It was 20 Years Ago today! Duran Duran’s Wedding Album
February 23rd, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Where did the time go? The 20th anniversary of the release of the Wedding Album by Duran Duran was today. It was certainly a milestone in my life. I love this album! Reflections on Duran Duran’s the “Wedding Album” has thoughts from the band and friends including me. There were so many side stories during the […]
Our Last Fairlight
January 4th, 2013 § Comments Off on Our Last Fairlight § permalink
Sometime in early 1987 Dee and I were well and truly not enamored with the Fairlight CMI III. It made us £30,000 pounds more in debt when we moved to AIR Studios, and that was after trading in our Series IIX. And by that time we were mostly using Akai S900’s with our Apple Mac SE […]
Sir George Martin Day 2012
January 3rd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
All the best to Sir George on his 86th birthday! Here are a couple of shots from inside Studio 5 at AIR Studios on Oxford Street in the 1980s.
Fairlight CMI
November 22nd, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
The link to SYCO’s Fairlight demonstration from the early 1980’s was so wonderful. These machines were really awesome! We got ours at ESP in 1981. Dee Long had to cut his hair and shave his beard to get it! It was a Series II. Later we upgraded to the IIX and then the Series III. And […]
Jack Richardson
May 18th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Jack Richardson, CM, has left the studio for the final time. After decades of being Canada’s father of record producing, “Sir” Jack passed away last week in London, Ontario at the young age of 81. In his career Jack produced many of the Guess Who hits including These Eyes and American Woman. In the mid […]
1989 Studio 5 version 3 at AIR Studios Oxford St.
November 15th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Pulling out the past.
Remembering Studio 5 at AIR Studios, Oxford Street
November 15th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
It started out as the tape copy room. By 1986 it was a ‘state of the art’ Fairlight/MIDI studio on the fourth floor of the Burton building in Oxford Circus. The pictures are from a Sound Recording Magazine, Japan, July 1987, article about George Martin’s AIR Studios.
AIR Studios
September 6th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Puppet Anarchy discovers Klaatu
July 3rd, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
The original song is from KLAATU, who were the main influence on my music career. Thanks to DEE LONG for that, and the link!
ESP was Awesome!
March 23rd, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Click the photo to go to a page I put up some years ago of ESP Studios in Buttonville, Canada. Along with Dee Long, Frank Watt, Noel, John Clarke, our families and many friends, we we managed to record and produce a lot of music between 1979 and 1985 in the old blacksmith shop, and […]