by Antion | Jun 23, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Indian Music, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Vic Briggs
I returned from my drive down into Big Sur at about the time I needed to get to the Fairgrounds for Ravi Shankar’s performance on Sunday afternoon, June 18th, 1967. About an hour before the performance, I made my way into the enclosure in front of the stage with prime...
by Antion | Jun 22, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, LA Recording, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
June 17th of this year represents the 50th anniversary of the second day (Saturday) of the fabled Monterey Pop Festival. Here’s how I spent that day. Because we were through with our performance on Friday night, we were able to kick back for the rest of the festival....
by Antion | Jun 21, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
The dates don’t exactly match, but the third weekend in June marks the 52nd anniversary of the first day of the Monterey Pop Festival. That 1967 Friday morning found the Animals in a Los Angeles airport hotel, ready to fly to Monterey. We were up bright and early to...
by Antion | Jun 20, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Monterey Pop Festival, Music History, Vic Briggs
1967 was a very special year, for me as well as for the whole planet. My memories from that year are still vividly etched in my mind. Two years ago, June of 2017, I was on a roll. I was sharing my memories of that year on Facebook and just getting into the “Summer of...
by Antion | Jun 8, 2019 | Antion Meredith, Music History, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
With the recent deaths of Hal Blaine (March 11th) and Mac Rebbenack (Dr John) who died June 6th, it made me want to look up other members of the fabled Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians who formed the core of the recording scene in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s. Sad...
by Antion | Jun 7, 2019 | Antion Meredith, LA Recording, Music History, Studio Musicians, Vic Briggs
In the spring of 1969, I was working as an independent arranger and producer in the recording studios of Hollywood. I got a call from Norm Ratner, a staff producer at Uni Records. I was Norm’s go-to arranger and had already done several projects with him. “Wally...
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