My daughter is finishing up her last semester at Belmont University in
Nashville. She's been really fortunate; went through the undergrad
program in 3 years, and currently is working at the on-campus studios
(Russ Berger designs), teaches at RCA Studio B, and works at Ocean Way.
Oh, and she plays rock & roll bass, and is carrying a full course load
too. I'm way jealous.

So she calls me the other day about the session she just finished
helping with; it was a "live broadcast recording" (they recorded to a
Masterlink; they'll broadcast it on Memorial Day on Sirius Radio) with
a studio audience in the main room at Ocean Way.

She had a great time; she liked the producer (Steve Marcantonio) a lot,
got to set up, run the Masterlink in the control room during the live
mix, and then break down. Perfect. Then she tells me this (in her
words, from her blog of the day):

"Once the magic was over, the CDs burned, the patches pulled, the
people and the food gone, all that was left was to tear down the
tracking room. I like that part of the day, I really do. It's kind of
like the cool-down after a workout - relaxing, reflective, a
recognition of an accomplishment made.

It was then that I made some comment about Sweet Home Alabama being one
of the cover songs they'd done.

"Do you know who this was?" a suddenly serious member of Marcantonio's
entourage asked of me.

Well, yeah, they said they were Johnny & Donnie Van Zant. ...Right?

....What?

I just recorded Lynyrd Skynyrd."

Stink. She has all the fun.

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Bob Singleton
Singleton Productions, Inc.
http://singletonproductions.com