Bootlegged Again! The FLYING BURRITO BURRITO BROTHERS WMMR RADIO CONCERT

BOOTLEGGED AGAIN!

• The Flying Burrito Brothers
• Live at Sigma Sound Studios
• Produced for WMMR by DENNIS WILEN
• JUNE 1971

Fifty years ago! Damn! Still rockin'!

Super Interview with Sigma Sound Studios' Joe Tarsia

Legendary recording engineer and Sigma Sound Studios founder Joe Tarsia sits down to talk about his decades-long career "behind the board" in the music industry - from his early days at Cameo Parkway Records, to his long-standing relationship with Gamble & Huff of Philadelphia International Records, and the creation of "The Sound of Philadelphia" featured on over 200 gold & platinum-selling records, including David Bowie's Young Americans.

Joe gives me a nice shout out around 23:00 in...

#TBT July 1971: The Flying Burrito Brothers at Sigma Sound

‪#‎TBT‬ July 1971.

I brought country rockers The Flying Burrito Brothers into Philly's famed Sigma Sound Studios for one of my WMMR radio concerts. With Jay Mark and Joseph Tarsia behind the board, it sounded something like this ...

Still famous after all these years: BILLY JOEL redux

I've gotten lotsa press over the years, but my Billy Joel Captain Jack adventure is probably one of my greatest hits.

This ^^^^ image is a screencap of an ad on Facebook excerpting the Philadelphia Magazine story from August of last year.

You can read a short version of the saga in my Amazon review of Billy's CD.

And look for my retelling of the story in the upcoming Sigma Sound Studios documentary.

#TBT: My Robin Trower tape, next to David Bowie in the Sigma Sound vaults

The image is from the excellent WNYY/Newsworks article David Bowie's days amid the young Americans in Philly [photos].

I produced and recorded a live radio concert with guitarist Robin Trower, remote from Sigma Sound Studios, in Philadelphia, for radio station WMMR in 1974.

It sounded something like this...

AMERICA live at Sigma Sound: "A Horse With No Name"

 

AMERICA live at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, PA, February 1972. Gerry Beckley - vocals, guitars, bass; Dewey Bunnell - vocals, guitars; Dan Peek - vocals, guitars, bass, harmonica. Produced for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.