![]() ![]() We had to come up to modern code, so we learned new skills there too. Making the new recording was like doing a major remodel on a stately old home. ![]() It set a standard that I can measure against. Hot Rize remains with me when I go do other projects. With Bryan, we’ve all been relearning all that through his filter. I learned PR from Nick, consensus building from Pete and artful style from Charles. We were all learning from each other and, in the process, inventing our brand. I learn from every collaborator, but my 12 years with Hot Rize from ’78 to ’90 was like my college and postgraduate education. I ask Tim about the new album, When I’m Free, and his history with HR: The band officially disbanded in 1990, but had played a number of “reunion” shows and tours through the years. It was exciting - voyeuristic like peeking through the veil - watching these amazing artists prepare for 10,000 stoked and savvy festival fans awaiting them in one of the prettiest spots in North America.Ģ014: Hot Rize releases its first studio album in 24 years. So he came along with Josh and me, and there we were: lined up like usual suspects with our backs pressed against the wall while the fellas ran through a few riffs, ate and drank a little and, in general, shook off the pre-stage jitters. I told TBF contact, Brian Eyster, Vice President of Technology and Communications for Planet Bluegrass, the Lyons-based company that owns the festival, about striking the deal and he was surprised - confiding that he had never been in the Telluride Green Room with a band right before they went on. We were to be the proverbial flies on the wall. The deal I made was that Josh and I would remain quietly in the back of the room and not interact with the band at all as they set about their pre-set rituals. In spite of not conducting the best interview of my career, Tim somehow allowed me to talk myself and photographer Josh Elioseff of Dancer Productions Photography into the Green Room with with him and Pete Wernick, Nick Forster and Bryan Sutton - Tim’s fellow bandmates in the grassbending Hot Rize - right before they took Telluride’s Main Stage … uh-gain. ![]()
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