|
Post by audiopro on Feb 25, 2018 18:45:14 GMT
Steve likes living in a concise manor. A place for everything, and everything in its place.
|
|
|
Post by hugofuguzev on Feb 26, 2018 6:23:00 GMT
Steve likes living in a concise manor. A place for everything, and everything in its place. Fortunately Steve knows his place: an unemployed trumped up cutting engineer.
|
|
|
Post by aggressivebeta on Feb 28, 2018 16:54:34 GMT
I remember when the boss and I first started working with Ray Charles. Ray thought we were trying to pull a fast one (just a misunderstanding, soon corrected) and he called us down to his studio so he could yell at us in person. So, like dorks, we went. There was Ray Charles giving us a tongue lashing and there we were, taking it. Soon Ray got a bit disoriented and was yelling at the wall while we were to his left. Marshall and I looked at each other, shrugged, and then moved over to be right in front of him again. Both of us were thinking "wow, we are being yelled at by RAY CHARLES!" Funny but true. But no one wants to come here to be yelled at about their work. We ain't Ray Charles. I spoke with Terry Howard, Ray Charles' Engineer of 20+years (Ray used to laugh that he "stole Terry from Barbra Streisand"), and about two weeks before Mr. Howard was arrested (after winning several Grammys for "Genius Loves Company" and BTW, got ripped off for what should have been his Producer credits on a song or two)-Terry told me that after DCC released several Ray projects, one of the versions of "Georgia On My Mind" ended up missing, either the album version or the single version (can't recall) was not locatable, and as Terry said: "Ray was just sick about it". As far as that news story from the BBC above, chalk it up to jealousy in the office. Terry was acquitted. The only people who had access to those "Georgia On My Mind" tapes at the time were: Terry Howard, Steve Hoffman and Ray himself. Later, though, Steve did manage to locate a version of a Brother Ray tune with no reverb on it from a record company friend in Germany, and sent it to Terry. Hoffman's guilty conscience? viewtopic.php?p=13311So, essentially, Hoffy DID pull a fast one and managed to place the blame on someone else's shoulder. Be proud of your fearless leader, SHites, be proud. I assume the “Brother Ray tune with no reverb on it” that Hoffman “located” was the missing “Georgia on My Mind” master?
|
|
|
Post by audiopro on Feb 28, 2018 17:33:59 GMT
He once claimed his 24 Karat "Hit The Road Jack" was taken from an alternative master with less reverb. It sounded exactly the same to me as all the other stereo versions I've got. Maybe half a second more fade, that's all.
He must have been asked about it, because I can't find the post to link to it.
|
|
|
Post by aggressivebeta on Feb 28, 2018 17:48:37 GMT
This story seems like it'd be pretty easy to verify or debunk. Huffy WAS an unpaid volunteer at Pacifica when they were getting the Patty Hearst tapes. I bet he wasn’t the tape operator who was on Cronkite though.
|
|
|
Post by Brick Wall on Feb 3, 2019 12:57:11 GMT
We all know about STEVE's rocket-fueled career. He was involved in anything and everything happening in SoCal in the 70s. Just imagine - in 1974 the SLA left their infamous ransom tape at the exact radio station STEVE was moonlighting at while attending college. How about that? Why, if it wasn't for STEVE, Patty Hearst may have remained Tania for the rest of her life. In 1971, a mere three years earlier, big Daddy Hoofman took little STEVIE to the Thrifty Drug Store to buy him a new needle for his minty Zenith rekkid player. Cost $2.00. Which just goes to show you how fast and how much our Host accomplished in his whirl-wind lifetime. Thanks, STEVE!
|
|
|
Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 26, 2019 20:24:44 GMT
Back in the 1970s I loved a pioneering female rock band called FANNY. They have many fans, loyal to this day. Their ace guitar player/singer June Millington and drummer Alice de Buhr are our Facebook Friends. When I stumbled on this newly restored 1971 video from the German BEAT CLUB TV show of Radio Bremen, I couldn't believe it. The quality, the music, the band. They were SO fantastic. So, here is June Millington on guitar, her sister Jean Millington on bass guitar, Alice de Buhr on drums and Nickey Barclay on keyboards. Watch and love! From November of 1971.. Just thought of a Fanny related story. It was like 1983 or so, and our record company was having a picnic with the label execs and the Go-Go's. Celebrating something or other, one of their releases going gold maybe. We were all sitting around chatting and one of the top execs of the company (who shall be nameless) muttered over in our direction: "Personally, I'm a Fanny Freak myself." I looked at him astonished and said "Me too!" We shook hands and that was it. Our way of reminding our little group where the real talent was.. Funny, haven't thought of that in years. "Fanny Freaks!"
|
|
bradman
Better than Steve
Posts: 5,116
|
Post by bradman on Feb 26, 2019 21:34:57 GMT
I got a hankerin' for Honey Bees;
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 0:34:58 GMT
I hear DeVoe likes fanny ...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 0:35:40 GMT
|
|
hoffa_nagila
Better than Steve
Posts: 5,927
Member is Online
|
Post by hoffa_nagila on Feb 27, 2019 1:04:42 GMT
Fanny Freaks Facebook friends UNITE!
|
|
|
Post by respiratoryproblems on Feb 27, 2019 7:27:19 GMT
There’s another thread where SHiTes can’t contain their glee at the band’s name. By sheer coincidence, I watched that Beat Club footage the other week for the first time, and bought a couple of their albums off the back of it. They’re okay- they’re pretty good players and singers, but some of the songs are dreadful. I hear DeVoe likes fanny ... Has anyone told him Todd Rundgren produced one of their albums? It’s a win-win for him.
|
|
|
Post by audiobile on Feb 27, 2019 16:55:30 GMT
DeVoe is a Fanny Freak, I hear.
|
|
|
Post by Sanjay Gupton on Feb 27, 2019 19:33:21 GMT
There’s another thread where SHiTes can’t contain their glee at the band’s name. By sheer coincidence, I watched that Beat Club footage the other week for the first time, and bought a couple of their albums off the back of it. They’re okay- they’re pretty good players and singers, but some of the songs are dreadful. I hear DeVoe likes fanny ... Has anyone told him Todd Rundgren produced one of their albums? It’s a win-win for him. I like Fanny. Their albums are a little uneven, mostly because of songwriting, but they were a tight band and good musicians. They have a spot in Rock history, and if you're digging around Rock's back pages, they're a cool thing to come across. They sound pretty dated now and weren't exactly reinventing the wheel when they were releasing albums. If they had been pushing the envelope musically, they'd have never got a recording contract. They needed to be a more than competent Rock band, and they were. That Beat Club video is pretty cool. There's some other ones showing up on Youtube lately from other bands, and they're kind of cool too. The blue screen gets a little old, though.
|
|
|
Post by respiratoryproblems on Feb 27, 2019 22:04:16 GMT
Yeah, I made the mistake of picking the last album with Patti Quattro as guitarist as a first listen, and it’s mostly dreck. But the earlier albums I’ve heard have a load of good stuff on them; that slide guitar on the cover of Ain’t That Peculiar is very tasty.
I think their primary fault is that there’s an imbalance in material - the Millngton sisters seem to be the more interesting songwriters and singers, but Nickey Barclay is the dominant voice and songwriter, and her stuff is mostly unremarkable. Saying that, I realised today that she wrote one of the better songs on the Flying Burrito Brothers’ comeback album Airborne.
|
|