Benny Goodman was entitled to spend two weeks at a summer camp near Chicago. It was the only time he could get away from his bleak neighborhood. He also received two years of instruction from classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp. When he was 17, his father was killed by a passing car after stepping off a streetcar. His father's death was "the saddest thing that ever happened in our family", Goodman said. He attended Lewis Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high-school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band. His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists
Marshall Goodman and friend Michael Happoldt. Goodman and Happoldt also conducted the reunion of LBDA in 2012. 2012: Goodman programmed drums and scratched on Slightly Stoopid’s album "Top of the World" and performed scratches live with band on numerous occasions in 2012 and 2013, including the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Show and the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre. In November 2016, Goodman was elected city councilmember for the City of La Palma, California. Goodman is a Vic Firth artist and uses the following drumsticks: He also uses: Marshall Goodman Marshall Goodman (born January 31, 1971), known professionally as Ras MG