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Lets see...a few...
Playing on the Rolling Stones "Metamorphasis" rekkid with Andrew Oldham is one. What was really a highlight was just hearing all the banter in the studio on the tapes, which they let run all the time. Woulda been nicer if my name was on therecord but...
I worked for most of a year with Sly Stone. Much of which was total waste of time aside from making some money. But when he was on it, like the day he started singing "Family Affair", he taught me what star power level of talent sounds like. Kinda kills me that huge guy with amazing talent like Sly is the humblest person on the planet.....then you have these knuckleheads show up at sessions with big attitudes that can't find 1.
Recording the truly unbelievable Blues Brother's Horns with Blue Lou Marini, Al Rubin, Birch Johnson, and on one occassion the amazing Ronnie cuber on bari. One of those records, with Eddie King, won a Handy Award. A nice highlight.
My sister, Christine Ohlman's new CD has a duet with Dion Dimucci (Runaround Sue, The Wanderer, Abraham Martin and John.) There is just something so special when an iconic artist is on YOUR studio monitors.
I have a couple of gold and platinums, but to be honest they tend to be for music that doesn't move me nearly so much as some of the great gospel performances that have happened in my place over the years.
But as several have pointed out, the REAL highlight is when you realize that you are making a living recording music. The fact that I can get up in the morning and stumble across my parking lot with a cup of coffee into a RECORDING STUDIO is really the only highlight and blessing that I will really ever need.
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