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Don Petty Wally Heider Hollywood
Wondering if any of ya’ll remember my very good freind Don Petty from the Hollywood Heider? He passed away last year and I am just letting people that may have known him know. Don was, like so many Heider alumni, an incredible value to the recording industry. Mentored me my start in the 80′s.
The Wally Heider Orchestra
Wally had a dance band in the 40′s and Biff Dawes found an acetate (one-off-disk recording) of the band live: Did Wally himself set this up? check out THE WALLY HEIDER ORCHESTRA
My sister was Ginger Mews….
Ginger passed away May 19, 2000 at the young age of 59. (She came to be with us on Christmas Day 1999 with the hope treatment for her cancer would buy some time.) We later flew to SF and had a wonderful celebration of her life. There is a memorial bench in Golden Gate Park [...]
In: Firsthand Stories
RUSS GARY’S Recollections Part One
Noted CCR mixer Russ Gary Talks about his Heider experience…
When Wally Heider was an assistant engineer at United/Western Studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, he was the biggest big band enthusiast on the planet and would take his portable tape recorder to gigs and record the show so the guys in the band could hear their performance. He kept the recordings for his own enjoyment. He made friends in all the big bands of the day, and when bands came to United/Western to record, they would ask for Wally as their engineer. Thus, Wally’s career took off.
In: Firsthand Stories, Russ Gary
RUSS GARY’S Recollections Part Two
This is part two of this article. To see part one, go to http://wallyheider.com/wordpress/archives/rebel/39/ San Francisco Between late 1968 and early 1969 I made several trips to San Francisco to help prepare the studios for opening day. The original staff members included studio manager Mel Tanner, formerly an engineer at Coast Recorders in San Francisco. [...]
In: Firsthand Stories, Russ Gary