Elixir
Made in America
I saw my future walk into a crowded restaurant, where I was drinking alone at the bar. I was feeling sorry for myself, being a number of hours or days into a pause in “stands”.
I saw her and thought to myself, “THAT should be my girlfriend!” Actually subvocalized that thought, which I don’t usually do.
She was with a gaggle, including a few people I knew somewhat from the music industry. That gave sufficient excuse to get up and go “say hi”. Which I did, but ran out of bravery before introducing myself to those I didn’t know, including the future Mrs Elixir.
I did see her again one time, seated with the owner of a nightclub and the “SO”s of the band. I sat with them for a bit trying to figure it out … unsuccessfully.
A month or few later, I agreed to let a couple of musicians record a short set - maybe 6 original songs - in my studio. They told me they were bringing in a drummer who had been on some charting tracks, and a producer who had worked for the Pointer Sisters, Quincy Jones and others. I was frankly impressed, and well out of my league as far as engineering and production. The drummer came in with his own recording engineer, and played all the Songs’ percussion parts with no accompaniment, just reading charts written by the two guys. Got that done in a couple of days and he flew back to LA. The producer showed up and started working with the two songwriter/players layering bass, guitars, vocals.
Early on I was challenged, when the producer brought his wife with him. It was Mrs E.
Over a proof of weeks I would find her in my house or sunbathing on the deck right outside the kitchen window (!@&#*^%!!!) while her husband worked in the studio. There was time for cautious interaction and a superficial familiarity to develop, and I worked on ‘letting it go’.
To me it was a bolt out of the blue when she called me up one day after the project was over*, and asked me to take her out.
The rest is tumultuous history
* they entered two of the tracks in the Boulder Music Contest and got first and third out of over 150 recordings, so that worked out
I saw her and thought to myself, “THAT should be my girlfriend!” Actually subvocalized that thought, which I don’t usually do.
She was with a gaggle, including a few people I knew somewhat from the music industry. That gave sufficient excuse to get up and go “say hi”. Which I did, but ran out of bravery before introducing myself to those I didn’t know, including the future Mrs Elixir.
I did see her again one time, seated with the owner of a nightclub and the “SO”s of the band. I sat with them for a bit trying to figure it out … unsuccessfully.
A month or few later, I agreed to let a couple of musicians record a short set - maybe 6 original songs - in my studio. They told me they were bringing in a drummer who had been on some charting tracks, and a producer who had worked for the Pointer Sisters, Quincy Jones and others. I was frankly impressed, and well out of my league as far as engineering and production. The drummer came in with his own recording engineer, and played all the Songs’ percussion parts with no accompaniment, just reading charts written by the two guys. Got that done in a couple of days and he flew back to LA. The producer showed up and started working with the two songwriter/players layering bass, guitars, vocals.
Early on I was challenged, when the producer brought his wife with him. It was Mrs E.
Over a proof of weeks I would find her in my house or sunbathing on the deck right outside the kitchen window (!@&#*^%!!!) while her husband worked in the studio. There was time for cautious interaction and a superficial familiarity to develop, and I worked on ‘letting it go’.
To me it was a bolt out of the blue when she called me up one day after the project was over*, and asked me to take her out.
The rest is tumultuous history
* they entered two of the tracks in the Boulder Music Contest and got first and third out of over 150 recordings, so that worked out
