{"id":3189,"date":"2022-07-06T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:19:56","slug":"dominick-grillo-snug-family-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Grillo: Snug family dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/494091751_4160762947493600_589944044745066741_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/494091751_4160762947493600_589944044745066741_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/494091751_4160762947493600_589944044745066741_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/494091751_4160762947493600_589944044745066741_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[Grillo, R, with Dick Deluxe &amp; Laura DeFazio in 2015]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Interviewer, 7\/16\/21:<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><em>So your first time in town [2000], what did you hear about it?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dominick Grillo: <\/strong>About Frenchmen? Nothing, absolutely nothing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I stumbled onto it, after looking around for a little while. Just driving around, figuring it out. I used to drive around to get lost in the city because I was new here. The best way to figure out where you are is to get lost and find your way back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[\u2026] One of my favorite spots ever was Snug Harbor, when George Brumat was around, before he passed away <em>[2007]<\/em>. That was my definitely favorite place to be without playing; it was another place that made Frenchmen home. Like, you go there\u2014you know, being a musician on the street\u2014you just walk into the kitchen and start hanging out with all your friends. It&#8217;s the place where, okay, your girlfriend\u2019s out of work for six months, she needs a job, go ask George and he&#8217;ll help you out. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was definitely a family dynamic. We\u2019d go there maybe once or twice a week. We played poker in the main room, in front of the stage, with like twelve people. I made so many friends just playing that game of poker. And I&#8217;ve never had four kings beat before by four aces in one hand; that was crazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, Jason, George, then the other Jason, and Owen, and everybody there was really just like family. We were all always looking out for each other, trying to help each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>[Hear from Snug&#8217;s Jason Patterson <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>[Stay tuned for full-length interview!]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Grillo, R, with Dick Deluxe &amp; Laura DeFazio in 2015] Interviewer, 7\/16\/21: So your first time in town [2000], what did you hear about it?\u00a0\u00a0 Dominick Grillo: About Frenchmen? Nothing, absolutely nothing.&nbsp; And then I stumbled onto it, after looking around for a little while. Just driving around, figuring it out. I used to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}