OT: RE: Brainboost.com

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:47:09PM -0400, John Esak thus spoke:

> 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. 

That group hadn't entered my mind for years.  It's interesting to
see what groups stay around and become legends, and while other
that looked like they were headed that way just seem to vaporize.

> 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.

Now Sigman was a big name in the recording business.

And I remember appearing on stage with the Outlaws many times in
Orlando back when they were just another Fl rock band. Atlantis
rings a faint bell. I only did work in one Tampa stuido one time,
and that for a commercial for D'world on the Epcot opening.

After we got the 3rd verson of BeeJay open [a world class facilty
- the one with the egg in the Billboard ads] that took all my
time. Criteria in Miami and BeeJay in Orlando were the the only
two SPARS studios in the state. The only the Outlaws came by
there was in the early '80s and I think we Andy or Dana mixed
something for MTV.

> Before that I designed and
> built SYCOM at USF... before that I was an embryo playing with
> Wollensacks... :-)

I have an old Wollensack that I need to restore.  

In the '80s it was a common thing for recording engineers to
migrate to computing.  

Bill
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