Roadmasters recorded our next album there and then…
[Slowly smiles]
Well then, the rest, I guess, is history.
Interviewer’s Notes:
Since their comeback, regardless of some of the bandmember’s side ventures—including DuShawn Williams’s ongoing solo efforts, the Second Coming carrying on throughout the aughts before disbanding in 2011 after Dave Clinton’s partner had their first baby and he wished to spend more time at home with his growing family, eventually becoming (for the most part) a stay-at-home dad, Jesse Simms going on to be a sought-after music producer, and Tim Townes becoming deeply involved in his wife, Marty’s film documentary directorial efforts—Preacher McCade and the Roadmasters released six more albums and toured four times.
All of these albums were recorded in the studio on McCade’s mountain.
The band still records and performs, and to this day is managed by Tom Mancosa.
In 2007, Jesse Simms married Natalie Rathwaite, a paralegal he met while the Roadmasters were organizing their third Legal Aid charity concert.
Natalie Rathwaite-Simms has since become a civil rights attorney, and they have two daughters, aged ten and eight: Delphin (which is, incidentally, Preacher McCade’s middle name) and Genevieve.
Jesse Simms’s mother, Minnie, died when Simms was fifty.
Thus, she lived not only to see her son earn success in one of the most respected, and enduring, rock bands in history, but also the marriages of all of her children, and the births of six (seven) grandchildren.
Simms’s sister, Lana, married an NYPD officer who is now a detective. They have three children. She lives with her family in New York City.
Shortly after these interviews were conducted, Simms and McCade, with Lyla and Lana, encouraged Simms’s sister Penny to enter rehab.
Penny is still married to her second husband, they have one child, and she is sober for the first time in over three decades.
Penny’s first child is still unknown to the Simmses.
After McCade’s parents were found guilty, and the story broke not only about the death of Baptiste McCade, but the conviction of DuShawn Williams and McCade’s parents’ part in that, from before Preacher McCade’s disappearance, until very recently, McCade, the Roadmasters, Tom Mancosa and Williams’s and the Roadmasters’ fans campaigned vigorously for a review of Preacher McCade’s father’s statements as a witness in the prosecution of DuShawn Williams.
DuShawn Williams was exonerated in 2019.
Williams donated the restitution he received to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Loretta and Oscar Williams are both still alive and thus have lived to witness their son’s many accomplishments as well as his name being cleared.
Oscar Williams, and posthumously, his father, Buddy, are in consideration to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their recording careers, as well as their influence and training of not only DuShawn Williams and Preacher McCade, but also Louisiana Jazz, Blues and Funk greats Coltrane Richardson, Maurice “MoMo” Bell, Teona “Baby” Foster and Maryjane Jarrett.
DuShawn Williams and his wife Vanessa have three children, all boys: Oscar, Muddy “Mudd” and John Lee, known as “Buddy”.
Tim Townes and Marty Townes still surf, make music and films and reside in the home in Malibu that Tim purchased at the beginning of the Roadmasters’ rise to fame. A home that they’ve shared since they met.
Other than Brody, they have no children.
Brody Townes is also said to be a world-class surfer. However, even if he’s widely known as one of the best, he did not enter the circuit.
Instead, at the of age seventeen, he started the website RockitRollit.com which is a portal for independent musical acts to submit work, including audio files and videos, in which subscribers can listen, view and make playlists and the artists earn royalties, gather followings and a number have gleaned record deals.
His father provided the startup capital, is a consultant in this venture and all the Roadmasters, as well as Tom Mancosa, sit on the board.
Although Brody Townes is in his early 20s, he’s been declared one of the one hundred most influential people in the entertainment industry and it is known his estimated worth is ten times his father’s.
Dave Clinton met Janey “YB” (short for “Yo, Bitch”) Rogers, lead guitarist of the all-female punk band, Yeah, I Got Tits, in 2008.
After the duo was banned from five hotels in four cities for destroying rooms, in 2009, Rogers announced she was “off the market,” indicating she’d become engaged to Clinton. She did this during a live interview on an airplane, after which she jumped out of it, parachuting safely to the ground.
Clinton and Rogers married on a beach in Fiji in 2010 with Rogers wearing a leopard-print mini-dress reminiscent of Wilma Flintstone and Clinton wearing a misshapen V-neck T-shirt, loose, patterned pants and a shawl-necked collar cardigan much like the fictional “The Dude” Lebowski.
Once named husband and wife, they charged into the surf whereupon Rogers pretended to drown.
The Roadmasters were in attendance and there is a now-iconic picture of the band members and their respective partners standing on the beach close together, laughing at these antics.
Lyla is wearing a T-shirt that states: “I ♥ My Uterus.”
After this picture was published, there was such a run on this T-shirt, at one point, they were selling for $1000.
Clinton and Rogers filed a petition for divorce the very next day which was granted after six months.
And since their wedding, they have never spent a day apart.
Yeah, I Got Tits disbanded in 2012, Rogers briefly fronted the band So What? before she left music altogether and now works as a spokeswoman for a variety of women’s rights organizations.
They have three children, two girls and a boy, Maizie, Daizie and Haizie.
In 1997, Tom Mancosa started an entertainment management agency that specializes in musical acts.
Currently, his company has over one hundred employees that provide management and representation to over two hundred and fifty artists in the music industry.
Mancosa has also been named as one of the one hundred most influential people in the entertainment industry.
Mancosa and his wife Simone have three children, two boys, Frank and Leo, and a girl, Claudette.
Rick Pileggi remains in prison on drug, racketeering, assault and attempted murder charges, serving his life sentence without the opportunity for parole.
Nick Pileggi has been married four times and has six (seven) children by three (four) different women. He is currently employed as head maintenance engineer of the local high school.
Nick Pileggi requested to be interviewed for this project but was denied by the interviewer.
Josh Hardy resides in Los Angeles and, as Simms described during his interview, is a sessions player.
When contacted to offer his version of events, Hardy sent the following statement:
I want nothing to do with anything regarding Preacher McCade and the Roadmasters.