Hey everyone, let me know if I'm boring you all when I get nostalgic like this.
40 years ago this date I worked my first show as an employee of the Great American Music Hall In San Francisco. Four different ownerships later I still work there, supervising and scheduling their sound staff and mixing the shows I really want to do or, in conscience, can't expect anyone else to deal with.
Here, in no particular order are the names of the 40 performers that first came to my mind this morning as "memorable shows". Most but not all are "good" memories. Some of them are famous, some not so much but they all are part of the story.
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Duke Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie
Stephane Grappelli
The Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders Band
Van Morrison
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Woody Herman & His Thundering Herd
Sylvester
Carmen McRae
Ry Cooder
Count Basie Orchestra
Loudon Wainwright III
B B King
Ray Charles
Robin Williams
Art Lande's Rubisa Patrol
Keith Jarrett
The David Bromberg Band
ROVA Saxophone Quartet
Betty Carter
Billy Cobham
Rick and Ruby
Butch Whacks and The Glass Packs
Reilly and Maloney
Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt
The David Grisman Quintet
Sarah Vaughan
KRONOS Quartet
Bonnie Raitt
Oscar Peterson
Benny Goodman
Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe
Jerry Jeff Walker
Joe Pass
Willie Dixon
Atari Teenage Riot
Lauryn Hill
Roy Buchannan
Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra
40 years ago this date I worked my first show as an employee of the Great American Music Hall In San Francisco. Four different ownerships later I still work there, supervising and scheduling their sound staff and mixing the shows I really want to do or, in conscience, can't expect anyone else to deal with.
Here, in no particular order are the names of the 40 performers that first came to my mind this morning as "memorable shows". Most but not all are "good" memories. Some of them are famous, some not so much but they all are part of the story.
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Duke Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie
Stephane Grappelli
The Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders Band
Van Morrison
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Woody Herman & His Thundering Herd
Sylvester
Carmen McRae
Ry Cooder
Count Basie Orchestra
Loudon Wainwright III
B B King
Ray Charles
Robin Williams
Art Lande's Rubisa Patrol
Keith Jarrett
The David Bromberg Band
ROVA Saxophone Quartet
Betty Carter
Billy Cobham
Rick and Ruby
Butch Whacks and The Glass Packs
Reilly and Maloney
Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt
The David Grisman Quintet
Sarah Vaughan
KRONOS Quartet
Bonnie Raitt
Oscar Peterson
Benny Goodman
Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe
Jerry Jeff Walker
Joe Pass
Willie Dixon
Atari Teenage Riot
Lauryn Hill
Roy Buchannan
Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra
