[Dixielandjazz] Producing Recordings

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Bands and others often do stuff like this for tax write offs.  For a long 
time people here would fly to Europe for dental work because it was cheaper 
and they could deduct the trip from their taxes as a medical expense.  When 
all was said and done they got a trip to Europe and got their teeth fixed 
cheaper than here.  Trouble is they published the scheme in a couple of mags 
and the IRS got wind of it.  Tax deductions make things happen sometimes.
Larry
St.L
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:27 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Producing Recordings


> Bob Ringwald wrote:
> When we were done, a Rock band had the studio booked for 6-months, 24 
> hours
> a day to do an LP.  I have often thought about what I could produce if I
> were giving a budget that included 6-months in a recording studio......
>
>
> Along those same lines, in the 1990's I was asked by a record company to
> rent a mansion in an exclusive area of Madrid, rebuild (with real
> carpenters) the dining room to convert it into a studio control room, ship
> in a recording console, outboard gear, speakers, drums kit, grand piano,
> guitar & bass amps, sintezizers etc., from a hire company in the U.K., fit
> the whole place (which included two swimming pools & even a flamenco club
> room) with rented furniture, carpets, etc., rent all the necessary cooking
> gear & table settings, towels, bedding, rented satelite tvs, cars, hir 24 
> hr
> security guards, and fly in Dinah Ross' private cook, and on, and on....
>
> All of this gear,the house, cars & the cook were used for 3 months while a
> world-known pop group recorded THREE SONGS for their next album!  The 
> group
> flew back & forth between the U.K. & Madrid on a regular basis, as did 
> their
> families, etc.
>
> Why did they want to come to Madrid, you may ask?  They apparently liked 
> to
> go out for our famous night life, but their particular delight was in
> picking fights at the bars in town!!!
>
> I babysat them for the 3 months, getting them the little screws that go 
> into
> the base of microphone holders (to adapt to different stands) at
> midnite...., finding babyfood for a crying baby on a Sunday...., finding a
> hairdresser who could do something about the peroxed-haired girlfriend 
> who's
> hair turned green when she went for a swim!...etc.  (All terribly music
> recording sort of emergencies...a bit of tape would have solved the mike
> stand problem!)
>
> When they left, I cleaned up the joint...ending up with a year's supply of
> Guiness, gobs of meals that had been made up by the cook & left in the
> freezer), & I could have had a superb collection of porn magazines if my
> wife would have let me have 'em!  :>
>
> Although I was actually one of those raking in the cash due to this
> behavior, the thought did occur to me that there must be gobs of groups 
> out
> there that could have used some of the cash spent to record their own
> albums.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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