From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #236 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, May 10 2015 Volume 10 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Re: Scott And Alex [Daniel Vallor ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 00:49:35 -0700 From: Daniel Vallor Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Scott And Alex Dan- That sounds like the Alex I knew. Working with him early on his sense of humor could get a bit obnoxious but he was a generous and gracious guy. That he would form a band and drive up from New Orleans to Memphis to play with Game Theory because he remembered liking me the two days we were working together the prior year is very much an Alex thing to do. I think he saved most of the "screwing with people" for folks like Pete Buck, people who pursued jamming with him or only wanted to talk Big Star. He liked Scott and he liked Game Theory, but he never understood (no matter how hard I tried to explain it to him) why Scott dropped the drummer lyric from "You Can't Have Me". I mixed his sound for countless shows in Northern California from 1985-1988, there were clubs he wouldn't play unless I was at the board, he and I used to get in scrapes with the house sound guy at The Berkeley Square because the guy was obsessed with live sound compression and Alex did not play so loud that compression should have even been considered and would have none of it. Alex finally just refused to play unless I was left alone in the booth. As I recall the sound guy got into it with Bruce, the singer of the East Bay band Yo one night during soundcheck when Yo opened for Alex and Alex stood in the corner grinning ear to ear as Bruce and the sound guy nearly came to blows. His musical knowledge more than matched Scott's too. He was encyclopedic, especially where obscure and odd songs by not totally obscure artists was concerned, the kind of thing most of us music nerds overlooked in those days. Neither Scott nor I never would have spent the going rate for Robin Gibb's "Robin's Reign" had it not for Alex's waxing about "Worst Girl In This Town" and would have avoided the later Beach Boys album "Beach Boys Love You" had Alex not insisted we hear "Solar System". The remark about Tav Falco was true Alex, playing with Tav was one of his favorite things, Tav's eccentricities were the kind of thing Alex was a student of, in a sense. - - Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #236 ********************************