Rounding out 1981 there were a few other recordings of note, one was Gail Davies album “I’ll Be There”. I played on the title track along with Dean Parks. Dean and I did most of the guitar tracks on that album. Great band, Mike Baird on drums, Lee Sklar on…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 12
So in this installment I’m going to backtrack a little bit. While I was doing a lot of sessions and that was going really well, the goal was still to try to get a recording contract for my band The Campaign. Toto had hit big and there were other session…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 13
We left off last week with the Paul Anka record “Walk A Fine Line” and my band The Campaign trying to secure a recording contract. We got close but the negotiations fell apart with Morocco Records. Oh well, back to the drawing board. I was still doing sessions to pay…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 14
Continuing into ’83 there were more sessions for the Donna summer album “She Works Hard For The Money”. Many more obscure sessions on albums that didn’t do much, lots of TV work for 20th Century Fox for my buddy David Fisher. Years before I honed my skills playing on his…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 15
The year 1984 started out fairly slow for my session work. In my book I have a note that I did a Sheena Easton record with Greg Mathieson producing on February 21st. I didn’t recall what song it was so I contacted Greg and he couldn’t remember either but going…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 15 Updated
This is an updated version of “Life and Times #15”. I found photos of the Western Front guys at a mix session so I included those at the end of this new post. The year 1984 started out fairly slow for my session work. In my book I have a…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 16
There were some other first call sessions in ’84. The album “Primitive” by Neil Diamond, again getting the call by Denny Diante. From Wiki: Primitive is the sixteenth studio album by Neil Diamond. It was released in 1984 on Columbia Records. The single “Turn Around”, reached number 4 on the…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 17
With the Supertramp album “Brother Where You Bound” wrapped up they asked myself and my old friend Scott Page if we would go to Europe with them on a “promo” tour. On June 6th of ’85 we left to do two weeks radio/tv promo. I had never been to Europe…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 18
The European leg of the Supertramp tour in 1986 ran from January through mid-March. Upon returning home it took a while to get back into the studio scene. That’s the danger of going on the road. When you’re out of town, producers that have called you in the past that…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 19
So here we are at the beginning of 1987. I’d finished up the the Fogerty tour in December of ’86. January, which is notoriously slow for session work, was REALLY slow! I did one recording session for David Fisher at Universal in all of January, two sessions in February and…