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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 15

February 20, 2017Marty Walsh

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 22

April 17, 2017Marty Walsh

Hi all, here is installment #22 After the Benny Hester sessions with Jeff that I talked about last week I just kept booking what I could. The Supertramp and John Fogerty gigs were certainly in the rear view mirror at this point and I was really not looking to go…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 25

May 8, 2017Marty Walsh

Finishing up 1991 there were three more major label records that I played on. As I have said before I’m still making a living doing jingles, sound alikes for Pioneer, smaller label records and a bit of TV/Film work, but I have not been on a hit since the mid…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 26

May 22, 2017Marty Walsh

So here we are in 1992. Survival time. Our son Eric was born in 1991 and I remember a saying my good friend Rob Dekarr said to me before Libby and I had children. Rob is a great guitar player and we had a band way back in the late…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 39

September 18, 2017Marty Walsh

In the year 2000 one more thing happened which was quite interesting. I had been writing/recording/producing “Library Music” cues for a company in LA since the early 90’s, Transition Music. Lots of stuff that was placed in TV primarily. One day my contact there, Jennifer Brown calls me. They need…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 40

September 25, 2017Marty Walsh

In writing this weeks blog I realized that I had left something cool out from previous installments. I have to back up and tell you about the band I started when arriving in Massachusetts, “Peanut Funker and Jam”. When we moved in 1996 I had to meet musicians so I…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 41

October 9, 2017Marty Walsh

Fast forward to 2002. Fall. As my out of town session world was winding down and while I had somewhat gotten integrated into the Boston music scene, I get a phone call from drummer Tom Major. Tom has a band called “Entrain”. They are musically very unique and quite popular…

The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 42

October 16, 2017Marty Walsh

We have now pretty much finished with the LA scene although there were scattered sessions here and there that I was hired to do arrangements for. I would work on arrangements at my home studio then fly to LA with lots of pre-production files on a hard drive and do…

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