Okay i have to chime in on this one!
First my pick:
6. XTC
Second:
a brief little story about the origins of the name strangegirl.
So I was the Assistant engineer on the Skylarking album.
Todd Rundgren was producing the album and Prairie Prince played drums on it.
There was some pre-production done in New York at Todd's studio and then they came out to San Francisco to cut the basic tracks at the Tubes recording studio "Cavum Soni" otherwise known as "the Sound Hole" as Colin would say "with the emphasis on "hole".
I was basically the only engineer at the studio and at the time I was also living at the studio. I had lost my house and hunkered down with my 2 cats at the studio since I was there most of the time anyway.
I lived in a, well I will call it a loft, but that's being generous, above the bathroom.
XTC came and recorded in SF for a month. This was, in all of my experience as a recording engineer, my favorite experience. Super nice guys, really talented and really fucking great songs. I love this album. Todd has engineering credit but I'm credited on the album as Assistant engineer. Look for kim foscato in the credits, that would be me.
Anyway speed ahead to 1998. XTC puts out a book called "XTC song and stories"
If you are an XTC fan and don't have this book you should be kicked.
A friend of mine gets it and when he sees me he's all excited about this book and he's telling me that they even mention me in the book. I'm stunned, they remembered me, wow!
He tells me that I was reference to "..the strange little girl that lived in the attic." or something along those lines.
I thought that was pretty fuckin funny and I thought that would be a great name for my band.
Hence .... strangegirl.
I was actually referred to by Colin in the book, on page 185, as "the funny little tape op who lives in a little box up a latter on the wall"
Anyway there's my story.
:D
First my pick:
6. XTC
Second:
a brief little story about the origins of the name strangegirl.
So I was the Assistant engineer on the Skylarking album.
Todd Rundgren was producing the album and Prairie Prince played drums on it.
There was some pre-production done in New York at Todd's studio and then they came out to San Francisco to cut the basic tracks at the Tubes recording studio "Cavum Soni" otherwise known as "the Sound Hole" as Colin would say "with the emphasis on "hole".
I was basically the only engineer at the studio and at the time I was also living at the studio. I had lost my house and hunkered down with my 2 cats at the studio since I was there most of the time anyway.
I lived in a, well I will call it a loft, but that's being generous, above the bathroom.
XTC came and recorded in SF for a month. This was, in all of my experience as a recording engineer, my favorite experience. Super nice guys, really talented and really fucking great songs. I love this album. Todd has engineering credit but I'm credited on the album as Assistant engineer. Look for kim foscato in the credits, that would be me.
Anyway speed ahead to 1998. XTC puts out a book called "XTC song and stories"
If you are an XTC fan and don't have this book you should be kicked.
A friend of mine gets it and when he sees me he's all excited about this book and he's telling me that they even mention me in the book. I'm stunned, they remembered me, wow!
He tells me that I was reference to "..the strange little girl that lived in the attic." or something along those lines.
I thought that was pretty fuckin funny and I thought that would be a great name for my band.
Hence .... strangegirl.
I was actually referred to by Colin in the book, on page 185, as "the funny little tape op who lives in a little box up a latter on the wall"
Anyway there's my story.
:D
