Riding in the car with Barry Rogers. I spent a lot of time in the studio and moving to and from the studio, with Barry Rogers. In the studio, Barry would explain to me the convolutions, the nuance, of crafting a recorded or live performance. It was an education for me. I would then demonstrate […]
Creating the Barrio del Pilar (Go Play With Traffic). Barry Rogers was producing and album for Harvey Averne’s record Company, “Coco”, called “Pasaporte”. The group was called Orchestra Broadway. This was a Latin music album in a style called “Charanga”. Charanga as a style had existed for a while, but at the time (1976) it […]
My first personal Multi-track Machine Around 1976-1977, I had quit Sound Exchange Studio and rented a little space within David Brown’s Photo Studio- 6 West 20th Street. It was not a recording studio, but it did have a silent room within a room, in the middle of the photo studio. There I started my own […]
WHISTLE WITH THE ORCHESTRA Like you’re ever allowed to. When I was little, every summer my mother and father would rent a little cottage up in South Fallsburg, NY. From Memorial Day to just past Labor Day I would live 97 miles from New York City in the area know as the Catskills. I would […]
Getting into Theatrical Sound Design. “Sophisticated Ladies” I had engineered and compiled a five record set of Duke Ellington’s music for M F Records. The work was done with Mercer Ellington, Duke’s son and very talented Band Leader/Writer in his own right. That 5 record set led to recording a new album with/by Mercer Ellington. […]
“GET OUT OF MY WAY SHRIMPY!” Over the years I have been asked to present a number of live presentations for the Audio Engineering Society. The AES is the Society of Audio Engineers, for any kind of sound. Live sound, recorded sound, film, theater, sound design, any kind of sound person would join the AES. […]
By 1991 automated lighting boards were common in the theater. A lighting board turned on specific lights out of hundreds, each to a specific amount. Each lighting change took multiple dimmers being manually raised or lowered to a specific amount. Now with lighting automation, the changes to the dimmers were all changed by a computer. […]
I had the pleasure of meeting some amazing people during my life. Gregory Peck was one of them. During the creation of Will Rogers Follies – the Broadway musical, Gregory Peck was brought to New York to become the voice of Flo Ziegfeld. Mr. Ziegfled was the big Broadway impresario of the time. He would […]
I was working in my studio, mixing a new recording for Harvey Averne. The session had run through part of the day and it was Tuesday 6:30PM. I remember the exact time very clearly as that is the time when all the Broadway theaters turn “on”, after the Sunday – Monday off-day. I had set up an A/C […]
The Fania All-Stars at Yankee Stadium. August 1973 I think. I’ll look it up. The year or two before, Masucci had put together the All-Star concert at the Cheetah, in NYC. It was a tremendous success. The place held about 2000? people and about 4000? were jammed in. Outside on the street were another 4000? […]