whatever you think you know
When I first heard about click tracks I immediately thought it was a contest between people and machines and just as quickly I chose people – any drummer I admired […]
Producing
no plot percussion
Was talking with someone about Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty then re-explored it online. Didn’t realize that the opening swell is a synthesizer not a guitar but more interesting was […]
the computer age
In years past, the engineers at Metalworks always knocked me out when I could afford a recording session there. Their knowledge and talent and kindness were so impressive. Once in […]
radicals
There’s this thing in music software called a plug-in. It simulates physical objects like instruments or amplifiers and all the various physical studio effects reverb, delay, distortion. When you select […]
E flat
When me and Don and Hugh and Wayne made that record with Edie Brickell in the rehearsals and writing we would make a groove and it would feel good and […]
the rejection of Sam Larkin’s grant application
Using your own definitions of your art form, your community and your artistic career, how will this project impact each? This project will impact my art form (composing/performing) by […]
next year
from time to time i return to a project – making commercial sounding demos for some of my songs. my sense is that the michael bublé’s of the world (or […]
before i get too deep
I produced and arranged a whole record for Edie Brickell which never came out. Broke my heart. She was a pretty big artist then, 1991. My band was all over […]
What Happened in Hollywood
Long time ago we were in the movie Postcards From The Edge, quite the amazing moments, fancy hotel, easy work schedule. There goes Gene Hackman, there’s Shirley McLaine and rehearsing […]
ripped off from his solo and alienation
An adventurous guitarist was asked to play a solo on a record but not everyone in the room understood the solo and so he was asked to do another and […]