</ref> but withdrew after six weeks.<ref name="nyt062900"/> Weinberg asked [[Ringo Starr]] for advice on how to go on when the band that had made one's life had broken up.<ref name="ap020199"/> Weinberg and Springsteen remained on friendly terms during this period.<ref name="mdm-int"/><ref name="santelli-brk"/>

In 1990, Weinberg began offering motivational seminars oriented towards corporations to augment his one-person college show business.<ref name="usenet-faq"/> He received the HERO Award from [[Big Brothers Big Sisters of America]] in October 1990 for his work for that organization.<ref name="usenet-faq"/> ''The Big Beat'' was republished in 1991.

Weinberg thought his career as a musician was over and considered himself retired as a drummer.<ref name="ap071795"/> He went into the music business instead, joining a distribution company as a business partner. He worked as an executive for the Music Master label.<ref name="schleier"/> He formed his own record company, Hard Ticket Entertainment,<ref name="santelli-brk"/> in 1990.<ref name="usenet-faq">{{cite web | url=http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/conan-obrien-faq/ | title=Conan O'Brien Faq, v.3.1 | publisher=[[Usenet]] alt.fan.conan-obrien | date=January 19, 1997 | access-date=September 6, 2009}}</ref> In 1991, they issued an album that he produced by a group he formed, Killer Joe, called ''Scene of the Crime''.<ref name="santelli-brk"/> He had sought out this career path because "I didn't want to continually be competing with 'Mighty Max',"<ref name="kansan-smarsh"/> but he found business life unfulfilling. Because of that, and for personal reasons as well, he needed to return to performing. Weinberg later reflected, "I felt at times, after the E Street Band broke up, so anonymous it was painful."<ref name="ap071795">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XVogAAAAIBAJ&pg=1208,2221425&dq=max+weinberg+never+maniacs&hl=en | title=Former E Street Band drummer enjoys role with Conan O'Brien | agency=[[Associated Press]] | newspaper=[[The Southeast Missourian]] | date= July 17, 1995}}</ref>

He looked through the [[Yellow Pages]] for jobs and played at [[bar mitzvah]]s for $125;<ref name="nyt062900"/> he later said "[I] was glad to do it."<ref name="nyt012801"/> Weinberg became the live drummer for [[10,000 Maniacs]] in 1992 after their drummer [[Jerry Augustyniak]] was injured five days before a five-week tour.<ref name="ap071795"/> He went after that assignment once he heard it was open and later said, "I lived on a bus and had a roommate. Not exactly like the E Street Band, but I loved it. It reminded me that I am a drummer and I'm good. I was put here to play the drums. To turn my back on that ability was wrong."<ref name="nyt012801"/> He played at the January 1993 [[first inauguration of Bill Clinton|inauguration of Bill Clinton]].<ref name="kansan-smarsh"/> Weinberg auditioned in 1993 to be the principal drummer on the Broadway show ''[[Tommy (rock opera)#1993 stage version|The Who's Tommy]]'', but was selected instead as the second substitute.<ref name="nyt062900"/> Despite the very low pay, Weinberg was nevertheless happy: "I'd buried drumming so far into my psyche. I felt I'd resurrected it."<ref name="kansan-smarsh"/> Of Springsteen's work, Weinberg felt "that I would never get to play these songs again."<ref name="cpd040101"/>