By Dan Daley

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 04/01/2009

Producer/engineer Bill Szymczyk talke about the recording of Joe Walsh’s 1978 hit, “Life’s Been Good”

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/2009 ⋅ Updated: 07/21/2022

Engineers David Z and David Leonard discuss the recording of Prince’s 1984 Number One hit “Purple Rain”

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 12/01/2008

Engineer Ken Scott talks in detail about the recording of Lou Reed’s 1973 hit “Walk on the Wild Side” Trident Studios Herbie Flowers Thunder...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 09/01/2008

A look at the recording of Dobie Gray’s 1973 hit “Drift Away”

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 06/01/2008

When it came out in late 1973, Smokin' in the Boys Room immediately became the rallying anthem for what was for many high school...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/2008

In the vast and murky limbo of hipsterdom, Barry Manilow has been both a punch line and a punching bag, a synonym for American...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 02/01/2005

While much of what Bill Szymczyk has recorded during the past 40 years, from The Eagles to Joe Walsh to The Who, now forms...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 07/01/2004

Dayton Howe instinctively downplays his role in the creation of one of pop music's most memorable tracks. I was just the engineer, he says....

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 02/01/2004

It seems axiomatic that the further back in time we reach, the more the actual making of records becomes almost anticlimactic to what transpired...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 07/01/2003

Sometimes, a so-called "career record" can affect more than one career. When Arlo Guthrie's cover of the late Steve Goodman's paean to America's fading...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 06/01/2003

Randy Newman Sail Away is a classic song - Mix magazine talks to audio engineers and prodcuers about recording Sail Away in 1972.

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Few other songs have defined an artist, an era, a place in time and space, and an attitude like Jimmy Buffett's The song, released...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 07/01/2002

Kenny Rogers' recording of the Don Schlitz-penned song The Gambler turned a simple record into an entire industry. Aside from the tens of millions...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 03/01/2002

Recorded in late 1964 and reaching Number One in both the U.S. and UK charts in February 1965, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' gave...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 09/01/2001

Cream was one of the first nonorganically created rock supergroups of the 1960s. Music business entrepreneur Robert Stigwood contracted Eric Clapton,

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001 ⋅ Updated: 05/13/2022

Charged with turning a half-written Prince demo into a full-fledged track, David Z went to sleep one night and woke up to find Prince...

By By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

Chaos may be the natural state of the universe, unless artificial order is imposed on it. But in pop entertainment, the most successful chaotic...