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Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« on: October 08, 2024, 06:10:50 PM »
This video was taken in 1995 when I was working with Jefferson Starship, by someone in the audience on VCR tape. I have the raw on another HDD, but found a copy on YT.

 Diana Mangano, the singer who replaced Grace Slick, and I had a short thing going on. I'm hidden on your right side of the stage, mixing monitors, where she tends to gravitate and look in this song. You can't see me, that in the design. She sang to me a lot lol

Just old memories.

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Re: Vid from my past
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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2024, 01:16:22 PM »
Did she ever sing “one pill looks like barney and one pill looks like fred.”?

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2024, 08:29:01 PM »
Did she ever sing “one pill looks like barney and one pill looks like fred.”?

Pretty sure Flintstone vitamins were bootlegged before they existed.

I did notice I musta stunted her hearing with volume on Lawman. She pointed to her ear for more volume on this quieter song.

She’s kewl chick. Too bad she left a few months later and I was out with someone else, I think Starship, another replacement relationship lol.  that dreaded fork in the road.

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2024, 10:51:03 AM »
Grace Slick sang a parody commercial for flintstones vitamins.

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2024, 05:18:02 PM »
Grace Slick sang a parody commercial for flintstones vitamins.

Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something like that. I’m getting old and forgetting how to tie my shoe laces.

Basically, I’m collecting old stuff I did for my funeral. <blank stare>
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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2024, 09:45:01 AM »
Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something like that. I’m getting old and forgetting how to tie my shoe laces.

Basically, I’m collecting old stuff I did for my funeral. <blank stare>

I'm so old I don't tie shoe laces anymore, I use slipons or velcro.  :D
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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2024, 10:00:45 AM »
I'm so old I don't tie shoe laces anymore, I use slipons or velcro.  :D

Since retirement October 2023 I'd bet 350 days have been t-shirt, gym shorts and flip flops..and that's dressed up lol

Jefferson Starship Miracles is a great 70's cosmic concert memory...



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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2024, 06:47:19 PM »
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I'm so old I don't tie shoe laces anymore, I use slipons or velcro.

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Since retirement October 2023 I'd bet 350 days have been t-shirt, gym shorts and flip flops..and that's dressed up lol

<blank stare> <shudders>

I'm doomed.

I'll need props when I retire to the living room pasture.
I already have beige carpeting for sand. I figure I'll get a palm tree in a planter, a very bright studio UV light for sun, and a Walmart shelf water fall for tinkle ambiance, along with a waves loop my alarm clock. That's all I'll ever need. It'll be great! Chicks will dig me. <cough> <breaks down sobbing> FLIP FLOPS!! I'll have to find my biker boots for decor.

Problem with my era of live sound, I missed all the original on the albums epic legends of 68-75 by 5 yrs. I started in 79-80-ish. In the 80s I'd get them with at least one original member from an album was replaced. But artist from 75 on I got a lot of 100% originals. Not much from the 80s was sustainable unforgettable music, certainly would no longer fill any arena. So they ran fragmented bands from 75 on a lot in the 90s. late 90s on I got all top shelf artist. Kinda sorta didn't matter, because they had all sobered up and were playing superb, even with hired guns. with Single name artist, it matters not. Hired guns are usually better then the prior.

I worked with both Jefferson Starship (w/ Grace Slick replacement) and Starship w/ Mickey Thomas (w/Grace Slick replacement). Different females, but both pulled it off,... sometimes better.

I dunno how da guy did it, but there's only right side sound, mono, but single sided. I'll probably redo them and clean them up. Kansas vid is kind hopeless, as Steve trashed his vocals.


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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2024, 07:56:10 PM »
I worked with both Jefferson Starship (w/ Grace Slick replacement) and Starship w/ Mickey Thomas (w/Grace Slick replacement). Different females, but both pulled it off,... sometimes better.


There was only one Gracie Slick.

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2024, 01:03:18 AM »
Pretty cool, Animal. Looks like you had a lot of fun and some great experiences over the years.

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2024, 08:19:14 AM »

There was only one Gracie Slick.

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Yep. We become imprinted with a face and voice. Even if the replacement is as good or better, its just not the same, and the replacement will never feel 100% confident they are pulling it off and will require more attention. There’s only one Grace Slick, one Alice Cooper one Robert Plant etc..

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Re: Vid from my past - Jefferson Starship 95
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2024, 09:11:38 AM »
Pretty cool, Animal. Looks like you had a lot of fun and some great experiences over the years.

