Artist Spotlight is a segment that we started to introduce our listeners to some deserving up and coming artists/ bands. They have made an impact on us for all of the right reasons. We think they kick ass and we hope you do too! Today, we’d like to shine the spotlight on Lucky Lamond.
Lucky Lamond (also known as Steph) is a California native of both sunny, warm San Diego and foggy, philosophical San Francisco, a duality that plays out in her art. A lifelong lover of music and the music business, she’s just now getting around to recording her own first album, which is heavily influenced by the stories she’s soaked up and lived thus far. Keep an eye out for her album later this year.
Some people know it when they hear a classic album or see someone perform. Do you know when you were bitten by the music bug and knew this was your path?
I think there’s a two part answer for that–I knew I loved playing when I sounded out my first song, the theme from Lord of the Rings, probably around age 7 or 8. That was the first soundtrack that really touched my heart in a way that I just knew I had to be part of it by playing it (after which my piano teacher told me I was playing it wrong, and plunked sheet music in front of me that didn’t match what I heard in my head… womp womp). So I don’t think it fully clicked that it was my PATH until my high school musical theater program, and the first time I triggered a sound effect in a live show… I’ll never forget that thrill of sitting behind the board in that dark theater. I was home.
What was your first recording experience like?
It was absolutely epic–Hyde Street Studios’ Studio A with Pamela Parker engineering, as part of my buddy Jaemi’s project, Pine Pitch. I got to record on Frank Sinatra’s white piano. Another experience of being behind a board that I’ll never forget; Pamela was so patient, answered all my questions about how every piece of gear worked, and gave me my first real sense of welcome in a studio I’d had since high school. I’m truly lucky that my first recording experience was a great one.
Does anyone else in your family have the music gene?
Very much so on the Irish side! My great-grandmother Kat Keough used to entertain dinner party guests with piano and her lovely voice, something she passed to my grandma, Barbara Lamond, who expressed her gift more subtly as a teacher. Of her kids, to my knowledge, my uncles play bass and piano, and my dad’s the drummer; he’s an incredible drummer, as is my little brother. My mom is very much a music appreciator but still sits down at the piano every now and then, and I love to hear her play. And then there’s me!
What’s the strangest job you’ve ever had?
I worked at Legoland’s Sea Life Aquarium in San Diego during college and taught kids about sharks. I was that gal in cargo shorts hovering over the touch tanks, making sure no one grabbed a sea cucumber too hard. The cleaner shrimp were my favorite; they gave great manicures!
If you could pick any musician (dead or alive) to sit down with and have a drink and chat, who would it be?
I’d split a bottle of whiskey with Neil Peart, preferably upstairs at Vesuvio Bar in San Francisco, and talk about motorcycles, existence, and what it’s like on the other side.
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