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The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 6

December 5, 2016Marty Walsh

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

December 12, 2016Marty Walsh

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…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician part 9

January 2, 2017Marty Walsh

First of all I want to say Happy New Year! 🙂 Here’s the ninth installment of my blog, “The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician”. Moving into 1981 my name started appearing on multiple albums, mostly produced by Michael Omartian and Steve Barri. Because of this I…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 13

January 30, 2017Marty Walsh

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

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 21

April 10, 2017Marty Walsh

Well, today we are going back in the time machine again. This week I am compelled to tell you my Jeff Porcaro stories. The Porcaro family had moved to Los Angeles in 1968, moving to the San Fernando valley. I was in high school at the time, and had a…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 23

April 24, 2017Marty Walsh

Ok so here come the 90’s. Big changes afoot. First, the session world while still viable in LA, was thriving in Nashville. There began this mass exodus of LA studio musicians to Nashville. It probably started in the late 80’s but really took off in the early 90’s. Did you…

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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