Ai Chihuahua!
Thanks to James Mills esq. for sending this old photo of a recording session in, oh, maybe 1981?
We recognize two of these people: Ai and Chihuahua.
It seems like a tracking session, not playback, because nobody's sitting at the recording console. The guy in the blue sweatshirt is bending over the studio microphone and has probably just said something to one of the musicians inside recording. So Plot and Duck must be staring at...singers? Maybe the Byron twins, young and blonde, or maybe a horn section, old and grizzled? Maybe Jimmy Street is out there with his saxophone, or maybe Blue is doing a keyboard overdub? Or maybe it's D____, the junkie drummer who had to excuse himself after every take to go make a few phone calls?
The Duck's rapt expression and Plot's bright-eyed bleariness suggests coffee in that cup, but Duck's suit makes Plot think this photo was taken at a party at Rufus Studio that started early in the evening, so she had to come directly to the studio from downtown. Plot is dressed up too -- a Hawaiian shirt! You only wore broadcloth shirts and ties if you played traditional jazz or were someone's lawyer.
Plot is wondering right now how a guy with a rabbinical beard like that could have scored a fox like the Duck? It must have been the Mistletoe. Jeez, maybe it was.
The Great PD was only 7 or 8 and The Great BZWZ was maybe Minus 2?
Like the man said: Ai, Chihuahua!
posted by DAK @ 9:17 AM
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I think somebody is sitting at the console (I see a hand in the lower left), but I suspect you are watching a Dodgers playoff game with the rookie Fernando embarrassing the Expos.
That could be, except that the woman in the purple is looking very interested too.
Well, maybe the woman in purple is young enough to be still trying to feign interest in her squeeze's baseball fetish. Or maybe she was a huge baseball fan until the Dodgers broke her Expo-loving heart.
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