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…
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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…
The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician part 9
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 12
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 13
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…