by beachraven | Nov 28, 2020
Venice Beach, California When I met Tommy, he was managing a small motel spa in the desert. He had that slow, confident desert way about him, and I liked him right off. I got to know and respect Tommy over the years by the stories he told about organizing peace...
by beachraven | Nov 20, 2020
The wind blew. A morning sun angled through the trees, and chimes in the neighborhood rang an alarm of something approaching with a howling from above in the pine trees and a deep gust creating wave-like splashes of leaves and foam rolling from the fallen red and...
by beachraven | Nov 14, 2020
I was hired to record an orchestra for a Pacific Bell commercial campaign. We booked one of my favorite studios, Westlake, Studio C in Hollywood. It was a beautiful room with a Neve Console and Studer tape machines but the thing I loved about it was the skylight over...