Walt Disney Concert Hall

They wanna go to Staples Center, they wanna go, whatever they're calling it now.

They wanna go to Disney Concert Hall.

You wanna go to the restaurants down there.

But if you allow the gangs and the drug addicts or the drug dealers to take over, then no one can use downtown.

Yeah.

I go to Disney Hall a lot.

Nice.

Oh, very cool.

What is a performance or a venue that you'll never forget, that still when you think about it, you just like, makes you so happy?

Well, there, there are many, but I think the one that stands out is the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

That's a beautiful-

That is very beautiful.

You know, and I played there with orchestra, and that was phenomenal because of the sound, first of all, and the music, and, um, the prestige of that.

Yeah.

Because the Walt Disney Concert Hall is kinda like considered the Carnegie Hall of the West Coast.

Right.

And if you violate the design, you bring disintegration into your own life.

All right, how many of you have been in LA for a long time? How many of you remember in 1998, the, the construction was completed on the, the famous Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles? Remember that? I don't know if you know the story, but during the building, workers ran into an issue with the, the, the, the complex sweeping metallic exterior.

And one of the subcontractors looked at the intricate blueprints for supporting the structural f- uh, frame, and he thought, "You know what? This seems overly complicated and unnecessary.

We can save time, money, and materials by skipping a few of these reinforced crossbeams." So they altered the plan to fit their own logic.

That's what, that's what the obedience that comes from faith is all about, to get you to a point where your life is aligned with the Kingdom of God in which you say you're a full-fledged member.

That's what it's about.

You look back at the illustration of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The contractors listened to the architect, read the blueprints, and acknowledged the plans, but then they made their own modifications based on what they thought was better, faster, cheaper.

Do you know, uh, I conduct orchestras, as you know.

So the New York Times covered my conducting the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra at, at Disney Concert Hall a few years ago.

And so it became nationally known that I did that.

Uh, and you know, the scandal, as it were, a conservative conductor with a, uh, a, a left-wing city, Santa Monica, California.

Lost where I was here.

Oh, it's what we're talking about today, artists that had the time to show us just about everything they had, but still died a little too early for us to see them in their 60s and 70s, artists like Pat Benatar that I saw at Disney Concert Hall last night instead of dialing in this episode.

But here's the point, and that's why this is the opening song.

If we don't know how these people are by 57, we'll never know.

Also, we had the Santa Monica Mountain Range in the background.

We had palm trees and the Disney Center, and so we got it down to a science where we would shoot locations downtown.

I had these two trucks, and I would put vinyl on them.

We like put, like, Moishe's, uh, Moving Company on one side and maybe something else on the other one.