Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95

[Brooke]

Nifty.

I went to a Jefferson Starship concert in Nashville last year.  Not all original members, of course, did have Friedberg and Baldwin.

I loved hearing and seeing Jude Gold's version of this:

[Brooke]

Animal, what are some of your favorite songs, not just from Starship, but overall?

[Animl-AW]

Wow, thats seriously hard to answer.
I’ve heard stuff from all over the world and every genre.
Example: a missionary in the jungles of Africa found this group of people/tribe with hand made instruments, some I’ve never seen. Like a single string guitar type. The way he played it you’d never think only one string. He dragged them out of the jungle and fkew them in for a special event. It was killer music.

Done stuff from Cuba, Japan, China, Africa etc… one thing you discover really fast, even though you may not understand the language you know what they are singing about,…love, love lost, pain, happiness, hope. Same stuff we sing about.

I can like something out of every genre, but rap and hip-hop, techno, autotune crap not to fond of.

I can enjoy everything from symphonies to metal. I have an extremely wide range to narrow it down.

I probably have 1000 fav songs. Anything thats done well I can like, simple to complex.

However, because its done so damn well, I’ve never put on a Pink Floyd album and be disappointed. It has a definite immersion. It really pulls you in.
 Probably tops the list of greatest bands to me.

Every week I can be into something else. Before getting in the biz I was a big Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin fan, on the flip side Willie Nelson, Allman Bros., Marshall Tucker Band,  even some John Prine.

I also like clean sounding guitar stuff like Joe Satriani, rock blues by Joe Banamassa. If its done well I’ll find something to like about it. If it puts me on an emotional roller coaster I’m game. To me, old skewl blues depresses me, its triggers, I jeep a distance.

Music is usually triggers of some time in our lives, its extremely personal preference.

[icepac]

Have you ever been asked to “pipe in applause”? 

[Animl-AW]

Have you ever been asked to “pipe in applause”?

No.
Thats more of TV studio stuff like SNL, game shows, talk shows, where there is a studio audience.
We have workers in those areas, I’m just not one of them. I do/did concerts snd live event stuff. I don’t recall us ever being asked nor doing it.

[icepac]

I was at a football game and could hear cheering and applause behind me. 

I was in the nosebleed seats (Bob Uecker seating) with like 8 other people and could hear 1000 voices cheering behind me. 

[Animl-AW]

I was at a football game and could hear cheering and applause behind me. 

I was in the nosebleed seats (Bob Uecker seating) with like 8 other people and could hear 1000 voices cheering behind me.

I thought you meant flashing sign.lol

I’ve never inserted applause tracks in what I do.
But ya, its def done in certain situations for theatrics.

i’ve run vocal track in a concert chick dancing act, ONCE. Big turn off for me. Ya just cannot jump up and down and hold a vocal note, maybe they should not clown the stage. Took GaGa 6 months to be able to do halftime show with no vocal track for one song. I find it putrid how much its done. I won’t work for an act that does that, basically any dancing singers.

There was a late 60s-early 70s band that the singer acted like he was play bass and keyboard player was triggering bass tracks. Good guys, fun to work with. Which I did often.


There are some singer who play s guitar that's not even plugged in, nor a track. All show.

[Animl-AW]

Can only find garbage vids it seems, <eye roll>
These guys were fun to work with, usually in a package show with the Buckinghams.

Rob, on the BASS, a good guy, kinda wild

[Animl-AW]

Nifty.

I went to a Jefferson Starship concert in Nashville last year.  Not all original members, of course, did have Friedberg and Baldwin.

I loved hearing and seeing Jude Gold's version of this:

Ya might like this from Steve Morse (Gtr), believe it or not ended up touring with Deep Purple for years in place of Richie Blackmore

[Animl-AW]

The roller coaster ride

Another great human

[Animl-AW]

Palette cleansor

[Animl-AW]

[Animl-AW]

<Wipes hands>

[Oldman731]

The roller coaster ride

Another great human

Chet Atkins. 

My father was so into stereos in the 1960s.  I remember when the local FM station first broadcast in stereo (Columbus, Ohio).  You needed two radios capable of receiving FM, and had to place them in different spots in the room and sit in between them.  It was a special broadcast, I think on one Sunday afternoon.  He was in Heaven.  From then on, he was building stereo receivers from kits (wish I could remember the name of the kit company) (and now I do, Heathkit), soldering the boards, getting such a kick out of it, then building speaker cabinets, wiring it all together.  It continued to fascinate him until personal computers came along.

What, you might ask, does this have to do with Chet Atkins?  One of the first stereo records that we had to play on all this home-built equipment. included a Chet Atkins song, "Back Home in Indiana."  I heard that over and over and over again.  I can hear it now, more than half a century later.  It reminds me of my father, and of all the joy he got from music, up until the Alzheimers took him. 

Thanks, Animal, you brought up good memories for me.

- oldman

[Animl-AW]

GA loved his heavy pour Bloody Marys