Re:Don Buchla, Electronic Music Maverick, Has Died
by Stratoscope on Sunday September 18, 2016 @04:10AM
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Aw man. My condolences to Don's family and friends.
I only met Don once, many years ago when my high school buddy Will Hegarty was visiting the Bay Area. Will had an audio electronics company called Tangent, and we went up to Don's house in Berkeley to talk shop. He was a great host, much fun to visit and to play with the neat instruments he was building.
On the way there we stopped at a recording studio in San Francisco on a cold call. No one was at the front desk, so we wandered around looking for someone to talk to. We ended up in the coffee room, and Art Garfunkel walked in. Really nice guy too. We chatted a bit, and Art asked us if we wanted to listen while he recorded a song.
That sounded like a very fine idea! Art brought us up to the control booth and he went down to record. We got to listen to part of the song, until his producer Roy noticed us, stopped everything, and practically shouted into the talkback mic, "Art! Who are these people?" Art said, "It's OK, Roy, they're cool."
Well, that didn't work. Roy threw us out the back door and we headed on our way to Berkeley.
After that minor humiliation, it sure was nice to get to hang out with Don!
I only met Don once, many years ago when my high school buddy Will Hegarty was visiting the Bay Area. Will had an audio electronics company called Tangent, and we went up to Don's house in Berkeley to talk shop. He was a great host, much fun to visit and to play with the neat instruments he was building.
On the way there we stopped at a recording studio in San Francisco on a cold call. No one was at the front desk, so we wandered around looking for someone to talk to. We ended up in the coffee room, and Art Garfunkel walked in. Really nice guy too. We chatted a bit, and Art asked us if we wanted to listen while he recorded a song.
That sounded like a very fine idea! Art brought us up to the control booth and he went down to record. We got to listen to part of the song, until his producer Roy noticed us, stopped everything, and practically shouted into the talkback mic, "Art! Who are these people?" Art said, "It's OK, Roy, they're cool."
Well, that didn't work. Roy threw us out the back door and we headed on our way to Berkeley.
After that minor humiliation, it sure was nice to get to hang out with Don!