So, to finish the “Lucias Tokas” album. Libby and I were hard at work writing these songs, and one day Roby Duke who was producing the album for his new label Iridian Records calls me up. He says “Marty, I have some bad news, my investor has backed out. There…
Here is installment #32 of “The Life and Times of a Second Call Studio Musician”. The light at the end of the tunnel is approaching, I am thinking maybe three more installments total as the “major” studio sessions are just about done. Entering 1995 things are changing pretty dramatically. As…
Its 1996 and we are now living in Massachusetts. Libby has a good new job, the kids, Ian and Eric are in school and things are looking cool. We buy a house and I put up my project studio. There are a few music publications that are distributed in Boston…
It is amazing that once I moved out of LA the biggest sessions of my career appeared. I was in my new “home”, October of ’96, and my phone rings. It’s producer/engineer Greg Hunt. Greg owns Rosewood Studios in Tyler TX and I had worked for him in the past.…
Well folks, we are winding this thing up over the next few weeks. Moving out of LA was a bit of a risk but I saw the whole online thing coming of age very early. As I may have mentioned before, I had a website up before Bank of America…
The Michael Ruff tour took place in 1999 but backing up to 1998 and into 2000 there were some really good sessions, namely LeAnn Rimes and Steve Holy, both Curb Records artists. These were part of many sessions that I was hired for by Greg Hunt/Rosewood Studios in Tyler TX…
It’s the year 2000. Y2K was a dud, Prince had implored us all to party like it was 1999, so I guess the party is over. My mom’s aunt was wrong when she said that the year 2000 would never be written, of course due to the fact that world…
Doing sessions in Los Angeles and Tyler TX from the time I left LA in 1996 until my last Tyler session in 2003 was a bit tricky. My studio gear which I left with my cartage guy Jim Williamson in LA was substantial and had to be trucked back and…
In the year 2000 one more thing happened which was quite interesting. I had been writing/recording/producing “Library Music” cues for a company in LA since the early 90’s, Transition Music. Lots of stuff that was placed in TV primarily. One day my contact there, Jennifer Brown calls me. They need…
In writing this weeks blog I realized that I had left something cool out from previous installments. I have to back up and tell you about the band I started when arriving in Massachusetts, “Peanut Funker and Jam”. When we moved in 1996 I had to meet musicians so I…
