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Marine Lacoste, Corey Hart / Uncle Kracker / Highway Hunters

January 28, 2023 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

Marine Lacoste is a keyboard player from Quebec Canada who plays with major artists Uncle Kracker and Corey Hart, as well as fronting her own band Highway Hunters. We talk on all three with Marine plus her establishment of a piano academy for rock players.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

CEGEP (post secondary education option in Quebec)

Listening to Deep Purple and loving rock organ playing

Getting the gig with Uncle Kracker

Marine playing live with Uncle Kracker

Marine’s rig for Uncle Kracker

Getting the gig with Corey Hart

Marine playing at the Juno Awards with Corey Hart

Marine’s rig for Corey Hart

Highway Hunters – “when Deep Purple, Keith Emerson and Halestorm have a baby”

Highway Hunters – Down The River

Marine Lacoste’s Online Rock Lessons

B3 players who inspire (Lachy Doley interview link)

Highway Hunters’ ELP tribute: Knife Edge

Learning to be a front-person behind a keyboard

Marine’s train wreck moment

Marine’s suggestions for new players

Peter Keys

Tag a keyboard player: more Ty Bailie!

Desert Island Discs: Transmission – The Tea Party, Machine Head – Deep Purple, Trouble – LaMontagne, Grace – Jeff Buckley, Great Western Valkyrie – Rival Sons.

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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Jenny Conlee-Drizos, The Decemberists

January 20, 2023 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

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Jenny Conlee-Drizos is keyboard player with iconic band The Decemberists, as well as being a member of Black Prairie, KMRIA and more. We talk all of that and more, including some great chat on accordions and one of the best keyboard accessory invention suggestions we’ve heard!

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

Jenny discovers the piano

Caleb Klauder

Calobo live

The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song

Meeting Colin Meloy and joining The Decemberists

The Decemberists – Once in My Life (warning – you may need tissues when watching)

Jenny’s playing William Fitzwilliam

Jenny playing Burial Ground with The Decemberists live

Next recording sessions with The Decemberists

Jenny Playing with Black Prairie

Jenny playing with KMRIA (Kiss My Royal Irish Ass), a Pogues cover band

James Fearnley – The Pogues

Casey Neill and the Norway Rats -All You Pretty Vandals

Black Prairie – NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Jenny’s love for her Petosa Futura accordion (and here’s Jenny playing her other Petosa accordion)

Jenny’s touring rig with The Decemberists

Jenny’s solo upcoming accordion creation: The Seaview Suite (details here)

Jealous Butcher Records

Chick Corea – Children’s Song No. 1

Tag a keyboard player: Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers)

Keyboard amp discussion

Jenny’s garden

Desert Island Discs: Security / Self-titled – Peter Gabriel, Without A Net – The Grateful Dead, Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin, Automatic for the People – REM, Kind of Blue – Miles Davis.

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

Cover pic from Eric Mayers via Jenny’s Instagram

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Keyboard Chronicles Live Stream #2 – January 2023

January 6, 2023 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

We do our first live stream for 2023 and cover a bunch of topics (see below):

Topics discussed:

Mainstage and CPU requirements for a Mac
2023 gear predictions
Bucket list band to play with (Part 2)

What band we wish we could all play in

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Steve Nathan, Tim McGraw / Mark Knopfler / Lionel Richie (Part 2)

January 3, 2023 by KC Editor 1 Comment

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Over the past 40+ years, Steve Nathan has worked with some of the biggest and best in the music industry (here’s the full list). In this second of two parts (Part 1 is here) we delve into Steve’s incredible career further, get some great insights into developing as a musician and of course Steve’s desert island discs and keyboard players he admires. Please note: although Steve did work extensively with Mark Knopfler and Lionel Richie, we didn’t get time to discuss those artists – yet.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

Working with Keith Urban

Steve playing Tonight I Wanna Cry – Keith Urban

Steve playing Something Like That – Tim McGraw (which incidentally turned out to be the most played song on the radio in the US for the first decade of the 2000s)

Steve playing Whenever You’re Ready – Mary Chapin Carpenter

Working with Olivia Newton-John

Working with Jimmy Barnes

Steve playing Mustang Sally – Jimmy Barnes

Working with Troy Cassar-Daley

Steve playing on the Troy Cassar-Daley Freedom Ride sessions

Steve lists some of the favourite albums / sessions he’s worked on

Steve talks on one of his most favourite sessions ever: Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo)

Herb Jeffries – Flamingo

Herb Jeffries – Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds (from album Steve played on)

Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dreaming Road

Hot Wired – Brent Mason

Tony Joe White – Closer to the Truth

Tips / thoughts for players

Steve’s go-to synths and his former mega-rig

Mink DeVille – Italian Shoes

Tag a keyboard player: Rai Thistlethwayte, Matt Rollings, Gordon Mote, Dave Cohen, Reese Wynans

Desert Island Discs: Live – Donny Hathaway, Genius + Soul = Jazz – Ray Charles, Little Susie – Ray Bryant, This Here and Dat Dere (songs) – Bobby Timmons, a Herb Jeffries album.

