march 16

my friend and wonderful music supporter J. Michael Harrison of temple radio’s WRTI invited us to his show ‘the bridge’ as well as his journalism class to talk about our new project and stories of how we got here. dino told some great stories of his time playing with ike and tina turner and his time working with a funk band in LA where he was triggering modular synthesisers with his trombone via pitch to voltage. it was a wonderful experience. bassist anthony tidd joined as well. Mike played some tracks from jon hassels power spot record which dino contributed to in the late 80’s that was produced by brian eno and daniel lanois. he also played a 20 min section of music we recorded the following evening.  after interviews, we jumped back on the road on 95N to princeton, nj to play our first performance at WPBR-fm one of the US oldest college radio stations. our set was our second time to play and was quite immersive and satisfying to us. dino utilizing his two small amps as ‘a short stack’. we were self contained w mics, mixer, laptop to record everything, a very nice portable scenario. afterwards, a roundtable radio interview/discussion with host Mike Hunter, also joining ‘the always amped’ Darren Bergstein, he former publisher of ei and 1000 pulses electronic-head. a great night there, followed by a late night ‘short stack’ before heading back to philly around 4am. isn’t always?