![]() Also a big thanks to Doug McClement of Live Wire Remote Recorders a powerhouse Toronto sound company with thousands of insane recording gigs under their belt, Banger hired Doug to helm the recording and instead of driving his Optimus Prime Mega Truck down from Toronto he hired Spineshaker to provide and run the gear. Jimmy your the man thank you so much for the hook up with the show and the mics your a legend dude. Now in hindsight you might say to yourself "wait a minute! some of that shit sucks!", " I can't believe I thought that shit was cool" but just remember you were a kid asshole! Back to back you hear all those songs for the first time and one by one their videos wash over you like the tide and cleanse you of your mountain induced awesome deficiency showing you something new, and different. You never forgot those bands that you found for the first time on your own, and you are honestly not very surprised at how pants shittingly stoked and lucky you are to be hired to record one of them. Flash forward to now, your company Spineshaker Productions was hired to record Chris Cornell! in an intimate solo show!! filmed by Banger Films!!! the guys behind Metal: A Headbangers Journey and Iron Maiden Flight 666!!!! in a sold out show!!!!! on Chris's birthday!!!!!! where he would played for hours!!!!!!! with a long ass encore!!!!!!!!! even bringing his brother out to do a song!!!!!!!! Lets just say your pants were shat.įirst off I need to send a shout out and big thank you to James Hill owner of Amplified Wax Studios in Spokane who recommended Spineshaker for the gig and rented us some extra room mics when other arrangements fell through last minute. ![]() So, ignoring the clock and the sounds of rustling from upstairs you remain vigilant only to be rewarded by the programming gods with the following line up. 2Pac, California Love Bush Glycerine. 311, Down. Beck, Where its at. No Doubt, Spiderwebs. STP, Big Bang Baby. Soundgarden, Blow Up The Outside World and ( ironically) Metallica's, One also Marilyn Manson, Hole, Blackstreet and finally Dr Dre's Aint Nothin But a G Thang. It was unclear at this point as to the depth and degree 40's and volleyball hoes would be affecting your life but when that yellow bikini top gets pulled down it was clear that a formative experience had occurred. You guiltily bathe in the glowing orb, riding the volume and mute button between commercials with a white knuckle dread that someone will hear. They'll come downstairs to find you crouching like a harpy at an eyeball melting distance from the massive 24 inch cathode ray tube and force you to sleep. This can't happen for there will be no telling the next time you would be able pray at the shrine. So this one time, you go on a sleep over and sneak downstairs like a fiend after everyones asleep. Music videos are a whole new level of cool that you found all on your own. The stuff you like right now is cool and all but you only come across it on your friends walkman on the bus or on the radio or in that stack of old records your parents have. ![]() You can't remember the first time you listened to Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd or Hendrix or any other classic shit you've heard since the womb, this shit, it's amazing and you love it, but if you thought hard you'd know its always been there. Occasionally you get the chance to veg out in front of cable TV, and eventually you discover music videos, they land on you hard. Like a fresh hit from the 90's culture crack pipe you realize up until now all the music that you've listened to has been diluted by memory and influence. ![]() You live in the mountains and you have one of those shitty RF antennas shaped like rabbit ears and maybe 6 channels, two of them only come in if you wrap tin foil or stack up a pile of vhs. You're me, you're a kid, you don't really know yet but mtv is still playing music videos and rad shit like The State, Sifl and Olly and OG Aeon Flux before The Real World begat the steaming turd of reality tv on the world before the internet was in everything, and only your baller friends had cable.
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