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
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