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megfilmworks

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Sherman Oaks
My girl in the day singing lead with Frank Z. conducting and Steve Vai on guitar.
 

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63dot

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My girl in the day singing lead with Frank Z. conducting and Steve Vai on guitar.

Wow, that's back in the day. Really cool stuff.

I remember when Frank was first talking about Steve Vai and said Steve was better than Eddie Van Halen, and I didn't believe it. But then I saw Steve Vai...wow. And then when Steve Vai gets famous, he says he is not as good as Joe Satriani. Who? I thought, and then I heard Joe Satriani, and almost quit guitar. ;)
 

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Also in this incarnation of the Mothers was
Chad Wackerman, Ray White, and Tommy Mars.
The pic is from the Santa Monica Civic.

Chad, I saw him back Allan Holdsworth in Southern California in the early 80s. What a great drummer!

What was it like for your wife to work with all these people? I bet she has stories.

My aunt worked with a lot of these people and also Frank Sinatra, Mac Davis, and Joe Pass. Her stories are hilarious. Sessions pros all know each other and besides the movie about the "Funk Brothers", there needs to be more movies about the great backing musicians of rock and jazz.

Same with other similar session pros like Steve Smith (backed a lot of other solo artists like Mariah Carey, multi-instrumentalists like Frank's son Dweezil, other guitarists like Larry Coryell, and most famously popular band Journey). Chad himself, as you probably know, also has a long list of people he worked with in both rock and jazz.

I put Chad up there with Smith, Omar Hakim (Sting, and many jazz acts like Miles and Weather Report), and Tony Thompson (nearly everybody in rock like Jagger, Bowie, Robert Palmer, and Rod Stewart). Among my guitar playing set of friends, I turn people onto Chad's playing whenever possible as many in rock guitar fanboy circles may not be that aware of his playing like they would be with Phil Collins, Don Henley, Lars Ulrich, both Bonhams, or Keith Moon.
 

megfilmworks

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Jul 1, 2007
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Sherman Oaks
So true, so many great players, so little time.
She sang lead on "Teenage Prostitute", "Lisa's Life Story" and "Dangerous Kitchen" among others
She has stories. Here is a link to her website.

http://www.popeil.com

She has been teaching voice for years but still records
(Just finished a session with Weird Al two weeks ago).

Glad you enjoyed the pic.

p.s. who was your aunt? I may have met her in the day.
 

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Jun 12, 2006
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So true, so many great players, so little time.
She sang lead on "Teenage Prostitute", "Lisa's Life Story" and "Dangerous Kitchen" among others
She has stories. Here is a link to her website.

http://www.popeil.com

She has been teaching voice for years but still records
(Just finished a session with Weird Al two weeks ago).

Glad you enjoyed the pic.

p.s. who was your aunt? I may have met her in the day.

My aunt married 4 times, was first married to musical scorer that worked with Dylan and Black Sabbath, and then a man I never knew, then somebody else maybe in music, but lastly to a band leader in Las Vegas. She went by Eiko Ceremony. She played as a orchestra pit musician for the shows along the Las Vegas strip. She went to music school in her 20s but didn't get first gig in Vegas until 40 but then worked steadily for over 20 years all those night shows.

So many great performers, as you know, are firecrackers on stage, but really shy people in person/public when not on stage. I am certainly that way and the only public place I enjoy or can act in is on a rock and roll stage, otherwise, I am a typical nerd/geek, but that's a huge population of this website. :)
 

iParis

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Jul 29, 2008
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WOW.
A lot of you guys look like you and your significant were made for each other.
Keep your relationships going!

I'll post a pic as soon as I find a significant other.
For now my only love is for my iPod.
Which I believe will change very soon.
Wish me luck!

We've been together for almost a year now. I'm on the right in the first one and the right in the second and the third one well, hope it doesn't scare you much!:D

You guys look so cute together!
But those pictures aren't that great, there are probably better.
 

izzo

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This is My girlfriend( on the left) and Me (in the Middle) and my other friend ( on the right)

feeling pretty good on halloween night.


We've been together for over 4 years, started dating at 15 long distance and now we live together at our recently purchased house. Goes to show long distance relationships do work. She was only 2 hours away though.
 

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wawanarchist

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Oct 19, 2008
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Thats my Powerbook BTW... She just wanted to be the cool one :rolleyes:

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We've been dating for 2 years on the 26th
 
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