Scofflaws Frontman Brooks Still Rockin' Steady

 I got to do a fun story I'd wanted to do for years, even decades. 

Richie Brooks was my late-bus driver in high school. He wore a porkpie hat and had installed a cassette player on the bus's dashboard. 

When I was the last one on the bus, he'd invite me to move up to the front, and would play cassettes for me, exposing me to music I did not know. 

Like ska. 

A few years later, we'd go see his band, the Scofflaws. 

Thirty five years later, Brooks is still the frontman for the band--singing and playing an array of saxophones. 

I visited him on Long Island and wrote this.