Producing

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There was an idea to treat outer space like the ocean it is and in 1977 they launched spaceships Voyager 1 & 2 replete with messages in a bottle ostensibly […]

Singing is Believing

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Been in recording sessions where the producer (or the engineer) seems ambivalent towards the singer and inattentive to listening for the emotional content (isn’t that the singer’s job description?). With […]

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There is an idea out there in the world that when recording you should forget about the fact that you are being recorded. That to get the real you you […]

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whoever is producing the record has to be the song’s best friend surround yourself with collaborators who don’t make a hissy fit if you disagree. listen to every vocal take as […]

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Trying to produce records for a couple former students perhaps even 3, whatever I can fit. Part of the exchange, besides enjoying their music or co-writing, besides arranging it to […]

Don't Hurt Me Sweetie

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The 2cnd last time I laughed so hard I needed medical help was when I was 12 at the Odeon Theatre in Winnipeg watching appropriately a farting cowboy scene in […]

Radio Ideas

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I have 3 ideas for radio shows on CBC. I thought about submitting all three at once but it was pointed out to me that I might seem a weirdo […]

Release Party

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It should be swell to release Sam’s last recordings tonight with all sorts of people from the past and present but like finishing this record what pisses me off is […]

A Mike Nichols Film

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My favourite memory of those two weeks in Hollywood and the earlier audition in Toronto was when we went to the dailies of the scene we had been working on. […]

Rich Rhymes

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Rich Marsella came to my class last week and talked about his music business life. It was great but only when I gave him a ride downtown later did I […]