From: Tom Johnston<\/p>\n
Re: Re-Bad Company<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a little late here, but the fact that Paul Rodgers, in any given format\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.Free, Bad Company etc isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the Hall is a travesty. He is the best Blues Rock singer I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever heard and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard and played with some of the best. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great guy, down to earth, easy to get along with, who has a gift (timing and tone, showmanship) and isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afraid to let it rip. Always a fantastic show with Paul and Simon Kirke. I did love Andy Fraser\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bass playing as well. And Paul Kossof and Mick Ralphs were both great players with different styles that complemented the pure rock those bands put out with Paul Rodgers leading the charge!<\/p>\n
Tom Johnston<\/p>\n
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From: Paul Brady<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Trick Or Treat<\/p>\n
Hi Bob,<\/p>\n
Thanks for digging out Trick Or Treat again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and the fulsome praise. Bonnie Raitt hits the stratosphere when she opens up in the second verse!<\/p>\n
Not sure where you heard I was managed by Paul McGuinness but that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case, though we are passing acquaintances.<\/p>\n
At the time I was managed by Damage Management out of London.. whose other act was Dire Straits. It was David Bates of Fontana Records UK who put me with Gary Katz.<\/p>\n
We started in A&M studios and the Village Recorder in LA, moved to Bearsville NY and mixed in the Hit Factory NYC. It was a whole new and hugely enjoyable experience, working with the heavy gang. Gave me a lot of confidence. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right \u00c2\u00a0there never was a breakthrough cover of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Stop Wanting You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, though it was recorded by Johnny Hallyday on his 1994 album ‘Rough Town’ featuring, among others, Bonnie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long time bass player Hutch Hutchinson. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still at it, writing and recording and, until Covid, playing live. Too late to stop now!<\/p>\n
Stay well and keep on telling it like it is.<\/p>\n
Paul Brady<\/p>\n
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From: Steven Page<\/p>\n
Re: Steven Page Live From Home XLI<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for coming to last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show and for writing about it. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so glad that the best part for you was the same as it is for me – the folks at home, singing along, kibitzing in the chat, and even playing along on their own instruments! It blows my mind that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at forty-one shows now, with no sign of letting up, as this incredible community of people from all over the world keep showing up every week and honestly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only a small part of the whole thing now and I love that. At Christmastime, the audience set up a gift exchange for each other, without my involvement at all. Their holiday gift to me was a surprise video of fans playing and singing one of my songs, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chorus Girl,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which I re-ran last night. The Patreon has been a great plus as well, where, for $5\/month, folks can re-watch or catch up on any past shows they may have missed.<\/p>\n
Last year, after seven years of writing and prep and workshopping, my first musical, Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s What It Takes, was in rehearsal at the Stratford Festival in Canada, where it was supposed to open in May and run all summer. Obviously, that, along with any touring plans, disappeared and I went home and tried to figure out what to do. Lots of musicians were doing livestreams on Facebook and Instagram, but with the help of my friend Dan Mangan and his company Side Door (sidedooraccess.com\u00c2\u00a0– check them out), I tried out doing a paid Zoom livestream and was hooked. I have my screen set up so I can see 49 people at a time, so it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m singing into a void. Instead, I watch folks singing along, or making dinner or doing yard work and we all feel some connection that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally happen in online concerts.<\/p>\n
After a few shows with Side Door, I started doing them on my own (well, not entirely – my wife, Christine, runs the Zoom and the Discord server upstairs). I started working at making the audio and video as good as possible, and have tried to make each show as different from the week before. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the part that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really different from touring – on the road, with a completely different audience every night, the set list needs to be a fairly consistent balance of hits with some newer stuff added in, which makes each show necessarily similar. With the weekly livestreams however, many of the audience are regulars, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned to stretch and do stuff I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never have done otherwise: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve played every album, both BNL and solo, in order, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done every b-side, covers, holiday songs, new stuff – with a running tally of 210 different songs so far. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely geared toward the die-hard fan, but we all are welcomed and will soon feel like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re among friends, in-jokes and all. For me, and for so many of the audience, Saturdays are something to look forward to and the shows give us a chance to reset. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done wonders for my mental health! I have no idea how this might change the way I play shows once we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all together in person again, but I know all of this has forever changed my relationship with my audience in a truly positive way. I miss my friends and family and I miss being on the road, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy to have found some silver lining.<\/p>\n
Best,<\/p>\n
sp<\/p>\n
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