July 2009
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My mentors: Michael Mantler
Click here for more posts about music and producing records. Photograph of Michael Mantler by Tod Papageorge, 1968
Another in my ongoing series of horrified-to-be-identified-as-my-“mentors:”
Trumpeter and composer Michael Mantler.
Mike was first hand proof that talent, planning, vision, drive, hard work, and sheer force of will could combine to accomplish dreams beyond...
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My mentors: Joe Fields
Click here for more posts about music and producing records. Jazz recording entrepreneur Joe Fields
I’ve been posting quite a few of the records I produced or engineered at the beginning of my career, and lately in particular, the Muse records. Which has gotten me thinking about the incredibly important role Muse founder Joe Fields didn’t mean to play in my work life.
Somehow or...
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"We look before you buy!"
A little known fact about MTV Networks (originally called Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, a second little known fact) was that its original strategy called for the eventual launch of ten networks. They thought about games and sports, in addition to music, movies, and kids; their fourth one was to be shopping. As the company’s creative director, my team went to work in the...