August 2016

Dr. E.J. Green!

We are happy to announce that The Backbeat's lead guitarist and backing vocalist, EJ Green has just recently defended his dissertation as a philosophy doctoral student at Rutgers University. He is now officially Dr. Green! EJ has been working hard towards his goal for many years, and now has achieved this amazing feat. EJ, has given numerous lectures all over the world and the United States, thus establishing himself as one of the top intellectual philosophy minds in the field today.

In even more good news, Dr. Green has been hired by NYU as a Bersoff Fellow beginning this Fall teaching and conducting research for the university. Furthermore, he has been hired by the prestigious MIT to begin in the Fall of 2017 as an associate professor! We know once he begins, he will be on a fast track to tenure!

Needless to say, it is great that EJ has attained the goals he has set out to accomplish for himself. He has gained notoriety in his field few have this early in their career. We in the Backbeat family are very proud of his accomplishments and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. Not only that, but we are pleased that he will be close enough next year to be able to perform with the band at hopefully every gig, but in the summer of 2017 we will be sad to say goodbye. Of course, EJ will be more than welcome to come down and perform with the band as many times as he wishes as this band is just as much his as it is mine. It's amazing how fast the last fifteen years have gone, and how far we have come! God bless you EJ, love you man!

~Vinny R.

The Backbeat