Last night... Brian Wilson
There was a taping of a Yahoo!Music concert that my friend Cait (mcbrennan) invited me to be her guest. The shoe on the other foot! It was very nice. We had my pal Jason from The Explorers Club with us, and I had gotten him into the gig through a friend of mine at Yahoo! and so he had VIP-ness and we didn't. BUT... when we got there, I sweet talked a fellow named Sebastian into letting all three of us in the VIP area, and we were in.
What was great, aside from the 8 or 9 song set that Brian and his 11 pc. band did, was that I got to reconnect with people from my PAST... Harvey Kubernik, Rodney Bingenheimer... two guys I knew from Bearsville (1972-75) and Sire (1977-79) days. Wild. And... BONUS... Harry Shearer! --- who I had the opportunity to chat at length with about The Credibility Gap's "A Great Gift Idea" album --- one of the few vinyl records I own, love and cherish that has never seen the light of day on CD.
Jason leaves tomorrow, but it looks as if he and Andy Paley have written a song or two that we'll try to demo up here at Capitol before his departure. We are going to the Dodger/Diamondback game tomorrow night, and then to LAX for his redeye back to South Carolina.
Good times. In the past 4 days I have reconnected with John Cowsill, Barry Goldberg, Harvey, Rodney... and I have a photo of myself with Joan Jett up on my facebook page that has raised some eyebrows :) LOL.
What was great, aside from the 8 or 9 song set that Brian and his 11 pc. band did, was that I got to reconnect with people from my PAST... Harvey Kubernik, Rodney Bingenheimer... two guys I knew from Bearsville (1972-75) and Sire (1977-79) days. Wild. And... BONUS... Harry Shearer! --- who I had the opportunity to chat at length with about The Credibility Gap's "A Great Gift Idea" album --- one of the few vinyl records I own, love and cherish that has never seen the light of day on CD.
Jason leaves tomorrow, but it looks as if he and Andy Paley have written a song or two that we'll try to demo up here at Capitol before his departure. We are going to the Dodger/Diamondback game tomorrow night, and then to LAX for his redeye back to South Carolina.
Good times. In the past 4 days I have reconnected with John Cowsill, Barry Goldberg, Harvey, Rodney... and I have a photo of myself with Joan Jett up on my facebook page that has raised some eyebrows :) LOL.