Like so many other musicians, during this enforced quarantine I’ve been collaborating online with my pals. In my case it’s the group of talented players and singers I get together with every September for a musical retreat out in the Isles of Shoals. I put up a mix a little while back of one of the songs we’ve been working on, and now we’ve made it into one of those multi-paneled music videos that have been popping up everywhere.
Here it is:
The personnel: Kemp Harris on lead vocal. The guitars are by my boyhood friends Carl Sturken and Joe Abelson. Ray Castoldi (music director at Madison Square Garden, and organist for the New York Mets) is playing the keyboards. On drums is Gary Lue, and on bass & congas we have Al Hospers. Ray’s wife April played tenor, while Joe’s two sons Rico and Max, and Al’s friend Michelle Boggs, rounded out the horn section. The high female part in the background vocals is Christie Moran, and the other female singers are Jackie Muniz and Erin Dow.
My own contributions: percussion, background vocals, editing and mixing.
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Nice work! I have never seen a guitar player stand in front of his washer/dryer. Kind of funny though. Maybe it replaces the feel of a set of amps?
A wonderful way to light a candle in the darkness “with a little help from your friends.” I look forward to more of such greatest hits.
Malcolm, great comment at Spandrell’s about the “Roche limit,” which I’d never heard of before. (Responding here because I didn’t want to clog up what’s already a long thread over there.)
Thanks, chedolf. I’d mentioned the same idea three years ago, in this post.
No comment on that video? Too disappointingly mainstream for this blog?
Nicely done. Though I do have to say that every time I see all of the faces in the little squares I start to look for Alice the housekeeper in the center.
Fantastic!
Just simply outstanding collaboration! Fantastic group of Friends you have, Sir!