Showing posts with label #Producer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Producer. Show all posts

Friday, January 31, 2020

DENNIS MACKAY LEGENDARY ENGINEER & PRODUCER TALKS ABOUT THE CRAFT & ROCK HISTORY!

D E N N I S 
M A C K A Y
 ENGINEER & PRODUCER
MULTI-PLATINUM/GRAMMY AWARD WINNER
Worked with legendary music artists ...
TOMMY BOLIN ... MICK RONSON...BILLY COBHAM...STANLEY CLARKE...
JUDAS PRIEST...BRAND X...JACK BRUCE ... 
and the list goes on and on ...
Legendary guitarist & songwrter Tommy Bolin’s Teaser album was recorded at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, CA in July 1975 with additional recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York (September), and Trident Studios in London (October). It was mixed at Trident Studios in London by Dennis MacKay.
Production credits went to Tommy Bolin and Lee Kiefer except for “People People” and “Marching Powder,” which were produced by Dennis MacKay. Those two tracks were done late to fill out the album out better and required Tommy and Dennis to travel back to Electric Lady to record the material. MacKay would go on to co-produce Private Eyes with Tommy in 1976.
Private Eyes/Tommy Bolin released in 1976. After recording finished at Cherokee the album was mixed at Trident Studios in London.
MacKay demonstrated great skill in editing and mixing the material, turning seven days of rapid recording by an unrehearsed band into an iconic album. Dennis MacKay would go on to engineer or produce a remarkable range of artists including Tommy Bolin, Jeff Beck, Judas Priest, Return to Forever, Billy Cobham, Brand X, Gong, Pat Travers, Al DiMeola, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Jack Bruce, Whitney Houston and the list goes on and on ….
Mackay won a Grammy Award in 2010 for the Stanley Clarke Band Best Contemporary Jazz Album. 


DENNIS MACKAY

ENGINEER/PRODUCER
CHATTING ABOUT THE CRAFT 
& ROCK HISTORY!
on INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
with RAY SHASHO
BBS RADIO
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Contact Dennis MacKay at producerdennismackay@yahoo.com







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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

PAUL NELSON CHATS ABOUT JOHNNY WINTER AND BADASS GENERATION ON 'INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS' W/RAY SHASHO -BBS RADIO

P   A   U   L
N   E   L   S   O   N
GUITARIST-SONGWRITER-PRODUCER
with The Paul Nelson Band
JOHNNY WINTER'S PRODUCER/
& RIGHT-HAND MAN TALKS ABOUT PRESERVING JOHNNY'S LEGACY

Paul Nelson - is recognized as one of today's top guitarists/songwriters and producers not only having the distinction of being the hand-picked fellow guitarist to the legendary rock/blues icon Johnny Winter but he has toured the world over performing and or recorded alongside an endless who's who list of top artists from Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy to Slash, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, James Cotton, Joe Perry, Dr. John, Leslie West, Joe Bonamassa, Dickey Betts to Joe Walsh and more...

Nelson received a Grammy award for his work performing on and producing Winter's "Step Back" release on Mega force/Sony winning "Best Blues Album of the Year" highlighting his already long list of Grammy Nominations. As well as the BMA "Blues Music Award" for "Best Blues/Rock Album" reaching #16 on the Billboard Top 200 and staying at #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts for weeks. He is also a recipient of the Blues Foundation's KBA "Keeping the Blues Alive Award".
His music has reached millions with appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and on award winning documentaries: "Down and Dirty" The Johnny Winter Story and "Sideman: Long Road to Glory" (feat: Bonnie Raitt, Gregg Allman, Hubert Sumlin), as well as music written/performed and broadcast nationally on NBC and on multiple major album releases, books, instructional guitar columns, live Concert DVD's, and guest performances on countless recordings.

Staying at #1 on the "Hot New Releases" charts for months Nelson's latest project "Badass Generation" on Sony Records still maintains his unmistakable connection to the Blues, but it also finds the guitarist showing his many other musical dimensions fans have come expect considering him one of music's most respected and influential contemporary artists...




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PAUL NELSON 
BAND

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PAUL NELSON  exclusive interview
on INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
 W/RAY SHASHO
ON BBS RADIO
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

SUZI QUATRO 'ROCK AND ROLL HEROINE'

LEGENDARY 
ROCK AND ROLL QUEEN
S  U  Z  I    Q  U  A  T  R  O
'EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW'
 ON THE RAY SHASHO SHOW 

Suzi Quatro is an internationally renowned renaissance woman. Although most of her extraordinary achievements in the arts were celebrated outside the United States, she has left a momentous impression as the original first lady of rock ‘n’ roll.
The leather clad, bass guitar slingin,’ Motor City- rock ‘n’ roll queen- Quatro, first gained notoriety in the early 60’s playing venues around Detroit in an all-female garage rock band called 
The Pleasure Seekers. Her sister Arlene became the bands piano player and Suzi’s older sister Patti Quatro their guitarist. Patti would later become epitomized as a member for yet another all-girl rock sensation ‘Fanny’ (“Butter Boy” #29 Hit on Billboard’s Hot 100).

