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NORTH Vancouver musician Mike Foster has sold his rally sounds to baseball's San mane: Giants and
NHL's New Jerse: ‘Devils. The » 27-year-old is set to begin his third year as the

* Forgive him his giddy day-

dreaming, but the North Van ° .

musician has good reason to ;

‘Vancouver S Canucks Organist.
“1: Int addition to playing one
of the highest profil

_ calls Candlestick Park (also
known as 3Com Park) home.
“So there’s lots of songs like
Sitting on the Dock of the
Bay, and It’s a Wild Life.

“And four or five versions
- of I Left My Heart in San

* Francisco.”

‘To capture that nostalgic

~~ “feel desired by the MLB club,

year making
sional teams. Among his high
profile roster he counts the

a = Francisco Giants, the New

"Jersey Devils, and a scattering
wo red double-A pro basebalt
. «clubs. The Giant

a Tic si they wanted
a Fifties’ nostalgia sound,”
"Foster says of the team that

Foster programmed his home-
studio synthesizer to sound

like a smoky Hammond organ.

The results speak for them-

“I wanted to bring, back
some authentic organ music
into the mix,” says

’ Sportschannel scoreboard pr rO-
ducer Curt Dawson. “He
a rea} nice touch with the stan-
dards, He was very responsive

in our needs for a strict base
ball sound as

hockey.” Sportehannel “does
all the ‘game-day production
for both the Giants and the

~ San Francisco 49ers. .

Dawson was so impressed
by Foster’s work that he rec-
ommended the musician to
nearby Clovis High School.
The California high school’s
baseball team used Foster’s
music during its last campaign,
and at the end of the season
were USA Today’ 's top-ranked
high school.

“Their coach sent me a
clipping and included
‘Number One Organist,’”

Foster recalls.

The Carson Graham grad-
uate feels he’s just scratched
the surface of the professional
sport market, and has levelled
his sights on landing his
favorite baseball team, the
Baltimore Orioles.

“T loved them as a kid
when they won the 1983
World Series, and | they’ re still
my favorite team,” says Foster.

Foster still gets an -
nity to explore his gentler side
four evenings a week playing

couver Canucks’ organ-

piano at the William Tell
restaurant on Beatty Strcet in
Vancouver.
cane er, with the thei

tucks preparin| er
training camp in Whistler i in
three weeks time, Foster’s
hometown gig beckons. In
addition to performing live
during Canucks’ games, he
hopes to lend some ideas to
ne overall production pack-

F sHockey is by far my
favorite sport, and the
Canucks my favorite team, so I
think I really know what works
with this crowd and what
doesn’t,” he says.

Prior to the start of this
season, he hopes to take a trip
to San Fran to witness the
music he created in his Central
Lonsdale apartment come to
major league life at
Candlestick Park.

head the golf round with

the boys? Foster puts on his
shades, jumps into his 1968
Mustang. He" 's blowin’ them

off,
Sounds like he’s all set for

‘the big leagues.

— andrew@nsnews.com

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Wednesday, August 20, 1997 — North Ste News — 47

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