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Dave Scott / Music Forecast Looks Good!
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One of San Diego’s most beloved television personalities, meteorologist Dave Scott, forecast his last weather system on March 27 after 30 years with KUSI-TV. While Scott will no longer be on air, he won’t in fact be retiring, indeed, he is returning full time to his first love, music. A world class trombonist and vocalist, in addition to his television work with weather, local stories and his program, “World of Wonder,” Scott has long been a mainstay of Southern California’s jazz venues, with numerous acclaimed albums to his credit. Post television, he’s hitting the ground running with his band. Fans can catch him Tuesday and Thursday nights at Nick & G’s Restaurant in Rancho Santa Fe and Wednesday evenings at Hacienda Casa Blanca in El Cajon. What will Scott miss most about his time with KUSI? “The people,” he said. “You come into their homes on a nightly basis, so people get know you and you get to know them.” He enjoyed his work but was particularly happy to be able to spread the word about events and special folks around town. “You get a chance to do wonderful stories, not only on musicians, like Gilbert Castellanos, Daniel Jackson or Charles McPherson, but so much more. The greatest thing is I was in a position to really help people that needed to get the word out on certain things, a lot of non-profits for example, and so you feel like you’re really helping by doing the stories that you do.” Scott notes how much times have changed since he started out in broadcasting, circa 1991, in Yuma, Arizona, before heading to San Diego a year later to start his three-decade run at KUSI. “Back then we’re talking about the years before internet, so television had a bigger role in helping people get the word out on all sorts of things from muscular dystrophy fundraisers to hundreds of stories on kids in need, and then there’s the military, who are such a big part of San Diego. I was really able to focus the spotlight
on a lot of people, like Jerry Yellin, the last guy to fly a mission in the Pacific in WWII and Stu Hedley, a Pearl Harbor survivor.” The latter provided a special memory. “He can I became friends,” Scott said. “When he was on the midway being honored, he got out of his chair and ran across the flight deck, as only a 94-year-old man can do, and gave me a big hug.” In addition to more live performances, Scott is planning a slew of new recordings, with 100 originals ready in his composition book and more on the way. Future plans include a big band album, a Latin jazz album with keyboardist Irving Flores and a Christmas album. “I released a song, “Christmas With You,” in 2015 and that tune lives on,” he said. “Folks have asked, ‘why don’t you write a full album like that,’ so,
over the past few years since then I’ve written all the material for a holiday album.” One song in particular to look forward to is “Christmas in San Diego. “That’s a really melodic piece,” Scott said. “Lyrically it ties our neighborhoods together, I’m really excited to get that one out.” While the next leg of Scott’s artistic journey is still being composed, he sees a connection between where he’s going and where he’s been. “People say, well Dave, we’re going to miss your “World of Wonder,” and I’m grateful for that. I appreciate the fact that people loved those stories, but I say to them, I’m still writing them. They’d say, ‘what do you mean?’ And I’d reply, “My world of wonders are now called songs,” Scott remarked good naturedly.
Alan Sanderson / Pacific Beat
Opened in 1974, Pacific Beat Studios is a legendary name in San Diego music history, with a slew of great artists, from up-and-coming locals to established international hitmakers, passing through its hallowed doors. Owned by Grammy award winning producer / engineer Alan Sanderson (The Rolling Stones, Burt Bacharach, Elton John, Weezer, Switchfoot etc) the studio is ramping up activity as it
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prepares to head into its fifth decade of making great music. The music community is only now beginning to return to ‘normal’ and Sanderson admits things were looking
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dicey for a bit. “It was Deepak Chopra the started the studio up again in May 2020,” he said. “I thought for sure we were done for and didn’t know when to reopen. When Deepak’s people called I started ‘live’ sessions again and people just started coming back in after that.“ Because of the lock downs a lot of artists from around the world also sent tracks to Sanderson to mix. “A lot of folks used the studio during
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