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...Actually, Allen didn't "write" any books; he dictated them into his ever-handy micro tape recorder. After 50 years in show business, as an author and polemicist, Steve was still doing radio - still hosting a talk show, even when no one else was talking and his only audience was a stenographer. He became a relic of his time, a bespectacled version of a '56 Coupe de Ville. It took his death to remind people that, like that old Caddy, Steverino was a classic...
...that can send shivers down the spine. Look carefully to behold the soft, silver metals and finely knit wires, I was told. Don't get too close though, don't touch. You wouldn't want to disrupt its vibe. The Neumann did not err in translating our voices to tape, day in and day out. And there were many days, endless days during "overdub hell," as our producer and engineer Matthew Ellard commonly refers...
...door. Sometimes I found notes in my mailbox. Sometimes I was given toys with company logos. And everywhere I went on campus, posters promising a wonderful I-banking/consulting life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably appear guiding me along my dream-path...
Making a rock 'n' roll album is a bit like running a road-race naked. For one, endurance is a must: the 18 days, 12 to 14 hours a day, take their toll on both body and spirit. Furthermore, one is constantly exposed. Every inch of tape is previewed, reviewed, whistled at and at times, rejected. It is, essentially, a nudie marathon. Of course, in more literal terms, studio time amounts to standing around, mostly clothed, playing and listening to minute musical parts over and over again. Not quite as glamorous as a nudie-marathon, you say? Settle down...
...first notes I played with the tape rolling at Fort Apache Studios were not good ones. I plucked at my bass as it I'd never seen it before. My hand had fallen asleep...