Oh, it gets even more interesting. See, there was this girl...
I fell in love with her. We ran together every morning and her parents did
so like me. Along comes suiter #2 and sweeps those running shoes of hers
right off the ground. We all toured together fulltime in a band. Well, I
kept noticing that he had a whole garment bag full of Trident Polo Shirts.
His father kinda took over the company during one of the takeovers. Just
like the son took over MY girl. Anyway... We did all become good friends
and they got married, had a whole stash of kids and became missionaries
then pastors. He just died of cancer a few months ago. Hmmmmmm? Uh, no.
That ship done sailed. But I do remember that like father, like son moment.
No worries, the "get him back moment" was epic and involved a whole lot of
stagecraft. Smoke machines, colored spot lights, a hearse and an
undertaker. Middle of the night... Bunk bed and a known habit of waking up
in the middle of the night and always looking out the window"... Gurney,
body bag, undertaker and more fog inside the room with an eary blue
light... "James. It's time!"
It takes a bloody lot of fog to inundate a parking lot. And even more
bloody lights hidden inside and under the hearse. Yes, we had fog coming
out of the hearse too. Oh, and eary music playing through half our sound
system.
I would love to say that I worked with Malcom on a project, but that would
be a half truth. It was mostly the other guy...
I agree about the digitalization tidal wave. Unfortunately, Malcom failed
to adapt. I think he tried at one point, but we already moved on. When we
did the EQ project, he was not helpful.
On Monday, November 25, 2013, Daniel Sepke wrote:
> I agree on the Trident versus Toft now, but I do wonder were it might have
> taken me. Malcolm is a very nice chap having briefly interacted with him
> many years ago. I'm so glad he was able to settle the nonsense with the
> brand and the ATB products out.
>
> You certainly were in the business during a lively time. I can recall
> working with Soundcraft and A&H before the Harmon-ization of everything
> started. At the time it seemed like doom and gloom but a few people got
> that digital was coming and then needed to adapt or die. Thank you again
> for tales (NDAs notwithstanding)
>
>
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