Recap
We have officially reached the final city of our October tour and we couldn't be more excited to be in San Francisco for this year's Halloween Monster Mash Up. The Warfield is a gorgeous venue and we expect it to be nothing short of a blowout this evening. There will be plenty of pictures coming at you in the next few days showing a wide variety of (ridiculous) costumes but I wanted to take a few minutes to recap a personal highlight from this past week.
Tuesday, we returned to the Crystal Bay Club in North Lake Tahoe which holds special meaning for me as it's home to one Jim Gamble. Gamble has been on the forefront of the latest in soundboard and audio technology for the last 40 years. The bands that he has mixed reads like a who's who of the all time greats in popular music. (Rolling Stones, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Steve Miller, Alice Cooper, & the Pope to name a few) I have been blessed to be able to mix on his latest brainchild that combines the best elements of both the analog and digital worlds. In a time and place when most manufacturers are cutting corners to save pennies, Gamble has never compromised the integrity of his products for any reason. The bottom line has always been the best possible sound, period. His designs are not the lightest, the easiest, or the cheapest but they sound better than the rest, like warm butter.
So it's always nice to catch up with Jim and his right hand man Blake Beeman when we roll through Tahoe. Blake, who helped Gamble build my console by hand, has turned that club into one of the best small clubs in the nation with it's superior sound and it's high end light & visuals rig. We had a ball as usual and the band played great.
2 nights at 2 different House of Blues' then landed us in LA and San Diego. If you don't live near the beach in LA, I don't know why you'd live there. (Sorry to all our LA friends)
Enough rambling, enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for Halloween updates. It's already getting wild in here!
Jim Gamble performs a little preventative maintenance on my baby
Blake, Jim & Kevin
The Crystal Bay Club gets spooky
Catching Joel in the midst of his Harry Caray impersonation backstage
A symmetric masterpiece at the HOB in San Diego
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