by beachraven | Jun 25, 2021
Yesterday, I went through a large box of tapes I recorded years ago. The majority were demos or unreleased albums of unsigned bands (bands that never landed a record contract). The genre range was wide: rock, pop, metal, punk, and jazz. Why some bands get signed and...
by beachraven | Jun 18, 2021
Allan Holdsworth with recording engineer Robert Feist during the recording of the Metal Fatigue LP circa 1985 The first day I worked with Allan Holdsworth as a recording engineer, our session ran late into the evening. At about one a.m. I recorded copies of the...
by beachraven | Jun 11, 2021
Monterey Bay, California The bay looks different every day. I can’t ride my bike past it without taking photos, so I have about ten million of them. Storm clouds with a choppy surface give it a dark-grey moody feel, cold and brooding, angry and...
by beachraven | Jun 4, 2021
Zomevhere, Berlin, Germany I used to have a fixed idea of how a snare drum should sound. I’d spend hours changing mics, having the drummer tune the drum, change the drum, dampen the head. Then the band Yes came out with their song, “Owner of a Lonely Heart.”...
