WOW, you played with Joe Cocker!? Must've been an amazing experience!
Well, "played" is almost correct. That show was MTV New Years "Subway To LA" which was taped in front of a live audience about 3 days before New Years Eve 1988 at a venue called The Country Club in Reseda, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was edited and played during the MTV New Years broadcast from NYC, as they wanted to give the appearance of the show being LIVE between the two coasts.
Joe sang live, the rest of us, musicians and backround singers, were simply pantomiming to a prerecorded track on DAT tape. We got the tape, of the 2 songs we had never heard before, 20 minutes before taping and had to learn them as best we could. If you look closely, you can see I made a few mistakes. My drum heads were covered with white vinyl flooring material, and the cymbals (Zildjian Platinum series) were each two cymbals glued together so as to reduce stage noise. But hey, it looks good on my resume right?
BTW, in the other videos we are actually playing live on TV with singer/songwriter Danny Wilde who went on to form the band The Rembrandts.