Hey Steve, where was this picture of you taken????

[John Oteri]

Hey Steve, this is a great shot of you that appeared in an old Stereophile (or was it Stereo Review) magazine. Can you tell us where this was and what type of console that is?

[Steve Hoffman]

That was over at LRS in Burbank (Location Recording Service). There were two mastering rooms, one cutting (only) room, and a back studio where Madonna & others recorded and hung out.

It was a neat place!

That's a Neumann console, actually. Modified by Kevin Gray. About 8 years ago now I guess.

That shot and a bunch more are on Claus Cheng's website. Go here:

http://www.ccheng.de/musik/stevehoffman.html

[John Oteri]

Thanks, Steve!

Isn't LRS a studio that the Beach Boys recorded in? And some other famous guys?

Sounds like a neat place? What ever happened to it? :(

[Gary]

Steve, you've worked with and know so many famous people, I just find it amazing!

I am curious: Do you ever keep momentos of artists that you've met? Autographs? Do you write down stories? Anything?

[Steve Hoffman]

Gary, it's really just a days' work. The studios in this town ALL have heavyweights who hang out there. We really can't talk about them, or bother them, 'cause they won't come back, ya know?

As for autographs, yes, I got Madonna's (on the first page of her, er, "photo" book). :)

Usually when I ask for an autograph, it's from some old time engineer or musician; Hal Blaine, John Kraus, Norman Petty, Bill Porter, Larry Levine, Stan Ross, Fred Hynes (invented the Todd-AO system), etc. To some of these guys, it's the FIRST time they have been asked!

Heck, if you want celebrities, when I used to work at Universal in the late 1970's and early 1980's, man oh man: One day I saw John Travolta walking arm in arm with Peter Sellers. That afternoon, I saw Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock! Not to mention all the regulars who hung around the Com. during lunch every day: Kojak, Tony Danza, Erin Gray and the Buck Rogers crowd, Jim Garner, Shaun (Mr. Da Doo Ron Ron) and the other Hardy Boy who's name I can't think of.... (oh yeah, Parker Stevenson), Lorne Greene, Patrick McNee (who were both filming Battlestar Galactia), Quincy, Colombo and YES Bobby Blake! And that was in just one lunch room.

All in full make up, chumming with us music dudes, at ease and happy. Studio prez Lew Wasserman would walk through and shake everyone's hand (even ours).

It was fun!

[Gary]

:) Cool, Steve! :)

[RetroSmith]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Steve Hoffman

[Heck, if you want celebrities, when I used to work at Universal in the late 1970's and early 1980's, man oh man:


Quincy,


>>>Steve, now THERES a celebrity.........Quincy, the crusading coroner.


"Sam.....get me those Tox screen results...........unless I miss my guess, little Billy Miller didnt - have - to - die"...............

Hey, I"m not ashamed to say that I tape Quincy every single day. My goal is to get all 183 episodes on tape.



Mikey

[Steve Hoffman]

At Universal, we used to eat our lunch on the Quincy set with the crew (my girlfriend was the AD on that show). Nice bunch of people. Most of the folks behind the camera on that show were like 64 years old, and had been working at Universal since the days of "Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman"!

The rest of the time, my buddies and I ate lunch on the steps of the "Psycho" house. :cool:

[Pat]

Steve,

Now we know where the "idea" for the Monster Rock'N Roll Show CD came from!!!

EEK!!!
:eek: