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The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician Part 8

December 19, 2016Marty Walsh

Before I get to more recording session news I have to tell you about the very fortuitous event that happened to me in 1979. There was a club in Toluca Lake CA called Jason’s that I started frequenting with friends of mine. Great bands played there. A fellow by the…

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 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 16

February 27, 2017Marty Walsh

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

March 6, 2017Marty Walsh

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 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…

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