by Dan Yessian | Aug 13, 2019 | Producers & Engineers, Stories, Stranger Truths
Life is often stranger than fiction. People ask me If my stories are fictitious. I assure you, they are all 100% true. This one left me particularly red in the face. In the early ‘90s I was invited to a luncheon with the Metro Detroit ad community,...
by Dan Yessian | Jul 13, 2019 | Business of Music, Comedy, Stories, Stranger Truths
What happens when you’re booked to do a gig, and someone barges in? Our series is entitled – Stranger Truths. Stories about the music business that are so strange, you would think we are pulling your leg. It’s Strange because it’s...
by Dan Yessian | May 11, 2019 | Comedy, Musicology, Stories
Some of my earliest recollections of playing in a band had nothing to do with music. I used to get calls from Skip, an accomplished accordion player and leader of a Polish band. He liked the way I played Clarinet so he’d bring me in for gigs. On one particular...