If you knew me back in 1996 then you for sure got one of these CDs from our TV show Punk Uprisings! Shout out to Susan Willis wherever you are. Also @joey.escalante was a huge supporter 💪
Down By Law
Hit or Miss music video. 1994
We built a room over Darren’s pool and had a rain machine and some kind of flamethrower apparatus.
Great song great video
https://youtu.be/FsrE0OT8jFU?si=qoDcLcqyw33HOYoj
The Sound Satisfaction Foley Stage on Magnolia in Burbank is finally closing down for good.
Sound Satisfaction was my first real job in post production, in the mid-late 1990s (gulp).
Gary Coppola passed away in 2023 and Bob Manahan passed away in 2000.
They both taught me a TON about post and how to conduct oneself in the industry.
I started as a runner and my main job was basically driving tapes and 2” reels (gulp) from Burbank to Hollywood & Vine to Sony. Over and over again. With only a pager as main point of contact.
Eventually I started managing the foley stage, which was also used for ADR back in the day. We did that show PROFILER for NBC. Traci Lords came in a few times, as well as Robert Davi, who kept trying to smoke cigs on the stage.
One time I spelled Michael Biehn’s name wrong on a cue sheet and got in trouble. (yep, I wrote Bean)
I got to watch some absolute foley legends do their thing. Bob Rutledge worked there quite a bit. His credits are insane – he worked on all three Star Wars movies and Wolfen and Back to the Future to name a few.
The main artist I assisted was Ed Steidele. I watched him throw on high heels and walk the SELENA movie. I helped him scrape trash cans across cement for the bridge crash scene in BREAKDOWN.
The legend Kyle Rochlin was there for a lot of it as well. Power Rangers Movie, Payback, freakin BIO DOME!
We also did a season of LA HEAT. What a show. Bob Manahan said to me “congrats you are now a Sound Supervisor” because he really couldn’t be bothered with the day-to-day of it. I cued ADR and FOLEY on paper. I learned on the fly and luckily got to work with Marcus Pardo down at Novastar and we have been close friends ever since.
Anyway, just wanted to mark the passing of this space. A ton of great people and projects went through there in the last 25 years after I left, but that is for others to talk about.
You have to fight real hard to maintain an independent sound company in this industry. It’s not easy. You don’t get rich. Props to Gary Coppola and his band of artists for carving out their own path.
Thanks to @magu_sound for the pics.
As the Olympics kick off today I think back to one of my proudest moments as a father.
It was many years ago at the Museum of Pinball in Banning (RIP) Fletcher won his age group in the Track & Field arcade championships.
The skill, the tenacity , the button mashing. What a day. What a legend.
