Working on a Roger Nichols Obit, Then Sly Stewart Died, Then Brian And....
now stopped by inanimate object
I was working on a Roger Nichols obit. He wrote "We've Only Just Begun" for The Carpenters and so much more. The album on the left was produced by Tommy LiPuma, arrangements by Marty Paich among others, engineered by Larry Levine and Henry Lewy, Bruce Botnick involved along with Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks. Was going to be interesting.
Then Sly Stone died. So I started writing him into it. Such an interesting guy. Aside from all that everyone knows about The Family Stone he produced The Beau Brummel's early recordings. Caught a whiff of Beatles.
Then Brian Wilson. Not unexpected but still...so I added that to the obit story and of course I repeated in it that I'd fixed Brian's turntable. Wouldn't you?
But before I could assemble all of this my on the wall heat and hot water system broke and thank goodness it's summertime and not winter but it must be fixed and to do that the utility room must be cleared out like now.
It contains a Stillpoints rack, a Revox A-700, lots of other gear and records, more old records. I have to move all of it out now So that's today and some of tomorrow.
So if you're wondering why I've yet to mark the passing of these legends, that's why. I'm marking the passing of my on the wall boiler. I don't mean to make a joke of these human deaths, but if you're a Boomer, get ready because we've only just begun.
This costing $25,000. I could have bought a decent phono cartridge for that kind of money...
And while I'm at it: how do you like the carousel feature at the top of the page? You can move through it and select a story to read...
