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  • British Rock Royalty with Brody Dolyniuk / Frankie Avalon

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    It’s been another busy week at work. This last weekend we did a few shows, first a show called The Simon & Garfunkel Story, which was a history of Simon & Garfunkel that featured a live band of S&G impersonators who played with video footage. A pretty good show for any S&G fans. I didn’t…

  • My Generation

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    The band The Hollies, Allan Clarke, wrote one of the greatest rock songs of all time, Long Cool Woman (in a black dress). A song about a FBI agent in a speakeasy who falls for a woman in a black dress and helps her escape a police raid. Many would mistake it for a Creedence…

  • Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band

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    Last night we worked with Al Jardine of the Beach Boys. A good day at work, mostly because his crew and band were easy to work with. That is always the difference in this business. I have done shows here and there with the Beach Boys since the mid 1980’s when they showed up with…

  • Todd Rundgren

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    Last night I worked with Todd Rundgren. He has been around since the 1960’s playing in the psychedelic band Nazz in 1967. His best-known songs include “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw the Light” from Something/Anything? (1972) Most of his songs are still played on classic rock radio stations, such as  his 1978 song “Can We Still Be Friends“. Most people…

  • Get the Led Out

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    Last night we presented a band called, Get the Led Out. Get the Led Out is a tribute band to the great Led Zeppelin. If you are a fan of Led Zeppelin then I highly recommend that you go see this band when they visit your area, as they are the closest sounding band I…

  • Toad The Wet Sprocket

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    If you’re wondering, as I was, where Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from, wonder no more. I asked for us. The name “Toad the Wet Sprocket” refers to a humorous band name proposed in a 1970’s Monty Python sketch called Rock Notes. In the sketch a news reporter talks about a band by…

  • John Waite and Tommy Tutone soundcheck

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    Yesterday I had the pleasure to work with two great artist. I did not work the show but was an A2 on the soundcheck. Headlining the show was John Waite, who is best known for his 1984 hit single “Missing You”, which reached the No. one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100.  Next up,…

  • Latin Rock 24

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    Saturday May, 4 We’re working tonight on what is billed as the Latin Rock & R&B Show. Three Latino rock bands on stage together. In the order they played, the bands are: Thee Midniters Cannibal and the Headhunters  Malo Tonight’s show is hosted by “Shotgun Tom” Kelly of Sirius XM Satalite Radio. Cannibal and the…

  • Pablo Cruise and Jim Messina

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    Today we’re working on Pablo Cruise and Jim Messina. Both bands are traveling together but are using separate sound monitor desks.  Pablo is using our FOH desk and our monitor board but Messina are using their own monitor desk. Complicating things they share the drum kit, but other inputs will be changing in the sub snakes which lead…