Gary Mallaber Finding Van Morrison, Crazy Love and Making the Moondance Album!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2024
- Gary Mallaber
Drummer - Song Writer - Arranger - Producer - Engineer
Highlights from Part One
Gary Mallaber started his career in Buffalo, NY, playing drums with his band, Raven The band were getting noticed in 1968 and moved to NewYork City and soon found themselves at the popular club where all the current artists were going called, The Scene. The band were on a role, they jammed with Jimi Hendrix and met Eddie Kramer, they were opening for Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, and others. George Harrison and Peter Asher were even interested in the band, but the band fell apart, soon after, the band broke up and Gary was in search of Van Morrison.
Searching for Van Morrison and Moondance
Gary found him in the Village in NYC, and soon found Van Morrison at a local music hangout and noticed that were no drums and asked if he could bring his kit in, Gary was in and was soon recording the album, Moondance with Van. We talk to Gary about the history of the album and what it means today. We talk about the tracks, his favorite songs, the mixing of the album and how Van was open to the band contributing, such as Gary adding Vibraphone on Crazy Love, helping mixing the album mixing V With the success of Moondance, his career took a major turn where he became an in-demand session drummer in Los Angeles.
