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FROM THE WEST
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(Live From The Fox Theatre - St. Louis)
Your live CD and video "Greetings From The
West" seemed very successful from an artistic point of
view, were you happy with the way it turned out?
DF: Absolutely, especially when you consider
that it was taken from only one show, and most bands record ten
shows to make a live record or video. That record and that video
was us, that was a damn good band. That band was the best band I
ever had for my music, and when we got to New York I thought it
was time to put together a live album or video , even though I
had never wanted to before. I was prepared to beg to have Epic
let me make this document, but fortunately they were already
convinced after seeing the show at the Beacon theater. We only
had one more indoor show on the schedule at the Fox theater in a
week, so we had a very hectic week preparing for that show. The
day of the concert was the craziest day of my life , and the day
I am most proud of , and my dad would have been most proud of
me, because I was producing a record, starring in a video , and
managing this whole insane day with the buck stopping with me
for all decisions! Jim Shea (the director) who comes from a
cinematic point of view gave us a great look. We put it on film
, and used eight cameras so it would look like a film , and not
a concert or video tape. The thing I am most proud of though is
that it really was a live performance, we didn’t go back in
and redo the whole bloody thing, I was really proud of the band.
From
1997 Interview by James Jensen
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