[BC] "Underground" (WAS: La st Sta nds)

[Steve]

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From: "Robert Orban" <rorban at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] "Underground" (WAS: La st Sta nds)

> I thought that Tom Donahue was credited as inventing the format at KMPX.
> KSAN followed soon thereafter.
>
> Bob Orban

"Big Daddy" Tom Donahue!
Right on the money Bob. I remember bringing Donahue a promo copy of the
album containing River Deep, Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner (A&M Records
produced by Phil Spector) and he grabbed that puppy and put it right on the
air. He LOVED it. Didn't do well (1966) and Spector got p****d off and went
to England for a good long time. Now he's back in L.A. behind bars. Wrote a
paper about him when I was at S.F. State. I have a program (video) in my VHS
collection all about Phil and "The Wall of Sound". His engineer, Larry
Levine, explains how they got that "Wall of Sound."  They used Gold Star
Studios in Hollywood (small studio) with quite a few iso baffles and
basically what he did was saturate the studio with LOTSA sound, compress the
heck out of  low end and heavily excite the echo chambers. That's why all of
the mid-sixties Spector songs have the real sub-sonic low end sound, you
know those notes you can even hear on a small speaker. :) Sorry for my rant
here but he was (hate past tense) one of the best in my book.

Steve