PSW Recording Forums: User Information CHANCE

CHANCE's Profile

Date Registered:

Tue, June 14, 2005

Message Count:

3422 Messages(s) (3.2 average messages per day)
Show all messages by CHANCE

Real Name:

chance pataki

Status:

Platinum Member

Avatar:

Last Message:

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:19
Re: TIme To Open Your Studio In "Second Life"

Last Visited:

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:49

E-mail:

musicians.workshop@gte.net

Homepage:

http://www.the-musicians-workshop.com

Gender:

Male

Location:

Ontario California

Occupation:

studio owner

Interests:

music, automotive design, bible history

Biography:

I grew up in Chicago and got into music in the late 50's and played with members of Chicago ( in different bands ) before they became Chicago. My first professional gig was playing bass with Bruce Bolen who is now with Fender in Nashville. I think he is the VP. My first recorder was a Presto acetate-disc recorder. In the mid 60's I was in a band called "The 7 sounds" and we recorded a demo at Hall studios down in the Loop. One of the members in that group was Paul ( actually Norm ) Cotton now with POCO. Our engineer was Oscar Fields, a rookie engineer and our group was his first solo project ( I'll get back to this later ) around this time Bobby Goldsboro, who played bass for Roy Orbison's group called "The Webs" came out with a single I think it was Funny little clown, left the Webs, and I got the opportunity to play a midwestern tour with Roy and the webs. Around this time I had graduated to a Webcor wire recorder, then a Lafiette R2R recorder. I still have many tapes of Pete ( Cetera ) when he played with Cal David and The Exceptions. In 1968 I formed The Pepperment Riot, and went on the road. One of our stops was in the combat zone in Boston. We ended staying there untill 1979. We got hooked up with 2 singers and Galaxy Attractions, and formed Mason-Dixon & The LIne. ( later called "The Line Bros." ) This was a 10 piece show band and we worked the gambling circuit ( Vegas, Reno, Tahoe etc ) regulary We also worked in Japan every year at the same club for 10 weeks from 70 to 76. Our first time in Japan, ( 70 ) I had the privilige to play bass with Bill Chase of "Chase" we did a Japan TV commercial for Teac corp ( with Muhammed Ali who was fighting Mac Foster in Japan at the time ) and they gave me the first 3340 recorder brought into the US. Thats when I started The Musicians Workshop. I attended Berklee for 2 years and played with Randy and Mike Brecker in a group called "Dreams" at the Wagon Wheel in NY. and later had the joy of recording Natalie Cole while she was attending Boston College. I also recorded "Banned in Boston", a group that split into two and became "Aero Smith" and Boston. Tom Scholtz was the envy at that time with his 12 track Sculley, but I kept aquireing gear and playing my bass. In that time period I put together the soundtrack for "A way with words" a documentry of the Beatles music. Our group got a record deal and Joe Juliano, who also managed Chaka Kahn took us on and Joe Chikaralli produced us. To make a long story short many members of the band couldn't take the change from the east to the west coast and we split up. In 1980 I teamed up Hank Quinn from United Audio in Santa Ana ( this was the old Richeous Bros studio ) and formed Video Showcase Soundstage. Around that time I took up a hobby and spent 4 years designing and building an exotic gull wing sports car from the ground up, I got requests from several celebrities to build them one. Once it became a job, it was no fun anymore and I kept the prototype and sold the molds. I had a lot of my original songs recorded and started taking them to different labels. When I took my tapes to Electra Asylem Nonsuch records, I picked up a flyer and started to read it as I walked out the door and I saw the name "Oscar Fields president" I freaked and went back to the receptionist and asked if I could talk to Oscar. I got the blow off and was told that he's too busy to talk to you. so I asked her if she could give him a message that a possible old friend by the name of Chance was here. She agreed and as I was walking out the big double glass doors, I heard in a very loud voice CHANCE FROM HALL STUDIO IN CHICAGO ? It was Oscar that rookie engineer from the 60's back in Chicago. We had a warm reunion. Back in the studio in Santa Ana I started to get tired of all the usuall things like overhead, all the assembly line type of projects. Every time I still hear the Cal Worthington com, I remember him coming in to do the voiceovers. We also did the ARP 2600 over dubs for the Electric light parade at disney land. We had a live-in engineer Billy Bonham brother of the late John Bonaham (Led Zep) who had 10 2" master tapes by John Lennon. I decided to get out of the rat race and go private. The studio shut down and Billy left all those tapes, and all but one were stolen and I still have "Other Cities like London" by John Lennon which nobody has ever heard of. I bought a house in Ontario, gutted it and with the help of "Westlake audio" built my present studio. Now I can pick and choose my projects and I can come and go as I please. I find I can afford to be more creative and the stress has turned into pleasure and it's fun again 30 yr member of AES and NAMM #974200

Date Of Birth:

June 12, 1943

Show all messages by CHANCE

Sponsored Links