Here is the latest installment of my blog “The Life and Times of A Second Call Studio Musician”. A few months ago I was in Boston thinking about when I was 23 years old and playing with Eddie Kendricks at a club on Boylston St. called “Paul’s Mall”. I searched…
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The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 5
The last Seals and Crofts live dates were in the first week of November 1977 in Lake Tahoe CA. Here is a backstage pass from Medford Oregon a week prior. Jesse Colin Young opened up the show. A few years ago I taught his son Tristan at Berklee. Excellent bass…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 6
We left off in the year 1978, when I was still doing quite a few demos for various songwriters. As I previously mentioned I was doing work for arranger/producer Don Costa. Don had a small studio in Hollywood where we recorded lots of demos for a songwriting team that he…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 7
So we are now entering the 80’s where I did the bulk of my session work. As I said in the last installment, when I did the Yvonne Elliman session for Steve Barri, my buddy Jay Graydon who was also on the recording date was essentially getting out of the…