![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was feeling pretty good about myself, but all I really wanted was to meet and work with Andy Johns. CURRENT My Friend Andy Johnsīy 1981 I had acquired pretty good street cred as a guitarist, playing with the likes of Automatic Man, Narada Michael Walden, Pat Travers and even a “supergroup” that featured Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, Al DiMeola, Junior Marvin, and Phil Manzanera. Elvis, Waylon, Willie, Roy Orbison, George Jones, Tammy Wynette…Dolly recorded “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the big room on the same day in 1973! There is a whole lot of history hiding in these nooks in crannies, a whole lotta dirt in the walls, as a friend used to say…. Its official name back when Chet Atkins built it in 1965, in a building owned by Atkins and Owen Bradley, was RCA Victor Nashville Sound Studios, but around town it has always been simply RCA Studio A. ON THE COVER On the Cover: Ben’s Studio, Nashville ![]() They were in fact two sides of the same man you didn’t have one without the other…. In the days and weeks following his passing on March 30, as the stories and remembrances made their way across our industry and out into the world, it became clear that the tales of his vast accomplishments both technically and creatively, of Phil the Musical Genius, were balanced part and parcel by warm recollections of Phil the Kind and Generous Human Being. May 2013 WELCOME May 2013 Editor’s Note: To Phil Ramone, a Toast! ![]()
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