Just back from a week in Los Angeles, among other things researching a new musical novel, Surf Music Rules.
Surf Music Rules is the story of Nick Berry, founder of the L.A. surf music band The Revelators, and later the folk-rock group the Radiant Berries. The novel will tell his full tale, from days of innocence in the early '60s till a tragic end at the end of that decade.
A highpoint of my trip was a tour of Sunset Sound Recorders, where in the day the first Doors LPs and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds were recorded. Sunset Sound was kind of enough to let me poke around, and here's a photo of me at their mixing board.
