Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

I worked with Archie (Carroll O’Conner) on a play he wrote in a San Francisco Theater.  I even got to meet Edith (Jean Stapleton)

when she came to visit and see the play.  Carroll was an amazingly talented guy and a very gracious guy to work with.  He knew exactly

how he wanted things to go and that is how we did it (or elseJ).  Keith Richards was trying to buy the house next door to Carroll and he out bid him and bought the house because he didn’t want ant “Stones” in his neighborhood.  He lost a son to drug addiction and was very “anti-drug” as one might be after such a tragedy. I was the audio engineer (or sound designer as they called it but I hate that title because of all the awful untalented

union guys who boast that title).  A real bonus for me was working with Joe Sherman (Ramblin Rose and other classic hits) who wrote a tremendous soundtrack for the play.  All in the Family is a classic but unfortunately the “politically correct Nazis” wouldn’t allow it or anything like it today because they have lost their since of humor.  It’s sad really.

 

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