OT: RE: Brainboost.com

[John Esak]

Well, this took a strange turn for a comment about Brainboost... Honestly, I
don't know where they got that reference for the LP from... but it was
pretty neat to see it there.

I was the head tech engineer for Sigma Sound in NYC. (during the late 70's)
We did hit after hit of terrible disco music... but all the biggest "stars"
were making disco tracks and bringing them directly to Studio 54 which was
on the same block as Sigma. You mention River Deep.. I got to record Ashford
& Simpson... who wrote Aint No Mountain High Enough and tons of others.
Sigma did one hell of a lot of gold records during the 70's and 80's... they
lined the walls. Many, many stories to tell.  Before Sigma and all the big
names, I worked at a small studio in Tampa, FL, Atlantis, where I recorded
The Outlaws for several months among others. Before that I designed and
built SYCOM at USF... before that I was an embryo playing with
Wollensacks... :-)

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Vermillion [mailto:fp at wjv.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:53 PM
> To: John Esak
> Cc: filePro mailing list
> Subject: Re: Brainboost.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:38:10PM -0400, John Esak thus spoke:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bill
> > > Vermillion
> > > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:04 AM
> > > To: filePro Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: Brainboost.com
>
> > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:54:35PM -0400, John Esak thus spoke:
> > > > Hell yes... and Bob Stockler just showed me what "Who is John
> > > Esak?"  I had
> > > > not tried that... this thing found stuff Google has NO idea about!
>
> > > So what the story on the Nexus LP.  Same John Esak??
>
> > Yeah, it's actually me... an album one of the bands I was in
> > put out... we disbanded shortly after the release and didn't
> > try to push it out there... It wouldn't have flown anyway...
> > :-) Good music, though... I may still have a couple copies
> > laying around somewhere. It has since all been digitized...
>
> > Maybe I'll find one and send it to you.. You are one person I
> > would guess still has a turntable... (and knows what a stylus
> > is...) :-)
>
> One turntable needs a new belt and I have to measure it as the
> original is long gone.
>
> I'm about to get a new TT as I do have many things that need to get
> transfered and last rough estimated was about 6000 LPs, 10000 45s,
> and 3000 78s.
>
> I recalled that you played drums and had a kit set up at your house
> when I was there at the second Guru conference.
>
> ISTR that you were also a recording engineer in NYC at one time.
> Correct?  If so where.  A local FP user from the past used to
> engineer at Apostolic studios - so called because they were the
> first 12-track studio in NY.  They did some rather strange artists
> there, and he also cut a couple of Spanky and our Gang LPs.
>
> I still keep up my NARAS membership but stopped voting the Grammys
> a few years ago.
>
> Music become addictive and the last recording session I was at - as
> a guest - was in Novmeber - when a group re-created a 1903 Edison
> Cylinder session to make a cylinder as a birthday present for
> an 80 year old Dixieland musician.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com