Guest Post On Kapootie Preamps
by TOM ST. LOUIS re tweaking and all that….It’s cool that there are ways to fix things….but I never wanted to lose connection to that pre electricity world. Did Sonnyboy […]
Producing
Taking Pro Pills
I played on Ron Hawkins new album at a East Toronto recording studio today. I remember meeting him more than 20 years ago at the Free Times Cafe. The first […]
Rules
Say yes to every job, even if there is no money. Say no when they ask to own all the publishing. Stall when they ask you to agree to something […]
Desperate Albanian & Crowd Funding
I spoke with Sam in 2011 about crowd-funding to complete the record. I suggested different ideas for making funny videos and he considered it but in the long run he […]
The 20 Year Old Jam Might Still Be Good
There was a CBC radio show called Real Audio created by the inventive Loc Dao and for some fabulous reason they hired me to make 3 pieces for them where […]
Note To Self
Campbell Yates and I secretly met in the coach house he rented as a teenager in the 70s and we listened to this guy who made these crazy records that […]
Have Fun Working
In and around 1990 while recording a 2cnd record to be released on Warner Music Canada, later titled Presented By Lake Michigan Soda, there was a desire to enlist a […]
For The Morning Light
The crystal ball of email presented me two requests this week to make string arrangements which is a nice problem to have. I like to find within the song some […]
Yet Courier
I didn’t know Mary Margaret O’Hara very well when I asked her to sing on my first record in 1988 but I loved the way Greg Keelor described her to […]
Mature And Compassionate Studio Techniques
When I first heard about people using click tracks I was very annoyed, offended actually. Why would a good musician, a drummer, use some electric rhythm generator? It seemed so […]