George Harrison: Ever the Gentleman
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Mastering engineer Steve Hoffman shared this story over on his board earlier today. I thought it well worth reproducing here:
------------------------------Why I miss George Harrison, Part V: George and the Traveling Wilburys CD mastering Sometimes the simple things in life mean a lot. Kevin Gray and I were reminiscing today about the good old days at Future Disc Systems mastering house that has since closed up (owner Steve Hall and wife Laura are moving to Oregon). I did many DCC CD's and LP's there and Steve Hall and Gary Rice were MCA Recording Studio engineers who went out on their own to form the company back in 1986. I worked on most of the Ray Charles albums there plus "Love Is The Thing" LP and Gold CD by Nat "King" Cole and a ton of other stuff. Great, fun place to do mastering. If you've followed my work in the press over the years, Steve Hall's room at Future Disc was where I always had my press photos and CNN and Fox news video segments shot; (great looking room). Steve always stopped work in there and let us come in and shoot. Once Ice-T and I had an hour long conversation in there about Nat Cole while the pictures were being taken, heh.At any rate, when the Traveling Wilburys first album was being mastered at Future Disc, Laura was out front when some of the band came in for some "hands-on" mastering time with Steve.Tom Petty comes in first. He yells at Laura: "Where is the session?" Laura points to the studio door. He walks in.10 minutes later, Jeff Lynne walks in. He snaps at Laura: "Where is the session?"Laura points to the studio door. He walks right in.15 minutes later George Harrison walks in. He walks right over to Laura, shakes her hand and says: "Hi, I'm George."Laura stammers: "Y-Yes, I know. I'm Laura".George smiles and says: "Laura, can you please show me where the Traveling Wilburys mastering session is?"Laura gets up and walks him into the studio.That is something she said she would never forget as long as she lived; not the fact that she had met George (although that was nice) but that George was a true gentleman.Another (small, I admit) reason why I miss him.
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Mastering engineer Steve Hoffman shared this story over on his board earlier today. I thought it well worth reproducing here:
------------------------------Why I miss George Harrison, Part V: George and the Traveling Wilburys CD mastering Sometimes the simple things in life mean a lot. Kevin Gray and I were reminiscing today about the good old days at Future Disc Systems mastering house that has since closed up (owner Steve Hall and wife Laura are moving to Oregon). I did many DCC CD's and LP's there and Steve Hall and Gary Rice were MCA Recording Studio engineers who went out on their own to form the company back in 1986. I worked on most of the Ray Charles albums there plus "Love Is The Thing" LP and Gold CD by Nat "King" Cole and a ton of other stuff. Great, fun place to do mastering. If you've followed my work in the press over the years, Steve Hall's room at Future Disc was where I always had my press photos and CNN and Fox news video segments shot; (great looking room). Steve always stopped work in there and let us come in and shoot. Once Ice-T and I had an hour long conversation in there about Nat Cole while the pictures were being taken, heh.At any rate, when the Traveling Wilburys first album was being mastered at Future Disc, Laura was out front when some of the band came in for some "hands-on" mastering time with Steve.Tom Petty comes in first. He yells at Laura: "Where is the session?" Laura points to the studio door. He walks in.10 minutes later, Jeff Lynne walks in. He snaps at Laura: "Where is the session?"Laura points to the studio door. He walks right in.15 minutes later George Harrison walks in. He walks right over to Laura, shakes her hand and says: "Hi, I'm George."Laura stammers: "Y-Yes, I know. I'm Laura".George smiles and says: "Laura, can you please show me where the Traveling Wilburys mastering session is?"Laura gets up and walks him into the studio.That is something she said she would never forget as long as she lived; not the fact that she had met George (although that was nice) but that George was a true gentleman.Another (small, I admit) reason why I miss him.
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