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Michael has been busy with yet another project. This time, he helped out a tribute to the Wrecking Crew called DEMOLITION metamorphose from a band, into a show. If you're not familiar with the Wrecking Crew, they were a group of studio musicians in the Los Angeles area during the rock takeover of popular music in the 1960s and 1970s. A handful of musicians recorded over a thousand hits for a wide variety of bands. The primary drummer, Hal Blaine, has a nephew in the Phoenix area named Michael K. Wanting to honor his uncle, Michael K organized more than 20 people over two years to come up with this lineup. The horns alone are worth seeing these guys perform. Bands whose songs were recorded by the Wrecking Crew include Elvis, Mamas and Papas, Beach Boys, the Ronettes, the Crystals, Connie Francis, Jan & Dean, Neil Diamond, Johnnie Rivers, the Association, the Monkees, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the 5th Dimension, Supremes, and dozens more. Michael Macpherson was tasked with doing voices from Johnnie Rivers and Elvis, to Mike Love and even a Supreme. This also required considerable guitar changes, since they didn't have VG-8s and GK-2 pickups in the 1960's. The band consists of very talented musicians, and all deserve the success they've worked so hard to achieve. Good luck to DEMOLITION as they remove the training wheels and rocket to stardom! The handsome Mac Macoy is on bass next to Michael in this photo by KirlinOriginals. Jackie Killian, Lyn Jackson, and the multi-talented Tammy VandeBogart make up the ladies (left to right). Listen to a sampling of the night here. Comments (0) |
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Element 115 is among other American and European artists played on Off The Chart Radio in the UK. The show features 10 artists, and the one with the most votes by next week gets extra coverage in next week's show.
Since the Powerball lottery increased the ticket price to $2, the starting jackpot is bigger, and the jackpot grows faster than ever before.
The new album ("Shattered Paradigm" coming out soon) has a track on it called "Lottery" where we ALL WORK TOGETHER on a particular set of numbers in the P*werBall lottery game. The band plays the same set of numbers every week, twice a week. They are 6, 11, 22, 28, 35, and the red ball's 3.
While finishing programming the new Laser Typing project a couple of weeks ago, the phone rang, and a man, asking if he was reaching the Element 115 band, wanted to know if the band would be interested in doing a song that would make the band "famous in Arizona." Now, if one types "Arizona rock bands" or "Phoenix rock bands" into google, it's easy to see how big Element 115 already is in Arizona, nonetheless, Michael listened while Roger Davidson talked about his song called "The Phil Gordon and Jan Brewer Dance." Roger has had this song in his head for about two years, but did not have a recording of the song, nor does he play an instrument to help convey the song's structure. He came to the Ultramedia Studio and be-bopped into a microphone the song structure he had in mind, or at least how a couple of the parts should go, and said, "You all make the song."
