Gary Mallaber Finding Van Morrison, Crazy Love and Making the Moondance Album!
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- čas přidán 9. 10. 2022
- 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. - Hudba
Gary was my roommate in Buffalo between 1969 and 71. 1741 Amherst street was his home base while he was traveling around performing great music with well-know bands. He is still one of my absolute top 3 drummers, coming in at #1.
That’s very cool, he will see this
I was in The Mick Hayes Band here in Buffalo yrs ago around '09. Mick had hired him for a local gig, while he was in town for a while! He used my drums, I was talking to him in-between set's and thanked him for his Fly Like An Eagle groove! I told him me and my father (who at the time, was a Big Band Drummer) heard that tune at the new locally owned record store here called Record Theatre. We called that beat "The Slinky Groove" Thank you so much Gary!
Very nice, I’ll send this to Gary
I came here for the Steve Miller years, but found the Van Morrison connection quite interesting. I can't wait until Pt 3.
Thank you! Part 3 is in process
I met Gary a few years ago in Monroe Michigan when he was playing with AJ Croce. What a great, humble person. You wouldn’t have know he was a rock star to people who know the musicians of famous singers. Thank you Gary for your time and being so friendly. You made this fan happy!
Gary is one of the greatest “song” players to ever pick up a pair of sticks. His work with Van Morrison, Steve Miller and Eddie Money is brimming with personality and taste. “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jungle Love,” “Two Tickets For Paradise” are just a few examples.
Thank you so much. Gary is seeing all these wonderful comments.
Oh man, Gary has the magic touch, facility, groove and intuition for making hits. None better!
Indeed and so humble!
I think Moondance can only be categorised as Van Morrison music. Back in the late sixties some people called it Blue Eyed Soul.
Yeah, that’s about how you can put it
Where is Part 3?????
Really interesting. Shame about the awful background music getting in the way
Yeah, we are improving TY