the most famous act you have worked with this week

[rick]

i have just mastered the new album for Engleburt Humperdinck this week !
anybody wanna one up me on that ...?

[Chris H]

........AND you've even used a smiley!

[norm]

I did not realise work was that hard to come by Rick. What did he charge you?

[rick]

come on norm you can do better then that !
i just named dropped you in the next issue of at , i was going to tell you why but i dont think i will now

but if you must know
i dropped in the finished masters to universal music this morning .. so far according to mr bank account i did it for free !
figure this though
great songs , great and i mean great singing , great mixes
what more can you ask for ....

better stage name? .. jeez he is 74 and still trading on it !

i dont actually have an Engleburt joke , its too bizzarre of a gig to get to know what to make of it

"err Rick can you drop everything and master an new album for engleburt humperdinck tommorrow..."
"are you serious"
"yes"
" ok are you serious...... really "
silence
"engleburt humperdinck you cant be serious "
"we are "
"sure why not, it will improve my stories to tell my folks at christmas time list "

it was a pleasure to do ...really

[rick]

........AND you've even used a smiley!

lets get one thing straight guys
i have been using smileys for some time , the damn forum turns my polite internet typed smilies into internet disco biscuits all by itself!
i keep looking at the hoard of moving smilie biscuits coralling next to every post i write begging for me to turn them off again , thinking there is saftey in numbers or something and all the while i am thinking it wont be long before they get spoken of in the same tones as huge padded shoulder pads
yamaha DX7s and Delvine Delaney

[Chinagraf]

I had a coffee with Paul the other day and he was telling me about it. It sounds like he had a lot of fun.

[rick]

He must have
one of his emails is titled " the humper"

[Drumstruck]

i have just mastered the new album for Engleburt Humperdinck this week !
anybody wanna one up me on that ...?

I'm not worthy


I'm playing drums for someone who knows someone who once worked with Prince......

[Thirteen]

I got to be keyboard tech for Burt Bacharach for a couple of days a while back....

[stosostu]

I once lent Chubby Checker's guitar player my FenderTwin whilst I fixed his....................

[irecord]

This is kinda relevant because he's going to be singing at the AFL grand final on Saturday so I'm not just gratuitously name dropping. When I was working as a radio tech a few years ago and I was hanging out with Lionel Richie in a production studio while we were waiting to do the usual round of pre-recorded interviews with other stations, just talking about music and I told him that my wife is a jazz singer and sings one of his songs, Miss Celia's blues (from the movie The Colour Purple). He's really interested (just being polite I guess) because not many people know he wrote it, so I suggest he call her at home just for a laugh. How suprised do you think my wife is when she picks up the phone, still in her PJs and he says "Hi it's Lionel Richie here, I believe you sing one of my songs" Anyway they had a bit of a yarn and I thought it was pretty funny until someone comes in with a really cringeworthy version of Easy that I had sung on our Christmas staff CD with the in house station band and plays it to him. I never want to hear that song again....

[norm]

OK, OK. I take it all back, I was thinking Hey this guy is way older than me ( and I am a bit fossilised) he is not even a baby boomer and he is still out there pumping the vocal chords and banking the cash. Wonder if he still has his own hair? Its not a gerriatric/oldsymers album is it? you know the one song sung 13 times because you forgot you allready did that one by the time you finished the first track? Regards Norm

[David W]

This is kinda relevant because he's going to be singing at the AFL grand final on Saturday so I'm not just gratuitously name dropping. When I was working as a radio tech a few years ago and I was hanging out with Lionel Richie in a production studio while we were waiting to do the usual round of pre-recorded interviews with other stations, just talking about music and I told him that my wife is a jazz singer and sings one of his songs, Miss Celia's blues (from the movie The Colour Purple). He's really interested (just being polite I guess) because not many people know he wrote it, so I suggest he call her at home just for a laugh. How suprised do you think my wife is when she picks up the phone, still in her PJs and he says "Hi it's Lionel Richie here, I believe you sing one of my songs" Anyway they had a bit of a yarn and I thought it was pretty funny until someone comes in with a really cringeworthy version of Easy that I had sung on our Christmas staff CD with the in house station band and plays it to him. I never want to hear that song again....

You know that reminds me of a story of a victorian cricketer Darren Berry who after a rare state match which Shane Warne played.

Darren was driving home after the game and got a call from Warne to meet up for a drink at his hotel. Darren had prommised his wife to come home to watch Gladiator with the family but reluctently accepted the offer. After a few drinks Warne invited him up to his room which took some serious pursuading as you could imagine knowing Warnes history.

