audiot

who would have thought of that? i wanted to show you some Michael Landau video, because i think he’s not known enough. this guy played on so many records, chances are you even have an album on which he did his thing. but – as is the thing with many studio-cats – nobody knows him. except guitarfreaks of course. anyway, he deserves to be known…

then i found this clip of his trio playing in Karlsruhe/Germany last year – and i was there! this was one awesome show, wow. Gary Novak on drums, whom i had a little chat with afterwards, is such a nice person and such a bada$$ drummer. he got most of my interest that evening, sorry Mike. and Jimmy Johnson on bass, never seen him before. i think i heard or read his name somewhere but that was it – he was another pleasant surprise that day. this is a great band, if they are still out there gigging – don’t miss ‘em… under no circumstances!

by the way, the guitar really was that loud compared to the other instruments – it’s too bad you almost can’t hear anything else in the clip. i stood right at the stage, in front of the drumkit – that made for a balanced sound. i got very few of the pa, almost only stagesound and that was fine. the guy who shot the video though, seemed to have a somewhat worse position, so sorry for the sound. but you should hear that they know what they’re doing ;-)

enjoy