Jul 14, 2021
This episode, Chris compares two versions of one of his songs before the twins jump down a rabbit hole - talking life at 58, songwriting, recording studio shenenigans, the absurdity of drinking while tripping - and so much more.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "Something I Remember" by Chris Yale - Original Reflector version
4:11 - Greetings and about the song
5:50 - "Something I Remember" by Chris Yale - from the album, "Well Enough Alone"
9:06 - Cutting the baby in half / Old Testament
10:01 - Happy birthday to us - thoughts on 58 / Peter Murphy / "Deep"
11:19 - Living in the now / Wiser? / Demons / Innocuous Nigel / Is Rog smart? / The new cash registers
13:35 - On songwriting / Writing fast / Ideas sometimes just show up
14:36 - Gordon Lightfoot documentary / More about Lightfoot
15:39 - More about songwriting
16:15 - Recording studio experiences / Mystic Sound / Steve Fuji / Paramount / Roger Dollarhide / Ian Whitcomb / Lee Allen / Big Jay McNeely / Ronnie Barron
18:12 - More about Dollarhide / Kepex / Paul Rothchild / Paramount tape vault / Master tapes / Old tapes
20:16 - Echo Sound / Lee Newman / Leon Russell / Paradise Records / Paid in weed / Skyline Studios Topanga Canyon
20:16 - People think Chris is a stoner / "Flower" / "Flowers for Algernon" / Ian Talcroft / Sound Image North Hollywood / Glen Matisoff / Peder Rudling / Soldano Amplifier / Tripping at A&M Studios / Berlin video shoot on Soul Train sound stage
24:43 - The absurdity of drinking while tripping or tweaking
25:21 - Hamster International Records / KROQ / EFX Studios
26:12 - Are we who we thought we would be?
27:20 - Chris knows how Rog is
27:45 - More Lightfoot
28:26 - Little Free Libraries / Bobby Rydell autobiography / Tommy Steele / Dion is not dead
32:31 - "The Tao of Pooh" & "The Te of Piglet" / Taosim
34:03 - "Bosch" / Titus Welliver / Michael Connelly
35:08 - "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk / Neil Diamond / "Loudermilk"