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HOME COOKIN'! Recording Tips ForThe Semi-Pro

Imagine this: You are a musician working in a small club. Unknown to you, a record company exec who missed his plane decided to drop in for a drink while he waits for the next flight out of town. Your playing knocks him out; when he hears you sing an original tune, his palms get sweaty and his knees start to knock.

July 1, 1979
Allen Hester

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HOME COOKIN'! Recording Tips ForThe Semi-Pro

Allen Hester

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Imagine this: You are a musician working in a small club. Unknown to you, a record company exec who missed his plane decided to drop in for a drink while he waits for the next flight out of town. Your playing knocks him out; when he hears you sing an original tune, his palms get sweaty and his knees start to knock. You're IT. A week later you're at the Record Plant in L.A. with the finest engineers and studio miisicians in the world backing you up. Move it on over, Ace, here comes the Kid!

Too bad, it's only a dream for most people. The big shots don't haunt the little out-of-the-way bars, and studio time is so damn expensive, you have to be successful to afford it in the first place. Catch-22.

But you listen to the radio and you think, "Hell, I can do that. I'm just as sexy as he is, for crissake. If I could only get in the studio ..."

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