by beachraven | Jul 9, 2021
Cannery Row, Monterey, California One Saturday morning in 1990, I drove across Hollywood and walked into a room with about ten Macintosh desktop computers lined up on tables. Margarita Mix and LA Studios (both LA-based studios) were holding a group training for...
by beachraven | Jul 3, 2021
I’d heard of the band Agent Orange. They were considered surf punk, but I’d never been to a show, nor could I remember hearing one of their records. That’s how it was. I’d get a call and show up. With no internet, the only way to check out a...
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...
