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Chris Isaak Takes His Live Show To Showtime
03/09/2001 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Brett Atwood
(3/9/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- Not only does singer-songwriter Chris Isaak play himself on The Chris Isaak Show, he and his Silvertone bandmembers Kenney Dale Johnson, Rowland Salley, and Hershel Yatovitz perform live numbers as a regular feature of the series. The group--with the help of faux-keyboardist, actor Jed Rees--has a standing engagement on the show at Bimbo's, a real-life San Francisco club that was recreated, complete with a sound system, for the show.
Isaak told LAUNCH that playing live for the cameras entails the same elements as a regular live performances: "We probably are approaching it kind of the same way, which is we try to make sure that we're on pitch and swinging and, you know, you get the fundamental music right, and then just having fun. You can't forget to have fun--all the practice and stuff goes before you do it and then, when you're on stage, it's just don't forget to have fun. We play in a, like, a replica of a nightclub, so we have a real audience there. It's a great sounding nightclub that we're playing in and it sounds good. There's an audience in front of us, and it's kind of very easy to forget that you're doing a TV show."
Isaak also jams with guest performers such as Joe Walsh, Junior Brown, and Minnie Driver throughout the season. The Chris Isaak Show premieres Monday (March 12) on Showtime.
-- Sofia Fernandez, Los Angeles
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