Hi Gary,

That's a gorgeous arts & crafts house.

I wasn't playing (if only I could) just a lowly roadie/ engineer for the highly talented keyboard player and programmer Derek Austin.
Basil Poledouris (RIP) had Derek programme a huge keyboard rig so that that they all played out by MIDI to a click track which was fed to the orchestra to play along to. It's a long time ago but I think it was relatively unuasual as Derek was in one control room (3?) which linked to another this way they linked two mixing desks and two parallel Studer A80- 2" machines. Something like that anyway.

It would have been around 85 and they were pushing what was possible in the best Abbey Road style.
Couldn't tell you about engineers or producers it's too long ago, I wasn't there for the duration but came and went as required each time they needed adjustments and changes, think it was over 2 or 3 days.
I was a kid at about 20, so very eager to learn and it was an electric experience.
Looking back - too young to fully appreciate it!

For context: Just before this recording session I had undertaken the electrical & audio installation works for Derek's 64-channel keyboard film score studio (Broxmead Studio) which had been featured in Studiosound.

I guess because of Broxmead I was befriended by Abbey Road staff and was given the full tour and was also taken to the old EMI factory in Hayes and shown the Anechoic chamber. I am eternally thankfull to Abbey Road, (particularly to Mr Phil Hancock) as he set me on my way and helped me establish myself in London in an associated field.

It was an amazing experience, I can still remember the smell of the place and the long corridor with black thick pile carpet was chocka block like a traffic jam of obsolete Studer A80 2-tracks.

Glorious days