I don't believe that I have ever told you all about my very talented brother-in-law Steven. He married the next oldest of the Anderson girls (Kathy is the youngest, Karen the middle, and Kris the oldest). Steven is a really smart guy, a programmer for an insurance company. But Steven is also passionate about music. He plays a lot of different instruments, and has been in a number of different bands in his life.
When Steven and Karen moved out to the country outside of Seattle, Steven decided to build a recording studio. It started in his garage, but soon the plans for it's own building were underway. And what a place it is! I scanned a couple of images from one of his old brochures:
And just a few more shots:
Steven has been recording a lot of people lately, some of them are big names locally, but mostly he has been doing a lot of work for the local school and struggling artists because he is a really nice guy like that. There was a group that came by to get recorded that Steven was saying was really good. They are called BOWI, and they did a concert for their friends and friends of Steven today as a thank you for their CD release that Steven did for them.
Here are some quick shots I stole from Stevens Facebook page for his studio:
Steven at the helm of the starship TopOfTheHill...
They have a good sound, and on Steven's Facebook page for the studio https://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf#!/pages/Top-of-the-Hill-Music/292071827709
he says this:
One of the things I was looking forward most was when the crowd sings along to the last two choruses of "Rolling Home to Caladonia". Here is the feed from the stereo ribbon mike I had up near the stage.
Here is a quick link to the audience singing alongI look forward to hearing some more from them, and to hear their CD.
This whole thing got me to thinking about the days before Skyler, when Kathy and I got to go to concerts and such, and I was thinking about audience participation and singing at concerts.
What was your best moment at a concert when the audience really got into it?
For me it is a no brainer, it was always seeing Dan Fogleberg and his tradition of closing his show with "
There's a place in the world for a gambler". He died after battling prostate cancer for three years in 2007 at 56 years old. I probably saw him more than any other artist, mostly because I loved his music, and partly because he never missed an opportunity to play at Red Rocks here in Colorado.
My second best would have to be the Indigo Girls when we saw them before they really got popular at a small venue here in Denver. They loved playing off of requests then, and they did an absolutely wonderful version of The Youngbloods - Get Together that night to close the show.
So what stands out for all of you as a great concert sing-a-long moment?
