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LA DJ Christian James Hand is a sonic surgeon for old tunes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, DJs and entertainment insiders kept “live music” on social media – from D-Nice’s “isolation dance parties” which attracted 100,000 virtual visitors like Michelle Obama to WME’s power agent “Quarantines” by Richard Weitz charity shows with performances by Elvis Costello and Beck.
In another corner of social media, famous music nerds flock to Instagram every week to hear Christian James Hand’s “The Session”, a show from his house where a Los Angeles DJ and producer puts out classic tunes.
By isolating the instruments, vocals and sounds, the sonic surgeon and former percussion technician analyzed the songs just to make them stronger – and school fans about how they came together, with a dose of music history and malicious humor.
Online program that has since I moved to Twitchis based on the segment that Master Mixologist Hand originally created on local LA radio. Sometimes artists like John Mayer show up on social media shows.
Hand also performed at popular concerts … until the hit COVID-19 pandemic.
“I wanted to do … New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco every month,” he told us behind the scenes of the last show, “The Beatles vs. Rolling Stones ”at the Gramercy Theater in New York.
The first live performances started word of mouth at an audiophile buddy’s apartment, where “you can fit as much as 30 people,” he said.
The shows that have grown into theaters are also creating mythical mash-ups like Queen and the metal pioneers Panther. “I would have to invite people to check out the Panther,” he said about luring fans out of their comfort zones. “But I would have to give them [more crowd-pleasing] Queen, right?
Hand performed Saturday night in Hollywood’s Bourbon Room with a program analyzing the music of The Cars and Carly Rae Jepsen – “The Cars-ly Rae Jepsen.” He also played a final concert, which he called “Elton Joel,” as well as a concert with Prince’s associate Wendy Melvoin, who was reworking songs from His Royal Badness.
The hand is too runs a program on AMPMan vs. Radio ”which covers many genres.
After the pandemic, there is competition in reserving seats as live teams have returned to queuing up. “I try to find a place where you connected right away and just go every Saturday. It’s like, uh no… So it was hard to resume performing live, it’s actually finding seats, ”Hand said of the resurgent IRL music scene. Enjoy yourself!