Listen Up! 2013 perspective

[Tom22]

Sorry to bring it up again, but to me, if we're talking about slow starts to real careers, by singers that love music as musicians and stay true to their own sound, I'll bring it up again.

Chris Isaak . I'm not sure if he's rich or not. So much of that has to do what people do with the bigger money the make when things are really good. If he'd popped his money into S&P 500 index funds in the early 90s when he was making it he'd be quite well off even with the markets going up an down the last 10 years. If tried to make more and invest in restaurants or had his advisers trying to outsmart the market, he's probably just making a living on tour and modest residuals.


I suppose some of you might say.. "who's Chris Isaak" . While never being a Mariah Carrey or something... he had some big years ... and even was a household name, named to a VH1 sexiest list, and had the fun of half a dozen on camera hollywood movie bit roles. I'm sure is still doing what he loves: make music and make it his way and continue to have an audience of people that appreciate what he does.

He's put out 11 studio albums, 1 went tripple platinum, one single platinum a couple gold and a number have, oddly enough almost all the albums including his 2011 album do well in Australia despite him being a California boy... looks like he a loyal core group of fans in France and Sweeden and the UK . (thats a 16 year recording career and I don't think its over)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Isaak_discography

I guess.. I see the connection as.. I can think I can count the artists that I've gotten into after 1990 on two hands. And he's one of them. (and maybe less.. only Norah Jones inbetween had me listening to her album on replay(and unfortunately only her first for me)) His acoustic album "Baja Sessions" is has been one of my favorite albums for the last 15 plus years.

All of the songs on that album.. start to finish.. half his own and half covers feel just as good as the next one.. just like Norah's first, and Haley's first (and i'm sure those to follow)

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His story again:

Chris had been scraping along but making music even if it wasn't getting heard by a ton of peopel... the song that caught on was on his third album and it wasn't till 2 years after that third album came out that the momentum started.

Quote:
Isaak's third album, Heart Shaped World (1989) proved to be a breakthrough effort for the singer, when famed director David Lynch used an instrumental version of Isaak's song "Wicked Game" for the film Wild at Heart (1991). A disc jockey in Atlanta took notice of the haunting track and started playing Isaak's album version—complete with vocals—on his station. The song soon caught on with listeners, and the album started to climb the charts in America as well as around the world. Reaching as high as number six on the Billboard pop charts in 1991, "Wicked Game" gave Isaak's career a tremendous boost.

Soon, Herb Ritts' unforgettable video of the song helped make Isaak a multi-media star and sex symbol. In the video, Isaak famously nuzzled model Helena Christensen on the beach. Not surprisingly, the steamy clip proved to be wildly popular with both sexes. Another track from the album, "Don't Make Me Dream About You," would also earn significant airplay, turning Heart Shaped Box into a multi-platinum album in the U.S. and a smash-hit internationally.


http://www.biography.com/people/chris-is...948?page=2

and while I'm at it.. here are a couple of my favorites from baja sessions which maybe wasn't as huge of a commecial success his others on either side of it.. but it's beautiful.. and he's still touching me with it for one

one of his



and a cover he did on the album :

[suggahinyerteeth]

You left off his TV show, which I watched and Loved! I remember buying Wicked Games with another track on....wait for it.....Cassette!

The Chris Isaak Show is a television sitcom which follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak. The show portrays Isaak and his band members as everyday people with everyday problems. The series was produced for the Showtime channel from 2001–2004, and was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, which stands in for the show's home setting of San Francisco.

The series featured Isaak and several members of his band, Silvertone, portraying themselves. Other roles were portrayed by actors, including Jed Rees as Isaak's keyboardist. Rees (who had studied piano, though much of his character's keyboard work is performed by a session player) was hired in place of Isaak's actual keyboardist Brett Tuggle (a part-time band member) to add some comedy to the show. Other characters featured on the show include Yola Gaylen, Isaak's manager and her colleague, Cody Kurtzman. The final regular character, Mona, appears as a mermaid-of-sorts (no tail) who lies nude (generally in a prone position—though at least once the viewer could see her topless) on a revolving circular bed in the basement of Bimbo's, a club Isaak frequents. She typically talks only with Isaak, acting as his conscience or a sounding board for him ("The Naked Lady" with "nothing to hide").

[Himm2]

You left off his TV show, which I watched and Loved! I remember buying Wicked Games with another track on....wait for it.....Cassette!

My collection of music back in the 70's were 8-track tapes! I'm dating myself and back in the 70's that was about the only person that was dating me!

[suggahinyerteeth]

You left off his TV show, which I watched and Loved! I remember buying Wicked Games with another track on....wait for it.....Cassette!

My collection of music back in the 70's were 8-track tapes! I'm dating myself and back in the 70's that was about the only person that was dating me!

LOL I had those too! Not sure how old Haleys parents are, but I'm guessing maybe close to my age (56) and maybe yours too?

[Himm2]

LOL I had those too! Not sure how old Haleys parents are, but I'm guessing maybe close to my age (56) and maybe yours too?

Harry Reinhart & his bass partner Tom Kro are both 56 and I think Patti is in her 50's too since they've been playing music for 40 years. Harry's birthday is November 15th.

[Swansteel]

^^Tom22, I loved (and still love) Norah's first album as well. I used to play the heck out of that thing, even putting it on repeat during car trips. Every song is wonderful. Recently I even bought a 200 gram virgin vinyl LP edition that A-MAZ-ING. Unfortunately, after the first album my interest fell away from Norah quickly. The later albums never recaptured the magic of the first one for me.

Listen Up! has the same allure as Norah's album. Every song is as good as the next and there is never a feeling of wasted space or filler. I would be very, very happy if Haley could have a career similar to Norah's--a solid career without having to be a superstar.

[suggahinyerteeth]

LOL I had those too! Not sure how old Haleys parents are, but I'm guessing maybe close to my age (56) and maybe yours too?

Harry Reinhart & his bass partner Tom Kro are both 56 and I think Patti is in her 50's too since they've been playing music for 40 years. Harry's birthday is November 15th.

LOL I see you avoided the last part

[Miguel]

Keith Phelps ‏@KEiTHPHELPS

@HalienCourtesy haley has wanted a tour ever since we first met...still wants 1...but its a long music industry story as 2 why we havent yet

^ sounds like it was a "political" situation

[suggahinyerteeth]

Keith Phelps ‏@KEiTHPHELPS

@HalienCourtesy haley has wanted a tour ever since we first met...still wants 1...but its a long music industry story as 2 why we havent yet

^ sounds like it was a "political" situation

GRRRRRRRRRRR I HATE "POLITICAL SITUATIONS" Makes me fume that someone would do that to someone as sweet, talented and beautiful as Haley! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[midnightblues]

The politics of music and recording, unfortunately it shows no prejudiced, nobody's immune to it. These days being sweet talented and beautiful doesn't hold water I think it all boils down to one thing and that'show much money can the industry get out of you dunno IMO. There's always somebody throwing sand in the gears.