Hey y’all

Summer is here in the city …. HOT AND FUN

I just spent a really fun couple of weeks at Village Recorder working on a fun project that is a collaboration between John Mellencamp and Stephen King with T Bone Burnett producing the music.

Ghostbrothers blog

Stephen King blog

John has been developing a story with Stephen for many years that is finaly coming to fruition as a DVD/Book/Stage Play and whatever other media it ends up as.

The story is a ghost story with the participation of many well known artists. The artists play characters as well as sing songs. It is a very interesting and creative idea. I feel very fortunate to have the chance to be part of this project. Keep you eyes peeled as it develops.

I am continuing on with Ted Templeman to finish the Doobie Brothers record as the summer progresses

I’ll keep you posted on that front too.

Stay cool and keep on Rockin !

My dear friend Stephen Bruton succombed to cancer on Saturday morning May 9.

He was a dear friend,partner in crime and music and I miss him dearly

Happy Easter, since the last post was Valentines Day, I felt Easter was an appropriate day to post again.

All good in the hood. Everything is Everything…. and all that

The Sick Puppies record is fully tracked and it kills so far and is being mixed as we speak.

I am still marching forward on the Doobie Brothers record.

I think we should be mixing soon. The Doobie Brothers have a busy touring schedule this year with a bunch of great shows.

I am also close to mixing Brandon White , the killer young talent from Arkansas.
Like I said
Everything is Everything
Peace Out

Love Love Love

all we need is love…..

On this wonderful Valentines day morning, I have just finished up another 2 plus weeks on the new Doobies record.

Studio D in Sausalito worked great for the overdubs.

Some of the highlights were some of the outside musicians.

Billy Paine of Little Feat played some amazing piano and organ

He is one of the finest muscians on earth.

Carl Perazza, who is in Santana’s band schooled the room on what it means to groove.

Marc Russo and Tower of Power’s Mic Gillette put some great horn parts down.

Next Up Sick Puppies….

Starting on Monday I will get back into the new Sick Puppies record and sleep in my own bed for a few weeks !!!!

A BUSY 2009 NEW YEAR , A GOOD START ON GOOD ART

Hey Gang. The new year has blasted out of the box. I started right away tracking drums at Ocean Studios with Matt Laug for producer Gary Clark and artist RyanDan.

Before going back with The Doobie Brothers, I squeezed a couple of tracking days with cool Indie artist Shane Alexander at Stagg Street.

then, I went back to John Mcfee’s studio do another couple weeks with the Doobie’s.

John Mcfee playing banjo

From there I went to the Namm show for a couple of appearances in the Waves plugin booth.

Immediately following I flew to the midwest for tracking session with new artist Brandon White

Brandon has one of those low Johnny Cash type sounding voices, with a high falsetto like Jeff Buckley.

Look out for Brandon in the upcoming months !!

While I was away tracking Brandon,my 11 year old son Brady, earned his 1st dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do

YEH, I am so very proud

With the month not yet over, I am about to head back up to No. Cal to Studio D in Sausalito to record more Doobie’s

I’ll keep you posted

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!

Merry Christmas,Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa and Happy New Year !

Peace to all and lets make the next year a great one !!!!

It has been a long road going down, and the record is done.

The Damon Castillo Band record “Laurel Lane ” is done will be released this month.

I finished the mixing and mastering last week and we are all very proud of it.

Check out The Damon Castillo Band page on myspace

is a soulful, timeless band and I hope the work we did will speak for itself.

These guys are from San Luis Obispo, which is in the mid coast of California.

Damon and the band and I all worked very hard to make a great record

I hope that this creates the momentum for great success

I believe the songwriting, performances and vibe has legs to stand on

good luck and

peace out you guys

Its hot and its summer here in LA and I have been busy. I just returned from a couple of weeks in John McFee’s studio recording a new Doobie Brothers record with producer Ted Templeman. We won’t be done till next year probably but it was good to get more work done. Now back, I am at it again on my Ryanhood and Damon Castillo records …..
No rest for the wicked !!

I just got back from a great PotLuck Con in New Orleans.
What a terrific gang of people. Great hang, great food …

and then right back to the studio

mixing a fun new band from Atlanta on Decca/Universal this month,

The LOve Willows

After LOve Willows, I will be getting ready to mix  my labour of love

Damon Castillo Band

Hey guys. I just finished mixing a new Edgar Winter record. He is one of my favorite artists along with his brother Johnny. Edgar is also part of Ringo Starr’s Allstarr Band. I was fortunate enough to have Edgar at my house on a couple of occasions. One Sunday afternoon, Edgar sat down at my old “yellow submarine” of a piano and wailed away. I was lucky to grab it with my cheese camera. He is wailing way on “Fly Away” from the first White Trash record

Check it out …

Edgar Winter jamming