The Story.

The Story. 

     Self portrait circa 1987 or is that 57.

After a good 10 year run of performing and touring with my band during the last moments of the 80's something unusual happened to me. I’m not sure what caused it but I began to experience what I can only describe as a bad case of stage fright. Most performers feel “that thing” before they go on stage and for most it is the gas that fuels the performance - but for me it became unmanageable.  I left performing live and retreated to the controlled and safe world of the recording studio.  

In my studio I built a real recording palace, where musicians could be kings or queens, sometimes they were both. During the next decade I worked in my studios with some of the most talented people on the planet and learned so much about music, creativity, and myself.

In between recording sessions, after and before, I worked in earnest on my own tunes, but mostly I poured myself into the many projects that were before me.

I was one of the last producers at my studio to exclusively use the analog tape machine for my work, maybe to the point of novelty.  And though I loved that analog sound, the economics of running a recording studio dictated and the romance of those big 2 inch tape reels and my beloved MCI tape recorder had had it’s day. I finally gave in transferred most of my 2 inch analog master tapes tracks to digital and carried on.

In that shift from analog to digital somehow my own work vanished. Maybe my tracks are still there somewhere in the hundreds of reels and hard drives but I’ll be dammed if I could find them. The masters of my finished tunes had vanished, they were gone.


Thankfully I had shared the songs with friends over the the years on mixed tapes and random CD’s. By collecting and selecting the best rough mixes and early versions along with some of the final mixes I have been able to put together a snapshot of the work that I am proud of.  

I will be releasing a free download of the album one tune at a time, with a few  recollections about the recording sessions and  some of the amazing people and stories that surround them.

I’ve had many good friends and supporters gently pushing me to release these songs and I thank them for that. Mostly, I’m glad someone wants to hear them and I’m glad they are still around to be heard.

Lonesome.
AKA Glen Marshall,
02/03/2012.
Suggested Listening : Free Download -  Creeping Spiders