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The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 12

January 23, 2017Marty Walsh

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 14

February 13, 2017Marty Walsh

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 20

April 3, 2017Marty Walsh

Hey everybody, so continuing in 1987 I started a writing relationship with one Frank Musker. Frank had written hits in the 70’s and since I was having a hard time getting the doors opened in the writer/publishing arena I thought “Hey why not write with an established writer?” Doing studio…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 24

May 1, 2017Marty Walsh

So we left off with the last sessions I did for Michael Omartian in 1990. The record was for Raymone Carter. The dates were at Omar’s studio in the valley. At that session I remember having a conversation with Michael about the state of the LA music scene. He was…

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The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 12

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 14

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 20

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 24