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By Frank Wells   10.21.2011      
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1 Posted by : dgoggin
Nov 08, 2011 2:20PMREPLY
Well done, Frank. It's nice to be reminded about the music as the real reason for all of our hard work!
2 Posted by : Anonymous
Jan 25, 2012 2:20PMREPLY
Frank, thanks for the memories. I was there for the William Topley session. It was one of the last sessions that Dann Huff played as a "session player". Williams session was still one of my favorite sessions in there. Don't forget that we also did Etta James in there with Barry Beckett producing. I was also there for the "groundbreaking" Sinatra sessions. You had to go through lots of hurdles to get an ISDN line setup in there. Great memories of the Masterfonics days. You were one of the very few techs that had the Technical brain AND the social skills to pull off being nice to the "lowly" engineer peeps. Thanks Frank for keeping the memories alive. David Hall
3 Posted by : fwells
Jan 26, 2012 2:20PMREPLY
David: Thanks for chiming in. Chris Davies and I were reminiscing at NAMM about some of the "good old days." There were legions of fun sessions, and I only named a few. Etta, Topley, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Neil McCoy, Charlie Daniels, all the Beckett sessions with his own "A-Team" and you, Dave Boyer, Csaba Petocz, Pete Greene. Engineers like Lynn Peterzell, Justin Niebank, Mike Clute, John Guess, Steve Marcantonio, Jeff Balding. The lists of artists, producers and engineers could just go on and on. Thanks for the kudos--today's assistants are tomorrows "first chair" engineers, so my team always looked to the future--and there you are today, along with folks like Julian King, Derek Bason and Jim DeMain and many, many others. And sessions always worked best when we worked closely with our clients, especially the assistants--they were the key to keeping a session running smoothly, doing all the grunt work, knowing the session flow as well or better than the engineer's of note. It always seemed a natural call to me to build relationships with the assistants. They actually were very powerful--how they reacted to crisis situations could make or break a day of recording and I always hoped that knowing we had their back would help keep the lines of communication open, get us early reports of looming situations, keeping down any tendency to panic. Seems to have been the right call.
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1 Posted by : dgoggin
Nov 08, 2011 2:20PMREPLY
Well done, Frank. It's nice to be reminded about the music as the real reason for all of our hard work!
2 Posted by : Anonymous
Jan 25, 2012 2:20PMREPLY
Frank, thanks for the memories. I was there for the William Topley session. It was one of the last sessions that Dann Huff played as a "session player". Williams session was still one of my favorite sessions in there. Don't forget that we also did Etta James in there with Barry Beckett producing. I was also there for the "groundbreaking" Sinatra sessions. You had to go through lots of hurdles to get an ISDN line setup in there. Great memories of the Masterfonics days. You were one of the very few techs that had the Technical brain AND the social skills to pull off being nice to the "lowly" engineer peeps. Thanks Frank for keeping the memories alive. David Hall
3 Posted by : fwells
Jan 26, 2012 2:20PMREPLY
David: Thanks for chiming in. Chris Davies and I were reminiscing at NAMM about some of the "good old days." There were legions of fun sessions, and I only named a few. Etta, Topley, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Neil McCoy, Charlie Daniels, all the Beckett sessions with his own "A-Team" and you, Dave Boyer, Csaba Petocz, Pete Greene. Engineers like Lynn Peterzell, Justin Niebank, Mike Clute, John Guess, Steve Marcantonio, Jeff Balding. The lists of artists, producers and engineers could just go on and on. Thanks for the kudos--today's assistants are tomorrows "first chair" engineers, so my team always looked to the future--and there you are today, along with folks like Julian King, Derek Bason and Jim DeMain and many, many others. And sessions always worked best when we worked closely with our clients, especially the assistants--they were the key to keeping a session running smoothly, doing all the grunt work, knowing the session flow as well or better than the engineer's of note. It always seemed a natural call to me to build relationships with the assistants. They actually were very powerful--how they reacted to crisis situations could make or break a day of recording and I always hoped that knowing we had their back would help keep the lines of communication open, get us early reports of looming situations, keeping down any tendency to panic. Seems to have been the right call.
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