The Pleasure Seekers shared the limelight in those early days with future rock legends Bob Seger, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper and many other acts. In 1965, The Pleasure Seekers recorded two singles, “Never Thought You’d Leave Me” and “What a Way to Die.” In 1968, Mercury Records signed The Pleasure Seekers to a recording contract and the band began touring extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. Also that year, the band toured with Eric Burdon and The Animals.
With the music scene rapidly changing into heavier album rock format FM radio, the band quickly shifted gears. They formed a new band called ‘
Cradle’ which spotlighted the sensational vocalizations of Suzi and Nancy Quatro. Cradle became an incredible psychedelic/hard rock act that toured with groups like The Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Beck, Santana, Ten Years After, Traffic, Mountain, and numerous other bands. The band broke up in 1973.
Suzi Quatro’s vivacious performances in Cradle caught the attention of legendary British producer Mickie Most (The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, The Jeff Beck Group, Donovan, Hot Chocolate and Lulu). In 1971, Quatro moved to England permanently and signed onto Mosts’ label RAK Records.
Her first single was called, “Rolling Stone” (#1 Hit in Portugal) and featured Peter Frampton (Humble Pie) on guitars, Micky Waller (Jeff Beck Group) on drums and Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate) on back-up vocals. After modest success from her debut single, Most brought in the songwriting and production team of 
Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Quatro immediately hit the road on a UK tour supporting the bands Thin Lizzy and headliners Slade.
Suzi Quatro’s second single; “Can the Can” became a #1 Hit in Europe and Australia in 1973. Quatro followed with a string of hits, “48 Crash,” “Daytona Demon,” and “Devil Gate Drive.” Each sold over a million copies.
Quatro supported 
Alice Cooper on his ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ tour in 1975 but couldn’t duplicate the notoriety she earned in the UK and Australia. But in 1979, Suzi scored big in the U.S. with the hit, “Stumblin’ In” (#4 Hit on Billboard’s Hot100) a Chinn/ Chapman penned composition performed as a duet with Chris Norman (Smokie).
Suzi Quatro became a household name in the U.S. as ‘Leather Tuscadero’ on the hit Television sitcom, ‘Happy Days.’ Leather was the leader of an all-girl band called, ‘Leather Tuscadero and the Suedes.’ Her sister in the series was ‘Pinky Tuscadero’ a former girlfriend of ‘The Fonz.’ Garry Marshall offered her an audition after seeing a picture of Suzi on his daughter’s bedroom wall.
In 2005, Quatro was featured in a documentary film called, ‘Naked Under Leather’ illustrating her life and much-esteemed career. Also that year she recorded a tribute song, “Singing With Angels” dedicated to her lifetime idol Elvis Presley at Emerald Studios in Nashville with Presley’s original backup singers The Jordanaires. Quatro released her self-written autobiography, ‘Unzipped’ in 2007.
In 2010, Quatro was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. Quatro released her fifteenth studio album, In the Spotlight in 2011.

Suzi Quatro has sold over 50-million records and helped pave the wave for generations of women rockers. Some of the women inspired by Quatro are 
Joan Jett, The Runaways, Pat Benatar and Deborah Harry to name just a few.
Let’s hope the 
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame realizes that too.
And just think … it all began when her father gave her a 1957 Fender Precision, her first bass guitar, which she still plays today.

Recently Quatro performed at the third “Remember the Child” Dick Wagner memorial fund concert at the MotorCity Sound Board. Proceeds went to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which include Beaumont Children’s Hospital and Flint’s Hurley Children’s Hospital, providing music therapy and music instruction to hospitalized children. Wagner’s old friend Mark Farner, who rocketed to fame with Flint’s Grand Funk Railroad, headlined the roster of talent, along with Suzi Quatro and the Pleasure Seekers.

Suzi also recently finished a very successful 19 dates, thirty second tour in Australia and even sold out the Opera House. 



Suzi celebrates over 53 years of performing and eloquently states …
"I WILL RETIRE WHEN I GO ONSTAGE, SHAKE MY ASS, AND THERE IS SILENCE"

SUZI QUATRO INTERVIEWED
 ON THE RAY SHASHO SHOW-BBS RADIO

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 Andy Scott (guitar Sweet)
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 A four CD set, the first ever career-spanning anthology from the Queen of Rock N Roll 
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Visit Suzy Quatro’s official website at www.suziquatro.com 
for all the latest news and concert dates.




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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

BINKY WOMACK R&B/ROCK GUITARIST/SINGER/SONGWRITER/PRODUCER AND NEPHEW TO THE LEGENDARY BOBBY WOMACK

B I N K Y   W O M A C K  
RELEASES 'KILLER' NEW ALBUM ENTITLED WOMACK STYLE”
-INTERVIEW ON 
THE RAY SHASHO SHOW
“Womack Style” is the latest album project from Binky Womack, a member of one of the most iconic music families of all time. Nephew of music legend Bobby Womack, Binky’s new album is released through Gonzo Multimedia UK.
Binky has his own studio in Burbank, California (The Ear Hole Recording Studio) and acts as a producer to many top line artists. He also has a publishing company, Bindelari Music, which is represented by World Domination Music for the world excluding North America. Bindelari is also the vehicle for new acts such as Jae, as well as Binky’s own material.
Binky Womack Songwriter, Musician, Producer, Remixer and now Artist & Performer, as well as part of the Womack Musical dynasty.

The majority of the songs on “Womack Style” are originals by Binky Womack and with all instruments being played by him and overall production in his hands; this is truly “Womack Style” music. The musicianship is of the same high quality that we expect from any song/production from the Womack’s and Binky’s guitar work is outstanding. All tracks are available for licensing, sync and covers. Also, the track “When You’re Wrong” is being pushed by Kings of Spins. Binky will be involved in the Memorial Tour for his late uncle, Bobby Womack and his set will include favorites from Bobby’s pen as well as new material from Binky.


'WOMACK STYLE'

B
BINKY WOMACK

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BINKY WOMACK
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For more information about Binky Womack visit … www.binkywomackla.com

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And don’t forget to purchase a copy of my book entitled Check the Gs -the true story of an eclectic American family and their Wacky family business … or the second edition entitled … Wacky Shenanigans on F Street- ‘Proud to be Politically Incorrect in Washington DC’ ... available now at amazon.com. 
You’ll live it!!!

Have a great week everybody!