Sir Douglas Quintet. Being Early Can Make You Late?
Date: 1984 Artist: Sir Douglas Quintet Album: Rio Medina Place: San Antonio Texas How Being Early Can Make You Late? Back in 1984, I found myself heading to San Antonio…
My Book Is Now Available From Amazon
After what feels like forever and in fact was a lifetime, I'm thrilled to announce that my book is finished and on sale If you are even slightly intrigued and…
Status Quo & Young and Moody & The Devil Went Down
Place - Pye Studios - De Lane Lea Studios Wembley Time - 1970s Artist - Status Quo - Young & Moody For over 50 years Status Quo, known today more…
A Look At Vic Maile Recording Engineer/Producer & Close Friend
Place - Pye Studios/Mobile/DeLane Lea /UK Time - 1969 - 1989 Artist/Producer - Vic Maile Engineer and Producer. Vic Maile started his career as a sound engineer in 1965 at…
Joe Sun & What’s An English Guy Know About Country Music
Place - Nashville - London - Sweden Time - 1984 Artist - Joe Sun And The Solarsystem James Paulsen September 25, 1943, – October 25, 2019, known professionally as Joe…
Eldorado The Album & Meeting Lou Clark For The First Time
Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley - Nashville Time - 1974 - 2007 Artist - Louis Clark Louis Clark Born 27 February 1947 Died 13 February 2021, was an…
John & Yoko-Tony Wilson & The Birth Of Hot Chocolate
Place - UK - USA - Trinidad Time - 70's - 80's - 90's Artist - Tony Wilson Tony Wilson Was born in Trinidad and was involved with music from…
Nostromo The Alien Theme – In Space No One Can Make You Dance – Except – Nostromo
Time - 1979 Place - De Lane Lea Studios Wembley - Bronze Studios Artist - Nostromo Nostromo Was a studio band I put together 1979 to release a disco single…
Special Little Moments (From The Blogs) Pt 2
Place - The World Time - 1960 - 2005Artists - Various David Carradine – Fascinating? Maybe. Weird? Definitely For the full story go to Stories David Carradine was best known…
Geriatric Dinosaurs Join The Party
Tubeway Army Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley, United Kingdom Time - April 1978 Artist - Tubeway Army Tubeway Army Were a London-based punk band led by lead singer…
You Gotta Have Faith that I’m Your Man
Place - Wembley/Edgware Time - 1979/80 Artist - Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - Singer & Songwriter/Record Producer Georgios Panayiotou Was an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Known as a leading creative force…
Peter Green Part 2: The Most Horrendous Argument
Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1997 Artist - Peter Green- AKA Peter Greenbaum Album - The Robert Johnson Songbook Production Credits As we were making progress with…
Peter Green Part 1: Do You Believe In The After Life
Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1997 Artist - Peter Green AKA Peter Greenbaum Album - The Robert Johnson Songbook Peter Green had reached legendary status over the…
Secrets In The Attic
Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1994 Artist - Alisha's Attic Alisha's Attic was a successful duo in the mid-nineties. The two sisters Karen and Shelly are the…
Sham 69: Got What It Takes To Be A Star
Place - De Lane Lea Studios, England Time - 1977 Artist - Sham 69 Engineer - Rafe McKenna In early 1977 whilst working at De Lane Lea the managing director,…
Cajun Adventure Part 4: Treachery & Greed
Place - London, England Time - 1992 Artist - Toby The next eighteen months would relieve me of both my sanity and $50,000. The first six months was spent negotiating…
Cajun Adventure Part 3: Baloo really was a Bear
Place - Lafayette, Louisiana Time - 1992 Artist - Toby Tomera Baloo Arrives Having spoken to Camey Doucet I phoned Toby almost immediately, I explained who I was and about…
Cajun Adventure Part 2: The Happening That Never Happened
Place - Triangle Club Scott, Louisiana Time - 1992 Radio DJ - Camey Doucet The Triangle Club After a good night sleep at a Carlean hotel I was up early…
Cajun Adventure Part 1: The Search for Talent in Louisiana
Place - Louisiana Time - 1992 Artist - Toby Tomera First a quick history lesson, don't worry I'll keep it short. In 1605 French settlers arrived in what is now…
The Doors – In the Dark About the Bass Player
Place - Isle of Wight Festival Time - Saturday 29th August 1970 Artist - The Doors Late on the Saturday evening we were receiving a lot of feedback in the…
The Who Live At The Oval Cricket Ground 1971
Place - The Oval Cricket Grand Time - 18th September 1971 Artist - The Who The Pye mobile recording studio was hired to record the Goodbye Summer: Concert for Bangladesh…
The Who – Hells Angels and a Broken Drum Mic
Place - Isle Of Wight Festival Time - 30th August 1970 Artist - The Who By Saturday the 29th of August the festival was well on its way. There were…
Dr Feelgood and the Secret to Stupidity
The Place - De Lane Lea, Wembley The Time - August 1976 Artist - Dr Feelgood The Album - Stupidity Engineer - Vic Maile Dr. Feelgood formed in 1971 was…
Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 3 – The Sessions
The place - Different Fur Studios - San Francisco The time - December 1983 Artist - Sir Douglas Quintet The producer - Kenny Denton Five days and counting On the…
Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 2 – The Rehearsal
The Band- Sir Douglas Quintet Place - Mill Valley San Francisco Time - 1982 Rehearsal Studio On arriving at my motel I was informed that there was no reservation made…
Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 1 – A Bad Start
The Band - Sir Douglas Quintet Place -Sweden & San Francisco Time - 1982 Album - Midnight Sun "You can always tell a Texan but you can't tell him much."…
30 Million in Just 2 Minutes, What a Triumph!
Place - Pye Recording Studios Time - 1970 Artist - Mungo Jerry Producer - Barry Murray Engineers - Terry Evennett & Howard Barrow Mungo Jerry’s greatest success was with the…
ELO and Jeff – So Wrong Yet So Right
Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley Time - February 1974 Artist - ELO The Electric Light Orchestra is a rock band from Birmingham, England. By the mid 70s they…
Clem Cattini Performs Some Real Magic
Place - Decca Studios, London Time - Mid 60s Producer - Dick Rowe The renowned Dick Rowe was the producer on this Decca Studios session. Famously he was head of…