This evening...

Wood67


I am going to the St George Pub in Gt Portland Street for a drink with my old Studio Manager, and one of the TapeOps.  Neither of whom I've seen since 1992.  Should be interesting.

Take a one of these along for fun....

I for one, do not Wood.

Wood67


You didn't enjoy wrapping yourself in endless edit sections, forgetting to mark up L-R and then stitching them back in reverse when the producer said it sounded better before the cuts?  Or telling the tape-op that if you run your thumbnail over the tape by your ear you could just make out the top end?

What about aligning the play/record heads on all the tracks?  Oh, how I enjoyed whistling 1Khz reference tones early in the morning.

Ah yes..... the good 'ol days.

Chris, are those the guys you worked with when BD gave you your nickname

 
The very same crowd.  Of the three others who were there:
 
One left the scene in '96 to run a Gite in southern france.  He's never done a bit of music since, which is a pity as he was a great jazz engineer who'd worked with the James Taylor Quartet.  Taught me how to mike overheads to get a wonderful sizzly cymbal sound.
 
Another had joined a band around the same time, did a vast amount of substance abuse, and now has no memory of that period of his life at all.  He seems reasonably ok now, but does have a beard.
 
The third was sad.  Great musician and producer who contracted a viral infection last year in his ears.  He has lost 75% of everything above 2k in one ear, and 50% in the other. Apparently the same sense you have when your sinuses get blocked.  How crippling is that?  He still gigs and composes, but now has an engineer to mix.
 
They told me I still looked about 12 years old, lol!