How I got Here

I was doing live audio for various artists including Joe Walsh and Stephen Stills. I had previously run the board for Bill Graham's Fillmore West in San Francisco. (1970-72) Joe Walsh was a friend of Chris Stone's, who was co-owner with Gary Kjellgren of the various Record Plants. Joe knew that I wanted to get off the road and into the studio. He called Chris and Chris arranged for me to work as an assistant engineer at the Plant in Sausalito. After several months in the Bay area, I was sent to the Plant in L.A. to assist Gary Olazabel on the Stevie Wonder album "Songs in the Key of Life". In the beginning, I slept in "The Sissy Room", one of the three themed bedrooms in the studio complex. I later moved to a house in Laurel Canyon on Mannix Drive.