| Some Good Years was recorded
using a drum machine by Bob and Mary Jo, and Cecil Duke. The song was complete except for
two things ... we brought it to Oceanside Studio and John put the drums on and finally at
Studio 56 in Hollywood, Susan, Paul and John were added to the backgrounds. |
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We had gone through two other bass players before Robby. We knew
the search was over at the first rehearsal with Robby when he pulled out a sunburst
Rickenbacker bass. From that very first day we have never had to tell Robby what to play
... he was extremely intuitive as to what would work on these songs. |
| Peter Holsapple, who I (Bob) remember thinking had a very cool
name when I met him, was brilliant in the studio. The way he could adapt a mandolin to
this music was really amazing. |
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Vicki Peterson appears courtesy of old times (and not because she
was a member of our favorite "girl" band, The Bangles ... although it doesn't
hurt to have famous people sing on your recordings). Vicki and her sister, Debbie, used to
come to our shows when we were playing the "club" scene in L.A. back when they
were cutting their teeth in the world of rock 'n roll themselves. She lends a great voice
to Under The Gun. |
| Doug Sax is a very positive person, full of life and energy. His
comments during the mastering session were uplifting (i.e., "This I like, This I
like!", "You've got voices, melodies, good lyrics!"). His extremely
"up" attitude transferred into his work ... Global
sounded the best when it left his hands. |
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Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park is a great studio. It had a pool
table, basketball court, great lounge and kitchen, great equipment and great people ...
Rumbo is owned by The Captain and Tenille who have been very supportive of our endeavor. |
| We also recorded Christmastime at Rumbo ... it was during
a heat wave in August. We decorated the entire studio with Christmas lights, a Christmas
tree, presents and children ... the whole works ... turned up the air conditioning and it
was a great day. If all goes well, Christmastime should have it's debut during
the 2000 holiday season. Christmastime was originally slated to be on Global. |
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The engineer on She Said To Me
was Booker T. Jones, III. Booker T. is the son of Booker T. of Booker T and the MG's fame
(Time is Tight - one of the best instrumental hits ever). |
| Burton Averre was someone Boz brought in and what a great
guitarist. Burton played lead with the Knack (M.M.M.My Sharona). |
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John Stamos is a friend of John's. He came down to Rumbo one day
and we knew he was coming to play congas on Cross That Line.
So John walks into tons of fans and kids and he handled it all great ... and his conga
playing was excellent. You can really hear John's conga part in the instrumental section
of Cross That Line. |
| The Global sessions shut down
before the horns could be recorded on I Be Low. |
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Three songs didn't make the cut and are not on Global. Freefall, Shine and Maybe
It's You. Paul's the lead vocalist on Freefall (a rare co-write by Bob and
Barry). Shine was also sung by Paul and Maybe It's You is another Bob
lead vocal. |
| At one point we were going to call ourselves The Orphans
since our parents had died and release Global under that
name. |
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Jim spent over a year trying to convince Bob to release this CD.
He was inspired by the writings of Napoleon Hill (The Science of Personal Achievement)
and Brian Tracy (The Psychology of Achievement) and was convinced this should
happen. He designed the CD cover, thought of the names Global
and Robin Records and in essence was the
inspiration behind the whole thing. |
| I (Bob) was overdubbing a synthesizer part on Far Away. Just Boz and I were in the booth and I was
going to have a big boomy bottomy synthesizer line double the guitar line of the intro and
just before the instrumental. Susan walks into the booth waving her hands saying
"Absolutely not! No way! That can't go there!". Boz and I just looked at each
other and went on to something else. We never did record the part. |
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There's a wave crashing on to the shore in Some Good Years. |
| We'd still like to have Bonnie Raitt overdub slide guitar on Cross That Line. Actually, at one point, we wanted to
have Bonnie Raitt record Cross That Line. |
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John and Paul's vocal responses in the choruses of I Be Low remind us of Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz for
some reason (you can almost hear Ricky singing "Oh so, so low"). |
| Far Away was written in less
than an hour as I (Bob) stood staring out my front door at an unusual L.A. thunder,
lightening and rain storm. |
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Christmastime took 11 years to write. |
| Sector Nine is a space alien character of John's. It's
hilarious and there is an interview with Sector Nine available. We may put the
audio on the website. John is very, very funny as Sector Nine. |
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We recorded real gunshots (taken from a sound effects CD) to
accompany the drum rolls into the instrumental in Under The
Gun but the Global sessions shut down before we
could do a remix of the song. |
