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11-03-2009 03:57 AM ET (US)
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Sign was from Scott Rovner which came by way of Jerry I believe. And Bill, the guy that that is me is the Jewish one! I think you can tell! Marty Scott, OMG! For all of you who don't know this Marty gave me a start in the business when he hired me to make a few records for him for the fledgling Paradox Records label which was distributed through Polygram. Marty had probably the biggest independent record business around, a true record man from the good old days of cut outs and imports and warehouses full of titles. GEM Records I recall - GEMarty. I think his first titles were on Big Camp Records and were our camp records we got in the winter. I owe Marty for hiring a very inexperienced producer and trusting him.
Strange wonderful day in the studio tomorrow - I am producing Santana's new album and we are doing a cover of Light My Fire with Chester (seen in that video) singing - its for Guitar Hero game. Their keyboard player cannot attend. I am going to play LMF with Santana, at Sunset Sound (where the Doors recorded the song originally) and will definitely flash back to WCP, spinning the song in '67 as Swerdlick's trusty engineer, watching the Elektra logo go around and around, looking out over the green fields of Camp with the song blaring from the loudspeaker during a hot and muggy rest period...Kerouac would say, we know time...
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