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Intro at KXLU

from Cold Sky​/​In Process by Cold Sky

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Recorded live at KXLU, 11/20/88.

GS: This gig...oh man. Lots to tell. Most of it bad.

This was to be our first public performance, after a very long time rehearsing. I had booked it way in advance, before I knew that a friend of mine was going to be getting married earlier that day. This was a good friend and I agreed to go to the wedding, despite liking to keep gig days open; and even worse, being asked to wear all white to the beach, in keeping with the wedding's sweet new age theme. Wearing all white may not seem like an odd or particularly difficult request for most people; but to anyone who knows me, it wouldn't be far off from asking me to wear raw chickens on my feet and glittery silver underwear. (In fact, I might have preferred that.) A white shirt, OK- beyond that, are you kidding? But, this was a good friend, so I did it. It was a long drive out from North Hollywood to Malibu in my somewhat unreliable car. I arrived with my hair down, in white everything, hoping to look enlightened but more probably looking somewhat like a demented orderly. I figured if I managed not to scare anybody I was doing all right. (The white polyester pants I wore definitely scared me.) The ceremony went well and everyone went back to Topanga Canyon for the reception. Here I had my first taste of macrobiotic food. I liked it, but for some reason it didn't like me. (Could have been a clash with all those years of cheap Ramen, 7-11 Slim-Jims and tubs of ice cream.) I was going to have to head back home to get ready for the gig anyway, but this made my need to get home a little more dire. I wished the bride and groom well, and drove home screaming and pounding the dashboard as the contents of my intestines fought hard to come out for some air. The cramps got bad shortly after I left and it was something like a 45 minute drive home. I managed to make it but to say it was exhausting doesn't quite do the experience justice. (I think at the time I described it as being like passing a lit skyrocket with a Brillo pad on the end.)

Once the macrobiotic laxative left me hollowed out, I decided to skip dinner (too risky), and get a move on for the gig, which was fast approaching. I changed clothes, carted my several hundred pounds of gear down two flights of stairs and security doors, and drove the hour out to KXLU. Luckily they had an elevator, and most of the time it worked. I don't recall if it worked that night. But this was the state I was in for our first live show.

As we were setting up, we discussed the band name. I had booked us as "Night Circus", which was our second name for a while (the first being "TFX"). None of us actually wanted to use it, but we couldn't come up with an alternative. We ran through some of the old alternatives again, and seconds before we went on the air, we discovered none of us had any problem with "Cold Sky". So I ran in to tell the host what our new name was, and that's how we were announced. Hyam hadn't been up there before (unlike George and I who had been there uncountable times in the preceding 5 years), so his full name wasn't known as we were going on. I got back into the room just in time to grab my guitar for the first song.

That's Howlin' M. Segal offering slightly off-mic commentary from the background, in the control booth.

The playing that night was rough, and the mix that went out over the air was even worse. The vocals were way too loud, and the guitar was most often the lowest thing in the mix- bad news for a trio that does a lot of instrumental work.

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from Cold Sky​/​In Process, released April 25, 2014
Intro by Bret Hallett (AKA Splatt Winger).

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