This was my first "big" studio gig. At least I though it was at the time. I met this producer named Ian Prince somewhere in LA. I don't why now but he invited me down to his room at Westlake Audio. Westlake is a very nice studio in Hollywood where a lot of famous people have recorded and Ian had his own writing room with all kinds of gear in it. I was new to the big time studio thing at that time in my life so I thought this guy was huge and was in awe of all the stuff around and this great studio. I thought I was on my way to the big time. He was working with this girl Taja Seville. I had never heard of her before but apparently she was big. He called me in to come record. I was very excited. This was my first big session. Well at that time in 1991, lots of pop records all had drum machines. But they sounded stiff so Ian wanted me to come in to play hi-hat over the top of his drum programming. It was a good education into the whole recording process and recording business. I came in and it was only Ian and the engineer. I never met Taja. I played my hi-hat parts, (Needless to say it wasn't a very hard session), went into the control room and listened to what I did, shook their hands, and grabbed my hi-hats and left. Not very glamorous at all. I was there for a half an hour

I did the same thing for Ian one more time while he was working with Manhattan Transfer. The Jazz vocal group. Same exact thing happened. I never met them and the songs I played hi-hat on never got released. At least my parts made the Taja Seville record. My wife Tiffany heard one of the songs at a department store in the mall one time.

I never heard from him again after that. After years in the music biz, that does not surprise me. I have met probably hundreds of people that have a lot going on, talk very big, and then disappear. At least my name made it on the credits of the CD.