San Francisco Stories
Jan 23, 2009 4:15 PM
Most Popular
advertisement
Polls
TalkBack
AES N.Y. is coming up and we want to know what about your favorite New York recording story. E-mail us at mixeditorial@mixonline.com.
This Month in Mix
Taking the train from Palo Alto [Calif.] to the city in the fall of 1967 to hear the Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Big Brother play at Winterland. The ticket was $3.00. My ears are still ringing from Janis' shrieking emanating from the stacks of Marshall amps. Jim Hewitt
I am a Bay Area violinist who has worked in every genre of music for more than 35 years, both live and in the studio. I'm still in there pitching, mostly playing weddings, and branching out into sound recording with my new little studio, which is why I'm coming to the AES show for the first time.
I have a lifetime of stories and “magic moments,” but one of my favorites is taking part in Boz Scaggs' Paramount Theatre [Oakland, Calif.] shows in mid-1975, and the later New Year's Eve run in the same venue. Imagine: a 30-year-old longtime rock music fan (though classically trained) working as assistant concertmaster of a huge rock 'n' roll orchestra in the classiest venue in the Bay Area.
Also, we were playing some arrangements from Boz's Moments album that had been lost, but I “reconstituted” them for him. It's about as close to pop music heaven as I'd been up to that time, and it has seldom been equaled (although some of the Bammie Award shows that I played every year for a decade, a 1986 national tour with Van Morrison, and Bjork's show at the Paramount a few years ago, all came close).
—John Tenney
Tell Us Your Story!
Acceptable Use Policy blog comments powered by Disqus
Modern Recording and Mixing
This 2-DVD set will show you how the best in the music industry set up a studio to make world-class records. Regardless of what gear you are using, the information you'll find here will allow you to take advantage of decades of expert knowledge. Order now $39.95
Mastering Cubase 4
Electronic Musician magazine and Thomson Course Technology PTR have joined forces again to create the second volume in their Personal Studio Series, Mastering Steinberg's Cubase(tm). Edited and produced by the staff of Electronic Musician, this special issue is not only a must-read for users of Cubase(tm) software, but it also delivers essential information for anyone recording/producing music in a personal-studio. Order now $12.95
Delivered straight to your inbox every other week, MixLine takes you straight into the studio, with new product announcements, industry news, upcoming events, recent recording/post projects and much more. 
AES 2009: Slate Pro Audio Trigger
Upgrading Studio A at Santa Barbara Sound