Don Barnes Interview: Legendary Rockers 38 Special Release ‘Live from Texas’

Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Let me ask you the obvious question first. Why make a live album right now?

Don Barnes: Actually, the initial idea was to just have it available at shows, put it at the merchandise tables for people to take the party home with them. We brought our digital equipment out here and recorded a few shows. When we listened back it was actually much better than we thought we played. We were better than we thought we were (laughs). So we were able to glean some best performances through several cities across Texas.

We have our studio in Atlanta and we decided to start utilizing some of this new technology of audio equipment that we put together. We made it sound like you’re right there in the crowd sitting in front of the band. You can hear the crowd behind you and around you. It’s a real surround sound type thing.

Read the entire interview at SmashingInterviews.com