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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Steve Nathan, Tim McGraw / Mark Knopfler / Lionel Richie (Part 1)

December 29, 2022 by KC Editor 2 Comments

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Over the past 40+ years, Steve Nathan has worked with some of the biggest and best in the music industry (here’s the full list). In this first of two parts (Part 2 is here) we delve into Steve’s incredible career, how he got into music and his thoughts on some of the many artists he’s worked with and the state of cotemporary music more broadly.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

Steve’s musical upbringing, first Wurlitzer piano and first band (The Off Beats)

Cannonball Adderley

Stan and the Ravens (The Rivals) – Hollin’ For My Darlin’

Stan Szelest – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On

Meeting Bob Dylan and a lesson in selling seats

Teenage Steve gets an unexpected lesson from Joe Zawinul

Old upright pianos as backlined gear

Gary Baker

Getting the gig at Muscle Shoals (here’s a great short history of Muscle Shoals)

Leblanc and Carr – Falling

Working with Percy Sledge

Percy Sledge’s insistence on singing in original key

Steve playing with Huey Lewis: Oh! Darling

Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles

Great George Harrison anecdote involving the brilliant Steve Gibson

Working with Levon Helm

Steve plays ‘The Weight’ with The Staples Singers

Steve playing – Since I Fell For You – Natalie Cole and Reba McEntire

Rhythm, Country and Blues – The Album

Steve playing – Rainy Night in Georgia – Conway Twitty and Sam Moore

Four doomed tracks with Taylor Swift

Working extensively with Tim McGraw

On being a good musician vs being the best keyboard player

Discussion on current mainstream music and music production

The challenge of making it today as a musician

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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Ty Bailie, Heavy Chevy / Katy Perry

December 8, 2022 by KC Editor 1 Comment

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Ty Bailie is a Nashville-based keyboard player who’s just come off five years playing with Katy Perry, amongst an array of other projects and production credits. We talk to Ty in depth on his musicial journey and have some laughs over a range of keyboard-related issues.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

Ty in action with Heavy Chevy

Ty in action with Katy Perry

Ty in action with Dept of Energy

Backing Pearl Jam / Soundgarden / Presidents of the United States

Playing with Dept of Energy

Getting the Katy Perry gig

The learning curve coming in mid-tour on a Katy Perry international tour

Ty’s Rig Tour – 2018

Duff McKagan and an accordion UFO tribute band – Flight to Mars

Truly

The Young Lizards – Freebird

A great musical train wreck anecdote

The death of the key change

Sting: psychopathic stalker and killer? (with reference to provide context)

Tag a keyboard player: Nicholas Semrad, Larry Goldings

Desert Island Discs: The Ray Brown Trio – Bassface, Bill Evans – Alone, Tingsek – Amygdala, Taylor Swift – Folklore.

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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Rig Tour: Martin Rebelski, Peter Hook and The Light

November 22, 2022 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

We had the pleasure of meeting Martin Rebelski in the flesh a few months after our in-depth interview on Martin’s career. Martin very kindly spent some time running down his touring rig for Peter Hook and The Light.

As you’ll see, Martin packs a lot of punch into an easy to use and transport rig. Enjoy!

Jason Miles, Miles Davis / Luther Vandross / Solo Artist (Part 2)

November 20, 2022 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

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Jason Miles is a composer / producer / keyboard player who has worked with some of the best in the business. In Part 2 of this two-part interview, we talk in depth with Jason about his solo work, his working relationship with Marc Miller and a great deal, including a desert island disc we are gobsmacked has taken 62 episodes to be mentioned.

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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):

Jason Miles website

The Extraordinary Journey of Jason Miles: A musical biography

Cozmopolitan (title track)

Learning production

Soft synths vs the real thing: then and now

Oberheim Matrix 12

Kudos to Eric Persing and Omnisphere

Dealing with anxiety and tips for managing it

A great musical train wreck anecdote

Tag a keyboard player: Aaron Parks, Joe Zawinul, Geoffrey Keezer, Kofi Burbridge, Philippe Saisse, Mike Nock

Desert Island Discs: East-West – Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Milton Nascimento – Clube da Esquina, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 – Miles Davis, Computer World – Kraftwerk, Aja – Steely Dan

Thanks to our supporters for this episode: Brother Paul Brown , Musicplayer.com forums, Tammy Katchur’s Musical Stew and Radio Grande

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Jason Miles, Miles Davis / Luther Vandross / Solo Artist (Part 1)

November 15, 2022 by KC Editor Leave a Comment

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Jason Miles is a composer / producer / keyboard player who has worked with some of the best in the business. In Part 1 of this two-part interview, we talk in depth with Jason about his experiences working with Luther Vandross and Miles Davis and a whole lot more.

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