The Real Pat Blair

Here is the Lone Strangers, Live on 105.1 Channel Q’s “The Garage,” with Brandi Power.

Lone Strangers on The Garage

For the sake of size/time, I edited out all of the music and Brandi’s chats with Blue Island Tribe, who were also on the show with us.
Some thoughts on the show: it was a great time. We got there early and had a chance to talk with Brandi for quite awhile before the show started, which helped put everyone at ease on the air. The studio is UNBELIEVABLY small, so between 3 Strangers and about 6 Blue Island Tribers, it was very cozy. And since the BIT guys had been there before, it was a very relaxed atmosphere, with much joking around, both on-air and off. It made for good radio, I think.
Since there is only 1 mic (EV RE-20s for everything, for the nerds out there) on a short stand for the bands to use, it’s almost impossible to talk as a band. We had kind of decided that I would do most of the talking, and, even though I still feel like a mic-hog, I think it probably worked out better that way. Many times, I have heard bands stand 3 feet away from the mic (BAD!) and just sort of shout out answers to questions. That makes for bad radio.
I don’t think I said anything too terribly stupid. Having listened to the tape a couple of times, I am still trying to figure out when I became so incoherent and picked up so many vocal tics (like, um, etc, only mine aren’t quite that bad). Better planned questions (and answers) might have helped some of that, but I think, overall, it went very well, especially when compared to other shows that I have listened to.
At one point, I just sort of took over. You can probably spot it pretty easily - Dan and Scott probably both knew what was happening as soon as it started, I would suspect. I think that it also made for the most entertaining part of the evening. Hopefully everyone that was listening - especially people who don’t know us - felt the same way.
The Strangers really need to get our new material recorded. We spent so much time talking about the Battle of the Bands, but 3 of the four (or five) songs in our set aren’t on CD, which probably made the whole thing more difficult, and also probably gave an inaccurate picture of the band. We’ve started tentative planning already, thinking about something for this Fall, which, if we stay true to form, means that you can expect new music from the Lone Strangers in April of 2008. I’m not trying to be a pessimist, I’m just stating the obvious.
I’m glad that Brandi had seen us twice in the last week, and also really liked the band. If she hadn’t seen us, or had but didn’t like us, that would have been pretty awkward.
Have I mentioned that this was a lot of fun? We’ll do it again, no doubt, and hopefully the whole band will be able to be there. Possibly play some live acoustic stuff. Some new recorded stuff. Take over the station with squirt guns. You know, whatever works.
But, yeah, good times.
Wait, did I already say that?