Chapter 19 Headed East to the ‘Big Apple’ House of Hearts “Da Butt” I was finished with Los Angeles at a point where the money was in bad shape and money from working with Rory on the road was not nearly enough to afford to stay in Los Angeles. But[…]
Chapter 18 LA LA Land “We Are the World” / Don’t leave without me. / “Gypsy Boy” La La Land, as Stevie loved to call it, was for me a place for lots of work and lots of play. Yes, I attended my fair share of parties while living there.[…]
Chapter 17 Go West Young Man! Wonderland “Overjoyed” The Bossa Nova Hotel and “Maniac(s)” The ‘Pope of Pop’ and Bossa Nova Hotel Well, that Christmas turned out to be a momentous one for me indeed. This has not been an account of my personal life but rather my professional one.[…]
Chapter 16 The album that wasn’t and the some that were “What You Gonna Do ‘bout My Lovin’” / “Put Your Body in It” Stevie and MYX Saying goodbye As a First Engineer I got to do a lot of cool projects in the many years at Sigma but one[…]
Chapter 15 Holdin’ My Own “Help Me, Somebody Please” / “Cry Together” Stevie keeps his word / Jermaine Jackson “Silly” My Melody After maybe seven or more years at Sigma, I had never received a single comment from my boss Joe Tarsia about my work. Maybe once in a while[…]
Chapter 14 The session that wasn’t… “Seed’s a Star” / The Secret Life of Plants / “Turn Out the Lights” / “Lady Love” Sometime in 1978 Evan Solot approached me with an interesting proposition. Evan played trumpet often in the horn section. I once suggested Evan to play a solo[…]
Chapter 13 Odds and Ends “You Are So Beautiful to Me” / Nightflight Early on while I was still assisting, Don Murray and I were booked to cut a song produced by Richie Rome, a very well respected and excellent arranger and producer from South Philly. It was an odd[…]
Chapter 12 Grover Michael Henderson “Take Me I’m Yours” / In the Night-Time / Wide Receiver Many great artists came and went through the halls of Sigma in the 10 years that I was there. One of the finest spirits I was lucky enough to know was Grover Washington Jr.[…]
Chapter 11 “Fix it in the mix” “I Don’t Love You Anymore” and other Teddy tunes Gene and John During my ten tears at Sigma, I was lucky enough to work with many greats. In the first year and a half that I was an Assistant Engineer I[…]
Chapter 10 Two at once… “Sadie” Thom and the “C” bus WMMR Radio Concerts Don Murray and I were assigned to record a project with Thom Bell. It was to be the next Spinners album but at that time we were recording two albums at the same time. We[…]