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morindae
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I'm relatively new here Harvey, but I want to wish you a happy birthday and let you know that I too am learning a lot from your contribution to this forum. Thank you.
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Harvey Gerst
New member
Thank you all for your birthday wishes. It means a lot to know I have a lot of friends out there.
Today (Monday, May 26th) is actually my birthday. I turned 66 years old. In only 600 more years, I will officially qualify as the "Recording Engineer From Hell".
For my birthday weekend, my son Alex suggested we go out camping at Lake Texoma (to get me out of the house and away from the studio for a while).
It turned out to be the "camping trip from hell", and I wound up driving back to the house around 4 am, missing my shirt and socks, after the rain and wind drenched the inside of our tent. I'm renting a cabin next time.
On the plus side, an old bandmate sent me a recording of a live show we did in 1963 at the University Of Southern Louisiana, back when we were signed to RCA Victor. Damn, it was really funny to hear myself from 40 years ago. I was actually pretty funny back then, making up the intros to the songs as I went along. Kind of a cross between Dick Smothers, Tom Leher, and Jerry Lewis.
I never remembered anything I said, so each show was always different. I found out later that the other groups on the tour use to watch us from the wings, writing down the best stuff I came up with, for their own segments.
And I got a copy of our 1963 RCA single, which was never released. The "A" side was a song called "He Was My Brother", written by a then unknown singer/songwriter named Paul Simon. The "B" side featured me, singing a song I wrote, "River Come By My Door". Our producer was the legendary Al Schmitt.
And 40+ years later, I'm still in the music business - amazing.
It's been a wonderful 66 years; I'm really looking forward to the next 66 years.
Again, thank you all.
Today (Monday, May 26th) is actually my birthday. I turned 66 years old. In only 600 more years, I will officially qualify as the "Recording Engineer From Hell".
For my birthday weekend, my son Alex suggested we go out camping at Lake Texoma (to get me out of the house and away from the studio for a while).
It turned out to be the "camping trip from hell", and I wound up driving back to the house around 4 am, missing my shirt and socks, after the rain and wind drenched the inside of our tent. I'm renting a cabin next time.
On the plus side, an old bandmate sent me a recording of a live show we did in 1963 at the University Of Southern Louisiana, back when we were signed to RCA Victor. Damn, it was really funny to hear myself from 40 years ago. I was actually pretty funny back then, making up the intros to the songs as I went along. Kind of a cross between Dick Smothers, Tom Leher, and Jerry Lewis.
I never remembered anything I said, so each show was always different. I found out later that the other groups on the tour use to watch us from the wings, writing down the best stuff I came up with, for their own segments.
And I got a copy of our 1963 RCA single, which was never released. The "A" side was a song called "He Was My Brother", written by a then unknown singer/songwriter named Paul Simon. The "B" side featured me, singing a song I wrote, "River Come By My Door". Our producer was the legendary Al Schmitt.
And 40+ years later, I'm still in the music business - amazing.
It's been a wonderful 66 years; I'm really looking forward to the next 66 years.
Again, thank you all.
TexRoadkill
Audio Bum
Happy Bday Harvey. I appreciate all the help.
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Jonkan
New member
Happy Birthday Harvey!!!
I cant thank you enough for all the help you have given me here!
If you ever come to sweden, give me a call so we can go grab some beers and chat.
/Jonas H
I cant thank you enough for all the help you have given me here!
If you ever come to sweden, give me a call so we can go grab some beers and chat.
/Jonas H
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MAC2
Member
Happy birthday Harvey!....and thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!!
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dronestudios
New member
Cheers Harvey! Happy Birthday and hope you get all your "kicks" on birthday 66!
Fab4ever
Getting better
Happy Birthday! And thanks for all the countelss, sometimes frustrating hours of responding to all of us here. Now I have one more question:
How about getting someone to post that old single so we can hear it? I'm sure plenty of folks around here have web sites and MP3 encoding stuff available to you. What do you think?
Fab
How about getting someone to post that old single so we can hear it? I'm sure plenty of folks around here have web sites and MP3 encoding stuff available to you. What do you think?
Fab
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shortyprs
New member
A grand and glorious time to ya!
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Dot
New member
malcolm123
New member
Im Late but
Happy, Be lated, B-Day Harvey!!
Paul Simon? LOL amazing
Malcolm
Happy, Be lated, B-Day Harvey!!
Paul Simon? LOL amazing
Malcolm
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Beltrom
New member
Oh, yeah. Happy birthday!
And thanks for sharing your knowledge.
And thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Tom Hicks
Well-known member
Happy birthday and thanks for all the tips and such!
regards
Tom
regards
Tom
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jet-rocker
New member
Yup, a late Happy B-day from here too.
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notCardio
I walk the line
I guess my party invitation got lost in the mail again, huh?
Harvey,
Hope you got what you wanted for you birthday! (personally, I'd like the last 20 years back, but I never get it)
I can't think of anybody's opinion I respect more on just about anything.
I'd like to be you when I grow up.
And post those songs, dammit! (Too bad you didn't get 'Red Rubber Ball'. Things might have gone very differently, eh?)
Long live King Harvey!
Hip-hip hooray! Hip-hip hooray! Hip-hip hooray!
Happy Belated.
Harvey,
Hope you got what you wanted for you birthday! (personally, I'd like the last 20 years back, but I never get it)
I can't think of anybody's opinion I respect more on just about anything.
I'd like to be you when I grow up.
And post those songs, dammit! (Too bad you didn't get 'Red Rubber Ball'. Things might have gone very differently, eh?)
Long live King Harvey!
Hip-hip hooray! Hip-hip hooray! Hip-hip hooray!
Happy Belated.