DR. BOB: The CD’s (Introduction)

    Jeffrey D. Howrey recounts, “I have been doing recording sessions steadily since I was a teenager. In recent years, I have tended to associate certain studios with the food we got to eat on breaks and the restaurants we tended to favor when working each locale.

    “I think this association was largely due to the fact that during most of my adult life I have lived as a starving artist, never exactly sure where my next meal was coming from,” he continues. “Anyway, whenever the band was working in the studio, my presence was in more of a high demand than in my usual day-to-day existence and somebody at the sessions was always willing to buy me a free lunch to keep me cranking out the tracks.
    “So, for instance,” Howrey concludes, “at Todd Anderson’s studio where we recorded ‘No Woodstock,’ there was a gas station down the street with great deli sandwiches. Whenever we recorded at Tony Korologos’ Fast Forward studios, we always went out for Mexican. At Klay Gustin’s DogHouse studio, we had longtime Dr. Bob roadie and engineer John “Hype Jones” Gonthier cater the meals. The all-night sessions with engineers James Anderson and Kyle Ellison at Performance Audio were fueled by screwdrivers drunk out of mason jars. One day at L.A. East Studios in Salt Lake City, I was eating my lunch on the back steps during a break and one of the yuppie owners of the place spotted me, assumed from my apparently unimpressive wardrobe that I was some sort of vagrant and promptly kicked me off the property. I had to go across the street to call engineer Robert Abeyta from a pay phone so he could sneak me back into the session.”