Steve Nathan

I ended up keeping my session Wurly with all original parts, but when I was thinking about doing this, I talked to both extensively and remember feeling much better about Warneck.

Here's the 44. Looking for the 22 now. The good old days😉

I think I suggested Etta James and Faith Hill too, but we didn't talk about them either 😝 As far as "Most Associated With", McGraw of course, but I also did a lot of records with George Strait, Reba, Lee Ann Womack, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Shenandoah......

Funny. I was a toddler when Murphy's was jumping. We went there a few times to eat and hear Marion Healy (my teacher) but my strongest memory is of a lobster tank!

Hey Joe, I'm pretty sure there's no relation. There's also a pretty successful writer/artist named James LeBlanc in Shoals who's not related to Lenny either. I don't think we got into why I left Shoals for Nashville in part 2. It's a long story, and I'll do my best to shorten it here. Shoals success as a place to make records was almost entirely because of the musicians. Artist all over the world heard the records coming out of there and wanted to go there to make their records. This was still the case when I got there in the late 70s, but by the late 80s-early 90s, the landscape for pop records had changed dramatically. The top 10 was now dominated by Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, etc, records made with Linn Drums and synths, mostly recorded one instrument at a time. The motivators to record with live musicians were waning, especially live musicians known for making the records the current generation only knew as their parents kind of records. Work got sparse in Shoals, and I started venturing out to other places to earn a living. There were great studios in Nashville, but also in Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Chicago and I was soon on a merry-go-round of loading gear into my station wagon and driving from session to session. It was constant, and I'd find myself in Nashville one day, Atlanta the next, back in Nashville, up on Lookout Mountain, down to Birmingham, flying to Chicago, then back to Shoals to load up and head to Atlanta for a few days, then over to Shoals, up to Nashville...................... It was exhausting, and after a couple of years like this I was burning out. I remember pulling into a gas station around 2 AM one night, and when I got back in the car, I couldn't remember which way to turn. Then I realized, I couldn't remember where I was going, and I couldn't remember where I had just been. My wife said I needed to pick one of these towns and move there for good. I loved the work I was doing in Chicago and Atlanta, and two of the producers I worked for regularly made me offers for a permanent position, but they were almost entirely Movie, TV and Jingle accounts. Nashville was still a place where records were made with a bunch of musicians in the room at the same time, and that's what I loved best, so Nashville it was.

In the late 70s, I went on tour with LeBlanc and Carr, opening for Journey and Ronnie Montrose. They swapped drummers in the middle of the tour, with Steve Smith leaving Montrose, going to Journey, and Ainsley Dunbar taking the gig with Ronnie. Every night after the show, we'd head to the hotel and find the lounge and if there was a band, me, Gary Baker, Steve Smith and Steve Perry would convince them to let us play and we'd play Soul and R&B into the night. Perry loved singing R&B, Knock on Wood, Mustang Sally, Hold On, I'm Coming, etc. He knew all the classics (as did me, Gary and Smith), and he sang the crap out of them. We loved playing with each other after the "Real" show maybe more than we did playing to the throngs in the arenas. I got to know both Steves well and never once saw anything even remotely like arrogance or controlling. And I can attest that if the Steve Perry of 1977 came on the scene today, he would never need Autotune. 😉

Eagles tours are legendary indications of how people who won't speak to each other will still get on stage and sing together for the money.

Stumbled across this today, which I'd never seen before. There's no keyboards, 🙁 and you have to kind of ignore the vocal, but holy crap, listen to him play. I went to work almost daily for a couple of decades with this guy. Talk about having a charmed life!

Without getting political, this fight has been about politics first and money as a result of politics all along. Cain is married to Paula White. Both are deeply connected to the former President and much of the so-called White Christian Nationalist movement. Schon is solidly on the Progressive end of the political spectrum. I won't comment on my personal politics here in the KC, but wanted to illustrate that in this fight, each is convinced that the other's politics are damaging the Journey brand which ultimately means less money. There's a similar dynamic between Richie Furay and some of the former members of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, though it hasn't risen to this level publicly.

I used one of those (with the back attachment) for years to play organ. My organ stayed in it's cartage case which added too much height for a "regular" seat. It's held up well even after years of abuse!

This seems obvious to me. If you think of the connection between your brain and your fingers as a highway, the road when on a great sounding and feeling "real" instrument is going to be smooth, freshly paved and free of traffic. When playing an instrument with "issues", those issues are like potholes, inescapable hazards that are nearly impossible to ignore.

And don't forget Festivus!

Herb Jeffries

Maybe violates the "No Politics or Religion" rule, but it's technically a Christmas song 😏 I love to listen to my friend Gordon, but watching his fingers makes my head hurt!

One more, though it's my old friend Matt who (like always) blows me away with his DEEP POCKET 😎😎

Keyscape Demo. This cat is so funky 😎

Did The Keyboard Chronicles with Dave and Paul. My first Podcast (is it still a Podcast if there's video?), and had fun. I probably yakked like a Columbian in a coke field, but I did enjoy talking about old days and a little new stuff. Thanks for putting up with me fellas. 😃

Al Green for the win!

This is a live cover, but ever since, I can't hear any one else sing this song.

"More Than You'll Ever Know" is another Donny track that imho beats the crap out of the original.

Let me try this again. James over Marvin?? I'll have to disagree with ya on this one 😁

I must be thinking of some other song Taylor did that was "paler" than the original 😉

James Taylor over Sam Cooke??? Have to disagree on that one.