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Chris Schlarb
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Producer / Composer / Studio Owner
Long Beach, CA.musicfromBIGEGO.comJoined August 2008

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My wife and I were in attendance that night. It was a hilariously titled event: Yahoo! Presents Nissan Live at Fox Studios. We only knew it was a Herbie Hancock performance. Joni was a total surprise. Marcus Miller on bass. Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. Sometimes you get lucky.
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15 years ago this week, Joni graced the stage for @HerbieHancock's Nissan Live Set, where she treated 300 lucky guests to performances of "Hana,” “River,” and “The Tea Leaf Prophecy.”
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If playing on "Apostrophe" by Frank Zappa and the first Crosby, Stills, & Nash album are minor footnotes in your discography you're doing something right. Rest In Peace Jim Gordon. I wish you could have gotten the help you needed.
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Thinking about the great and tragic life of Jim Gordon this morning. One of the best musicians of his time… from Pet Sounds to All Things Must Pass to Layla to Bongo Rock to Low Heeled Spark to Mad Dogs to Pretzel Logic to this Gold Star session for Sonny & Cher.
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good people, we just lost my old buddy spotski, a terrible blow. he recorded the minutemen's first stuff, I go way back w/this man. brother matt took this shot six years ago when spotski came to visit our pedro town... man, this is a terrible blow. I love you spotski forever.
spot (l) + mike watt (r) in san pedro on dec 3, 2017 - photo by brother matt matich
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Some heavy hitters involved. Heather Sommerhauser and Ann Thaiss on vocals. Stephen Hodges on drums and percussion. Anna Glenn on flute with Carey Frank and Philip Glenn on Prophet 10. I played a lot of nylon string acoustic guitar!
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The world is a lesser place without Wayne Shorter. Today seems like a good time to revisit his collaborations with The Rolling Stones, Allan Holdsworth, Joni Mitchell, and maybe his weirdest solo album, "Moto Grosso Feio." RIP to one of the great artists of our time.
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Thinking about a couple lesser known Wayne Shorter performances on the week of his 89th birthday. Here's Wayne playing soprano saxophone with The Rolling Stones on the Keith Richards tune, "How Can I Stop?" Produced by Don Was. youtube.com/watch?v=KUjd8l
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Stoked to have hosted a few sessions for this record at BIG EGO over the last couple years. Love Tim's music and guitar playing. Another Krassner Klassic.
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hello, we made a new album! califone : villagers. it is a peach. it comes out may 19 you can pre-order now pocp.co/villagers . you can listen to the 1st song the habsburg jaw and watch this ridiculous video. psa: please try not to do royal inbreeding youtu.be/tsSxyI0CwBo
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During my only lesson with Carol she told me that Brian Wilson and Frank Zappa were two of the only artists she worked with who did their own charts. She also told me I was a "pretty good guitarist" and that modes are "just teachers trying to teach."
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The legendary Carol Kaye still grooving at 87
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The studio was full of ringers on this one: Mike Baggetta on electric guitar, Tabor Allen on drums, Anthony Shadduck on bass, Carey Frank on organ and the great Danny Frankel on percussion. His tambourine reads: “A painting by Jasper Johns is equally accessible.”
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Recording notes: Royer R121 on Alicia's lead vocal. It's a figure 8 mic angled down with the opposite side toward the ceiling. Piano in the null. VERY little bleed with a full band in the room. ASC Tube Traps around the piano were crucial. Backing vocals are the only overdubs!
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Out today! I produced and mixed Alicia Walter's new single, "Right Noise". This record just feels timeless to me. Great songs. No headphones. No click. Everything live in the room. Full length album out on BIG EGO Records in June. Streaming & video here: lnk.to/RightNoise
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Sending Marc Ribot’s guitar out to my Space Echo while mixing the new Maria Elena Silva record. Repeat rate and intensity to taste. Note the dummy plug in the “From PA” jack for 100% wet use with an auxiliary send.
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I don't really watch TV but god damn Poker Face is great. Finally something that has a soul. Feels like Altman directing Columbo. Second episode opens with Tom Waits and closes with Donald Fagen. Excessive use of solo banjo in the score. Highly recommended.
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Aquarium Drunkard reviewed "On Recording" alongside Rick Rubin's new book and might have come out ahead. 👀
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Sssh, you've wandered into the AD library for another installment of Book Club. This month, @RickRubin on creativity, @schlarb's On Recording, a 400-pager dedicated to The Byrds, @aidan_levy on Sonny Rollins, & Amiri Baraka's groundbreaking Black Music. aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/02/03/aqu
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I probably buried the lede by not mentioning my tracking setup for On Recording. Probably the only audiobook recorded onto a cassette tape with a little Roland Space Echo in the mix?! Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy today. I think we've almost broken even. 🙏
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I love it when sound designers just go completely over the top with a sound effect. Here's a scene of a woman tapping a piece of paper in "JFK" (1991). SOUND ON.
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Finally getting around to mixing Dave Easley's new pedal steel album, Ballads. David Tranchina on double bass, Jay Bellerose on drums, Jeff Parker on guitar. Produced by yours truly. Out on BIG EGO Records this fall. It's a stunner.
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Went to Donald Fagen's 75th Birthday Celebration at the Lodge Room last night to see a couple friends in the band. Wound up catching Tracy Ullman sing "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" and she broke my heart in 17 places.
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