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Post by HoodooOperator on Feb 26, 2009 19:10:17 GMT -5
Today I had this routine luncheon with my CEO for work. The CEO of my company (Mickey) is seriously the coolest boss ever, not to mention just a really cool guy, he knows people here in LA. So once a month dude flies out from NYC to see how business is, and a group of us have lunch with him at random Beverly Hills/Hollywood restaurants on him. So today we went to this place called Comme Ca, a super-amazing french joint. We sit down and start talking the usual business, and he's like, "Hey guys my friend Gerry is coming by, hope you guys don't mind." We're all "No problem." He's like, "Some of you might know his music...." I'm sitting there thinking of every Gerry/Jerry I could think of, so it turns out its Gerry Beckley of the band America. No one knows who the hell it is, until Mickey starts singing "Sister Golden Hair" A few of my co-workers mutter "Oh yeah" I'm at this point sitting there a little giddy, knowing that the only chair open is the one across from me, and that the singer of one of the biggest folk rock groups of the 70's is gonna sit there. I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of America, but it's hard not to admit that songs like "Horse With No Name", "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", and "Sister Golden Hair" aren't quacking classic 70's folk songs. So Gerry gets to the restaurant, and Mickey introduces him, and starts asking him a bunch of business stuff, apparently Gerry is a big fan of my company, blah blah blah. So I'm waiting for them to be done, because I've gotta talk to this guy. Here's why. Like a year or two ago, America released an album called "Here & Now", it was produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, and James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins. What drew me to the album was the guests that were featured, namely Jim James of MMJ, and Ryan Adams. (Great album by the way)
So finally there is a break in the conversation, and Gerry asks me what location I work at, yadda yadda. I turn the conversation around on him, I'm like "Dude, how was it to work with Jim James on your last album?!" He's like shocked. He goes on to tell me about how amazing of a time it was recording with Jim and Patrick of MMJ, and how he loved the song "Golden" and that he had to cover it for the album. He agrees with me when I tell him I think they are one of the best in music today. Come to find out his favorite album is "At Dawn" Amazing. So he proceeds to tell me about working with Ryan Adams, and Ben Kweller on the album, and tells me about this Ben Kweller show he was at and he sang "Sister Golden Hair" with Ben's band, so cool. He seemed super excited to have worked with some of the really great young names in rock, he talked about how that album opened the doors to a young audience for them. So I asked the inevitable question of them ever be asked, or wanting to play festivals, namely Bonnaroo. He said at the time the album came out he wanted to start heading that route, while also playing smaller notable venues across the US that they would have normally played in the past. He felt that the album would bring a new crowd to the smaller, more indie venues to check them out. Anyways, he said that their management advised against them playing shows of the sort because of they wouldn't get paid sh*t to do it. He also said that Dewey (the other half of America) was against the idea too. So in the end, he agreed that the festival scene is really where its at quality music/artist-wise, and would be more than stoked to play one in the future. All this time my boss is sitting there dumbfounded like, How the eff does this guy have so much to talk about with Gerry? So he asks me before we all depart for the day, and I'm like Mickey......"One word....Music."
Anyways, I can talk to anyone all day about music. I just thought this was a pretty cool story, and I thought some of you might enjoy it.... ;D
Great story and I feel the same way about music. I only know one person who can just sit down with me and talk music.
I kinda have a story too: I met pnut after a 311 show once and he was talking to me and a bunch of other 311 fans(I did security at the venue last summer) and I mentioned to him I like his bass playing and asked him if he still played the Warwicks and he dropped everyone else to bs with me about bass haha.
Before there was a Bonnaroo there was an Itchycoo in that same field.And America played it!My sister is a huge America fan and her husband got her back stage to meet and get autographs on her old album cover.So Gerry and the gang were at the farm before Roo.It was a good show by the way.Good story too Hoo.
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
"The beat of Woodstock lives on. In the hills of Tennessee, in the year 1999, a music festival reminiscent of a bygone era came to pass. At a place with the whimsical name Itchycoo Park, thousands of music lovers gathered for a retrospective celebration with some of the biggest names in rock & roll history. Among the groups in the all-star lineup were Grand Funk Railroad, Styx, America, Steppenwolf, and Sammy Hagar" - a semi-quote about the dvd
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
