You may not know their names, but you know their sounds. Side Player Stories, a new podcast produced by W91勛圖厙 FM (89.9) Jazz & More debuts Thursday. The first episode features Liberty DeVitto, Billy Joel\u2019s long-time drummer, with additional episodes released each Thursday.<\/p>\n
In this series, musician and W91勛圖厙 FM producer Jesse Morgado gets an in-depth look inside the lives of professional musicians. Side Player Stories offers other conversations with musical guests such as guitarist\/bassist Carol Kaye (You\u2019ve Lost that Lovin\u2019 Feelin,\u2019\u00a0Mission Impossible, La Bamba<\/em>, etc,), keyboardist Carey Frank ’13<\/strong> (Tedeschi Trucks Band and Social Distortion); and bassist Eva Gardner (Pink, Cher, Mars Volta), whose unique talents and musical abilities create opportunities to make their living playing for many different bands.<\/p>\n \u201cAs Central Florida\u2019s Storytellers, we are proud to give our listeners an inside look at the life of professional musicians, some of the best in the industry, with our new podcast Side Player Stories,\u201d says Phil Hoffman, W91勛圖厙 executive director. \u201cListeners will learn the fascinating details on touring, recording, and what\u2019s in between, all through the words and experiences of some of the music industry\u2019s elite artists.\u201d<\/p>\n In the first episode, Billy Joel\u2019s former drummer for 30 years, DeVitto tells all in his new memoir. Later in July, bassist, recording artist, songwriter and Los Angeles bar owner Eva Gardner, who has toured with Pink for 14 years and has made a name for herself as a first-call musician for countless artists, talks about her inspiration and the talent in her household. After that will be Jeff Coffin, saxophonist in the Dave Matthews Band.. Coffin has also been a part of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones \u2013 racking up three Grammy Awards along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New episodes to be released each Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3,6,18],"tags":[5232],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-121379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-music","tag-wucf"],"yoast_head":"\n