Steve Berlin

That was a big band to play with, and Andy had quite good and strict ideas about how the record should sound.

And I didn't really learn how to... spread my wings a little bit in the studio until I made the third record, Why We Fight, which Steve Berlin from Los Lobos produced.

That was his birthday yesterday.

I sent him a nice birthday message.

I think less money's another way.

But

also, but also I felt my experience of the first two records, which I told Steve Berlin was, I don't feel the needs to be based on drums on everything that I do.

You know, some of the songs, it's like, there's a song on the second album named by the title called Long Dead Gone.

It's sung by Alyssa Curto, Dharma Bizier, and Tahereh Vejdani.

And we made that cast album with Steve Berlin, who's produced a couple of Tragically Hip albums before.

And I have to say, it was such a trip to see these songs that I've loved my whole life written out in sheet music.

It's just, I don't know, it's just such a trip.

Hey, it's J.D. here, and welcome to the Tragically Hip on Shuffle livestream, where every Wednesday night, like clockwork, at 8 o'clock we get together and we discuss a song that was picked the week before.

at fucking random last week on the wheel we got the bastard and that's what we will be discussing tonight from the 2000 record produced by steve berlin music at work uh track number six on the record we'll get into it with our panel tonight and on the panel we have chris from seattle chris how are you doing this evening i'm doing well jd how are you I'm awesome.

I'm awesome.

Uh, I gave you a little bit of an icebreaker of sorts, uh, a song that you would like to hear live, uh, a tragically hip song you would like to hear live.

I hope.

Like I said, came out in June of 2000, June 6th to be exact.

Produced by Steve Berlin, Mark Friedkin, and the Tragically Hip.

It did win the Juno for Best Rock Album.

I just learned today that poets, when they were putting it together in the studio, Gord didn't want to put it on the record because he said it felt too stonesy.

And when Steve Berlin came in, Steve Berlin was like, you guys are never going to be confused with the stones.

Like you don't sound like the stones.

So I love this song.

My views on Paul Simon have become more complicated.

They're like working with Steve Berlin from Los Lobos because, you know, Paul Simon wound up making good with, I don't need to start talking about this.

He made good with his Graceland people mostly, except for Los Lobos.

He still screwed them.

He ended up later forming Sonic's Rendezvous Band, and he is also the ex-husband of Patti Smith.

In 1955, Steve Berlin was born.

Steve was an accomplished saxophonist and keyboardist, best known as a longtime member of the roots rock bands The Blasters and also Los Lobos.

Craig Montoya was born in 1965.

okay that makes sense

yep i'll buy it and so so steve berlin is on here playing you know tenor soprano and alto

what steve berlin's playing

yeah

oh dude that's awesome yeah i had no idea yeah i mean he could play it all yep that's

oh my god that he's he's

playing percussion in the background

yeah this is nuts bro yeah yeah they have access between the think about all the name dropping you've already done yeah yeah no but like like just actual actual people who touch the album yeah that's nutty yeah because like steve berlin t-bone brunette yeah and um uh Oh, come on.