 :rock

Its more bitter sweet. Its a life and soul sucking biz with snakes around every corner wanting your job. Very similar to egos of flight sims. Have one bad event, even if its not your fault, the hyenas come out and within 24 hrs half the industry knows about it and use it as a tool to destroy your reputation and take your job, even if they know they can’t handle it. We all know each other, news passes very quick. I never lost a show,…so not too much worry.

I had a few who were foolish enough to try me. One guy spent years trying to pummel me. When I took the Aretha return tour, I had to pass on a show at a popular venue I worked. This guy finally got his chance as I created a vacuum. He coughed blood on his first show, was fired that night. He just cooked his reputation and was done besides small fest and bars. I torched a few like that. Skyyrs are everywhere.

Your name is EVERYTHING. I spent 45 yrs building my name. The behind the curtains tribe, I was famous to them and artist, high demand, calendar was always stuffed.  Common joe doesn’t know my name, the industry does. I was told when I walk in I make every sound engineer nervous. People I never met knew who I was. Took Chicago Tribune 1.5 yrs to get an interview and have a full page story about me, still out there. Bad editing but it was a kinda tribute.

So when people drag your name into a negative light you’re going to pummel them to pieces.

Key proof my name is clear,… if ANYTHING some here tried to exploit was true I would have NEVER EVER passed a secret service bkg check and be allowed on any president speech. I worked with the last 7 presidents. That aline is proof what some tried to do here is 110% bullsht. I have WH clearance since 91.

Rick Derringer (Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo) cured me of star-struck on my first pro concert in 81. I was a huge fan, was excited. Met him on stage getting ready for sound check, just talking like normal people. Small talk. Then I asked for an autograph and watched him instantly change that I was now a fan and he was the star. Totally changed. It was disheartening. I never asked for a photo or autograph ever again. I took the stance, I can make you or break you with one knob out of 3000, we will speak on an equal professional level or you’ll have a bad night. I get paid to keep the stage and artist in line and performing well. People like Rick James had a bad night.

Most are friendly and respect my power and I respect their status, we have names.. BB King, Alice Cooper and Ringo Starr topped my list of very friendly down to earth people, just cool peeps. BB King was like family for 12 yrs.

Point being, I will protect my name, however ridiculous,  even if I have to go legal. Toy with my name and thou shall feel how hard my bite is. My name feeds me.

Just remember, I’m just another dude, with an odd job, nothing more, nothing less. I leave my work at work and go fishing. :)
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« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2024, 09:23:33 AM »
End of the Chicago Trib article.

.....Can you give my readers a few juicy inside stories regarding the rich and famous?

“As far as going public, I can talk about incidents, but I can’t mention names. It’s like voodoo to us because we do know the inside stuff. If I tell something to some tabloid writer about a celebrity and some other celebrity reads it. That performer could very well say they don’t want me near them because I blabbed something.”

But the celebs probably wouldn’t mind if you told me a nice story about them.

“I worked with B.B. King every year for 12 years at the Holiday Star Theater. B.B. King was special. And I’m not talking about his playing. B.B. King would always thank the sound crew after every performance – which almost nobody does. On his way off stage, he would come right to me, step over all my cables, reach over my console and shake my hand. B.B. King did that after every show for 12 years. He was one of the best humans beings I’ve ever known.”

Great story. One more.

“I was at the Fox Theatre in Detroit with Aretha Franklin; she was the entertainment and Al Gore was flying in to hand out a plaque. I got Aretha’s show set up and everything was fine. There were all these celebrities. There was Secret Service. There also was this little old lady with all these bodyguards around her. She was kinda making me nervous because she just right there. I told a couple of the bodyguards, who were mostly Detroit cops, that the little old lady was distracting me. And that I didn’t want to turn around and walk into some poor old woman in a wheelchair. I asked if they could just back her up a little bit. They all started laughing at me. I’m like, what’s so funny, this is serious. I can’t be distracted during Aretha’s Franklin’s show. Period. They asked me if I knew who the little old lady was. I told them I did not. That’s when they told me: ‘That’s Rosa Parks.’ Unbeknownst to me, that’s who Gore was presenting the plaque to.”

Whoa! What next?

“I told the bodyguards to grab her wheelchair and wheel it right next to me by the console. Rosa sat on my right-hand side and watched me mix Aretha’s show.”

**

[Name Witheld] used to do about 120 shows a year, but he tired of the “carny life” as he puts it. These days he might do two concerts a year. He concentrates on more local corporate gigs.

But I’d say no gig was more prestigious than the one he did for Aretha Franklin in Detroit, where he saw to it that Rosa Parks got a seat “at the front of the bus.”