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Highest claps-per-dollar? A mirror ball; “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” the hottest show on television in the late Nineties, starring the late Regis Philbin and a giant ring of Vari-Lites; architectural lighting from the Empire State to the Las Vegas Strip with Irideon; 500 employees and $100+ million annual revenues; IPO on NASDAQ October […]
Jim calls out the companies big and small who were first offered the VariLite …and passed (it’s a big club, they should print up jackets ); Genesis manager Tony Smith catches the Hail Mary pass; wire-wrapping thousands of microprocessor card connections by hand, flawlessly, & delivering 55 VariLites to Genesis in nine months, Sept 1981; […]
Showco Jim Bornhorst pt 1
Listening now to the epic title song to “Tarkus”, the second studio album in June1971 which followed quickly after their stunning 1970 debut, with Greg Lake’s voice delicately yet nimbly bounding along to Keith Emerson’s piano runs, it’s clear that Emerson Lake and Palmer were much less “Be Bop a Lula” in their melodic grandeur and much more “Andrew Lloyd Weber”. Here In the Studio is the story in their own words of progressive rock’s first supergroup.
The time back in Spring 2007 when noted Texas songwriter Billy Joe Shaver sang “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Live Forever” and told me stories on my afternoon Dallas/ Ft.Worth radio show, it wasn’t so much an interview as a case of squatter’s rights, as it turns out much like the way in which he introduced himself to the late great Waylon Jennings, who would cover many of Billy Joe’s songs while defining the sound of Outlaw Country on such seminal albums as Honky Tonk Heroes and This Time in 1973.
This acoustic performance of “Rain on the Scarecrow” was absolutely live on my Q102 Dallas/ Ft Worth afternoon radio show in October 1991 with Mike Wanchic on guitar and Kenny Aronoff playing alongside John Mellencamp
John Fogerty ripping through the furious protest song he wrote and sang for Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”. This unreleased gem from the In the Studio archives was recorded in May 1997 during John Fogerty’s rehearsals…
Southern Rock giant Charlie Daniels has died at age 83.
Fifty years ago Jimi Hendrix performed two Memorial Day concerts in Berkeley CA at which he unveiled unreleased songs, including the portentious “Hear My Train a Comin’ “.
Brian May, Roger Taylor, and Adam Lambert as Queen, re-tooling their classic to raise money and spirits with “YOU Are the Champions”, saluting every noble person who sacrificed to serve us in this time. Watch and please donate.