But again he accepted. As by now Darren was quite anxious as to the grilling he would get from him wife when theres a knock at the door. Warne says "can you get that". So apon opening the door who should be standing there other than Russtle Crow. Darren says I should be a home watching your movie. Luckly Russtle was kind enough to ring Darrens wife and apologise and all was accepted.

[David W]

Rick.

Don't even bother with the name dropping untill you can say Nana Mouskouri

[Alastair Reynolds]

My 5 year old Daughter has a good one, in the radio world, at an Outside Broadcast I did from Hamilton Island Race Week.
That being Russel Crowes neighbor at the finger wharf who has that "Gold Microphone"
Gotta get them learning to panel at an early age...

[Chinagraf]

Bet that gold mic sounds awesome on guitar cabs.

[Mitch Kenny]

Greyson Chance.

Link for the those of you who have not been watching Ellen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDlC7YV5is

[Alastair Reynolds]

It's a Sennheiser MD 422 we had made in 1994 for JL's 40 Anniversary,It does sound nice, but the really nice one was the 50th Annniversary special I had Neumann do in 2002 . A Gold TLM 103, Serial Number is JL0001 with Gold Cradle.The "wank" continued when we did a gold Klotz DC-2 "Signature Model " Console when I built the new station in 2005.Ah the things you can do without budget limitations and All this years before "King Kyle" was a star.

My Hand is now "off it"

[rob]

I rebuilt an AWA G54639 for Garth Porter this week ... does that count?

[jhol]

hey
i had a thought.
fame surely depends on time an location right? constantly fluctuating.

well, its grand final week, and im in sydney.

i have had the good fortune of doing various NRL functions this week, including short stabs for walk ons. which means i get to be on stage at the same time as various NRL players and officials and had the pleasure of listening to them for a few hours. It was refreshing to hear all the positive stories about what NRL players get up to in their spare time and i was delighted to see them recognised and rewarded for it.

[Dallas]

Not as good as Englebert, but I did mix FOH for one of the incarnations of the Bachelors a couple of months ago...

[Damien]

i had james brown push his gut into my back so i would get off his stage.... and i had alice cooper kick me in the bum as i was to slow on stage (i was one of the clowns at the start of the show with a slingshot and ping pong balls....)

this week... nuttin..

[Drumstruck]

Don't look like no-one worked wit no-one this week.....

[TimS]

I recorded Pennywise, Sum 41 and Bowling for Soup at LP Big Top 2 yrs ago (2 days after I had my gall bladder removed!)
Closest famous folk I've recorded - EVER!!!

[rick]

i did the angus stone single thats going to win all the arias this year
and just did the bagraiders new album thats going to win them all next year:)

[Damien]

I'm doing the paperwork for the next leo sayer tour.

[Chris H]

........been a very quiet two weeks here but for the recollection of past moments in my audio meanderings there are desk tapes for Jeff Baxter, Randy Newman, live recording for Rory Mcleod for the OS contingent and for those of Oz ancestory who are now active OS there are Cd's etc Jay Atwill who is playing in Coral Egan's band in Canada and also doing his own thing; Butterfly Boucher when she was in Eat the Menu / Mercy Bell, she now plays bass for Sarah Mclachlan and has a solo career and a band project Elle Macho. Locals: Live CD projects for Chain, Lobby Loyd, Kev Borich, Collards Greens and Gravy, Geoff Lang, Geoff Atchison, Mick Rudd & Bill Putt/Spectrum/Ariel. Micheal Paynter.........quite a few others.
As a guit player...well a few highlights ...opening for LRB,and Mondo Rock and playing in the Aust Pops Orchestra New Years Eve Series Concerts for a few years in a row including when the cyber world as we knew it was going to end 2000 ha ha!
Most memorable: .....Jeff Baxter- Rocket Scientist
Most best friend: Butterfly Boucher.....she's my son's Godmother. Life's good when music is a part of it!

[Drumstruck]

i have just mastered the new album for Engleburt Humperdinck this week !
anybody wanna one up me on that ...?

Well, well, well - I see that Engleburt is doing a tour here shortly - just in time for the new album to be released .... and it's nearly christmas.... am I being too cynical?

[rick]

all of that and more .. jesus he is 74 years old !
and he is having a career bounceback .. i hope i am still walking around at 74 years old !

but if your wondering his son lives in australia i believe

[waitup]

Doing a tube screamer type overdrive for Ryan from Scruffs/Wake Ups this week... closest to fame I've got going on this week.