Wednesday at the Family Values show I had a “Spinal-Tap” type interview.
Ron (our on-site promo man) and I went back stage to interview Amy Lee of Evanescence, but due to some confusion she was not ready to roll. We knew that we had an interview set with Vinnie Paul of Hellyeah, so we just stayed back stage to wait for the call from management.
When the call came, it turned out that vinnie’s bus was out front by the 2nd stage, all the way on the opposite side of Pink Knob, so we jogged over to the bus, got set up in record time and started recording on the WRIF digital Marantz hard disc recorder. 3 minutes into the conversation, the machine breaks down.
Vinnie to his credit was laughing and talking about crazy #*%# like this happens to him all the time. He agreed to wait and I ran to the WRIF broadcast RV, slithered in the door where Doug Podell was live on the air with Atreyu, and grabbed my trusty Chop Shop mini disc recorder and scooted back to vinnie’s bus.
We resumed the interview, and took a couple of photos, then went back to the RV to figure out how to piece the 2 digital sources together.
The station has a 3rd digital option, a recorder/editor called the short-cut. I knew I could feed both the Marantz and the Mini Disc into the short-cut and edit the interview into one piece, but where was it.
It turned out that while I was doing all this Amy Lee was ready for her interview so Anne Carlini had the short-cut with her back stage to do that interview.
When Anne returned, I was set to get everything put together and ready for broadcast when suddenly the power on the RV went out. To shorten the story, we kept tripping a breaker at DTE and it took me until almost 5pm to piece together an interview I recorded at 1:30pm.
But hey we persevered and delivered in true RIFF fashion!
¶ 8:22 PM
Monday, July 23, 2007
fishing
My family has been in town visiting from Arizona for the last week +. I always miss them but it really becomes clear just how much when you get to see them, and laugh with them.
I took my Dad and Brother Dave fishing while they where here, it was the first time in more than 20 years that we all went fishing together.
Speaking of fishing, I’ll be at the Lenover’s/Portifino fishing tournament and clinic tomorrow (Tuesday) from 4pm to 8pm at Portofino in downtown Wyandotte. Bring the kids and I’ll see you there.
¶ 10:37 AM
SBF award dinner
We have confirmed that we will be presenting the 1st Sabrina Black Foundation dinner/award banquet. It will be on Friday, September 7th at Andiamo’s, and will be hosted by TV Star Dave Coulier.
We will pay off a cancer patients hospital bill that night, honor a local cancer nurse, provide dinner and comedy for $100 a ticket with all the proceeds to go to the foundation.
I should have ticket information in the next two weeks!
¶ 10:26 AM
Black is Back
I’m back from vacation. My girlfriend Gina and I took a quick trip up to Mackinaw Island and had a magnificent time. It so great to be outside, get lots of exercise including all that bike riding. It was also nice to get away from the sounds of the city and the cell phone!
¶ 10:15 AM
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Perfect 10 (20) Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen is out of rebab, and he looks great. Eddie is on the cover of the new guitar World Magazine pimping his new Fender 5150 III amps, and he looks fit, tan, and happy. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a photo of Edward smiling? He even cut his hair and got his teeth fixed.
Anyway, now seems like the perfect time to share my perfect 10 VH songs of all-time.....and as usual I love them too much to stop at 10.
1. 5150
2. Little Dreamer
3. D.O.A.
4. Little Guitars
5. I'm The One
6. Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do
7. Take Your Whisky Home
8. Mean Street
9. Feel Your Love Tonight
10. Take Me Back (Deja Vu)
11. Outta Love Again
12. Drop Dead Legs
13. The Dream is Over
14. So This is Love
15. Dreams
16. Bottoms Up
17. Poundcake
18. Cabo Wabo
19. Ice Cream Man
20. Fools
¶ 12:53 PM
