![]() "They'd already given us $5,000 for the studio and we'd already spent it," Ladanyi recalls, still aghast at the memory of his first studio crisis. His partner at the time, Al Thomas, was engineering what would become Captain Beefheart's Blue Jeans And Moonbeams LP when it became apparent that there was a personality clash in the making. Initially, he was responsible for booking and marketing the facility as well as assisting at engineering. His first position was at a studio called Stronghold in LA. In the early 1970s, he had shifted to doing live sound for bands as well as managing a few of them. Van Halen was the house band (the only one allowed by the owner to play all original songs), and the Doors, Janis Joplin and other icons of the era passed through the club while Ladanyi worked there, sparking a more enduring interest in the music business. By the time he was 17, the accordion had morphed into keyboards and athletics gave way to evenings spend playing, and later managing and bartending, in clubs like the legendary Gazzarri's on Sunset Strip, hard by the Roxy and the Whiskey A Go Go, the centre of the LA music universe in the 1960s. "California is all I'd ever really known," Ladanyi recalls of a youth spent divided between accordion lessons and high-school sports. Greg Ladanyi's parents moved from the flatlands of Midwestern Indiana to sunny Los Angeles when he was one year old. ![]() The so-called SoCal Sound of the 1970s owed its existence, in large part, to a producer and engineer who was himself a Southern Californian. Greg Ladanyi showed up at the right time in rock history to chair sessions for Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Warren Zevon, Toto, Fleetwood Mac and the Jacksons - but while 50 percent of life may be simply showing up, the other half requires a lot of hard work. Greg Ladanyi backstage with the Studer 24-track used for recording the live material on Jackson Browne's Running On Empty.
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