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17th December 2006
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| Gear maniac  Joined: May 2003 Location: Miami
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Thread Starter |  Record Plant Remote
Where is Ryan Hewitt? Where the hell is Dave Swope?!?  |
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17th December 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: May 2003 Location: Miami
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Thread Starter | Iron-On Patch  |
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17th December 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: May 2003 Location: Miami
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Thread Starter |  Images From the Private Collection  |
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17th December 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: May 2003 Location: Miami
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Thread Starter |  Outside 321 W. 44th Street  |
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17th December 2006
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| Gear maniac Joined: May 2003 Location: Miami
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Thread Starter | Jacket Pin  |
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17th December 2006
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| Super Moderator  Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Ah, very cool... I see you have a Westcoast Record Planet postcard in there with the Eastcoast stuff.
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17th December 2006
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| one man, ONE mic pre Joined: Jan 2004 Location: New York
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the white truck in the first photo is now Kooster's Record Plant Remote. the black (peterbuilt) truck is Dave Hewitt's now.
__________________ William Wittman Producer/Engineer (Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, The Fixx, The Outfield...) prorecordingworkshop.lefora.com thewombforums.com |
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17th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Kooster and associates did an awesome job upgrading that vehicle. Yes, the black truck was Dave's truck for many years... I believe the tractor is all that is left from the black truck. That tractor pulled the Silver Studio trailer. | |
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18th December 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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Here I am in LA! Swope is at Sony Studios in NYC. Great pix... Seen some of those in my father's archives as well... He's still got the RPNY brown satin jacket.. The "white truck" as such does belong to kooster, though you'd never recorgnize it, since everything but the box has been replaced. Kind of like the "renovation" clause in LA, wherein if you keep one wall from a house, it's considered a renovation, even if you build a mansion around it. Kooster added like 10 feet to the box, a new Volvo chassis, air conditioning, bins... etc etc... a whole new thing... more the size of the black truck at this point. The black truck crashed on an icy day in New Hope, PA, just 5 miles from our house. We salvaged the chassis and turned it into a tractor to pull the new silver trailer. Dad retired that thing a few years ago and got a new Peterbilt tractor. Ironically, his new small digital truck is white! Ryan Hewitt |
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18th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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He's something I pulled out of my audio remote truck file... Here's the RPR westcoast brochure before the postcard Blackie posted... |
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18th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Inside Left ...
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18th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Inside right panel...
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18th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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...And, now for the back cover...
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18th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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I'm really not doing any of these photos justice -- It will have to do for now. The Black Truck circa 1979... |
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18th December 2006
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Wilmore, KY
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Great stuff guys!  Keep it coming...
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18th December 2006
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2005 Location: New York Friggin' City
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Now Ryan, you weren't even born when that first pic was taken, were you? Best regards, Jim |
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19th December 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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Jim- Nope! Not even a thought! But I can remember the last one like it was yesterday. 4th grade. 1984. I had that flyer as a cover for my notebook at school forever! I wish that I still had a copy of that for my grownup archives... Ryan Quote:
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19th December 2006
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Hey Ryan, I may have an extra copy for you! Quote:
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24th December 2006
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Very cool pictures and stories. I'd like to order the client upgrade, I'll start with 16 channels of high quality, higher paying clients with the talent option. |
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11th February 2007
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| Gear nut  Joined: Jan 2007
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| RPS NY Trucks inside
Here are a couple of pics of the old Record Plant NY Black and White Trucks, yes, that's David Hewitt with hair, and no, I'm not going to tell the embarrassing story about what Ryan used to call his Tonka truck as a toddler.
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12th February 2007
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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I love the sound of that API desk. A phat and full bodied sound for sure. Okay dB, I'll bite --What did Ryan call his Tonka toy truck? PM me if you don't want to post it on this thread. |
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12th February 2007
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| Gear nut Joined: Jan 2007
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| It would only get "*****'d" anyway
Just can't bring myself to embarrass him in a public forum on a day when one of my old Fredonia interns won the Grammy for best engineered album. I'll PM you.
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16th February 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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i called it a "fruck" if my dad remembers correctly! What year is that black truck picture from DB?? no acoustic treatments, pultecs in the rack! must have been brand new! Great to see you here! PM me your info... Ryan |
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16th February 2007
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| one man, ONE mic pre Joined: Jan 2004 Location: New York
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We had that API (AFTER the crash) for a time at what was then Cy Curnin's studio (from The Fixx) that we put together to make their Ink record. It took some major klugdging to keep it working, but it sounded, well, like any API. great. I don't think it was supposed to be "salvageable", technically. anyway, see that little blue box on top of the rack up above Dave's head (in the photo upper left near 11 o'clock)? that's a little Record Plant "lunchbox" rack of 4 RPS customised Quad Eight Gates. and I want to sell them if somebody wants them! |
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16th February 2007
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| Gear Head Joined: Feb 2006
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Please excuse the drool...
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16th February 2007
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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Awesome dude, Wasn't the Fixx's studio originally Kevin Kelly's (old place called) Recording Workshop? ...then it turn into Avalon for a bit. Quote:
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17th February 2007
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| Gear nut Joined: Jan 2007
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| Good eyes, folks!
Ryan, the day your dad was giving me a ride home from work in his old VW bug telling me about your "Dum Fruck" instead of "Dump Truck", and your mom's reaction to hearing you say it over and over; well, I laughed 'till my sides hurt. The picture above is from the very first Black Truck gig at Pine Knob in 1978 (I don't remember who the band was, Phil probably would), that's a White Truck MCI 114 24trk. in the foreground. The truck arrived at the gig on a tow truck, after being driven most of the way by a "carnie" named Brewster: "minor" engine problem: |
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17th February 2007
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| Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2002 Location: NYC
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I heard a story about the Record plant white truck getting towed to a gig at the Bottom line right when Fedco was there getting towed out of a gig there... Or visa versa. Is there any truth to this story? |
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17th February 2007
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| Gear nut Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 76
| It's only a flesh wound
Steve, we only had a tarp on the front of the box (another story entirely involving the late Jon Mathias, a Stone's video shoot, a Central Park Transverse, and not having enough "head room"), but yes we showed up at the Bottom Line just as they were getting towed out of the parking spot. Here's a shot of the old White Truck DeMedio (my favorite console; UREI 1108's, UTC's, and API 325's):
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27th March 2007
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| Gear nut Joined: Jan 2007
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| Young William Wittman
Found this picture that proves William was young once, but shorter than the average Agnello.
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