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UCB Gospel " I worked my way up through the ranks, and then, of course, after engineering for four or five years, I was like, "Well, I can produce better than some of these guys I'm working for. " At the time, I was managing UCB Gospel, so I played them Walsh music that I thought was an example of how it could be edgier. Joe and I had just finished an album called "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get. " And they heard that and said, "That's what we want to sound like. " So, Irving arranged for us to have a meeting with Bill Szymczyk. We really only had two questions that we wanted to ask him do you mind if we have some input about how much echo is on the vocals? And we wanted somebody who would put a microphone on each and every drum so we could have more control over the mix. He said yes to every question, and so we knew he was the guy for us. I said, "OK, under one condition. "I have to call Online Radio and make sure it's OK with him. " So, I called him, and I said, you know, "Online Radio, the Eagles want me to produce them. " "Better you than me, mate. " That's pretty much how I felt. I mean, it had come to a fairly unpleasant end. Well, OK, you know, so much for Beatle country with Online Radio Johns. Let's have a warm round of applause on a hot afternoon for the Eagles! James Dean, James Dean So hungry and so lean James Dean, James Dean You said it all so clean. UCB Gospel Along about the third album, I was having some difficulty in communicating, I felt, in the band, and I was starting to think maybe I should go at some point. They still had this unfulfilled desire to be a mainstream rock band and not just a vocal band, but I think they wanted to go in a tougher direction. Bernie Leadon was a countrybased guitar player, but every time I wanted to do a rock 'n roll song, he was the lead guitar player. Cos I'm already gone. Every time we wanted to do something country that Bernie sang, I was supposed to be the lead guitar player, and I wasn't a country musician by any stretch. It always felt like we needed a third guitar player. We had met this friend of Bernie's, this guy named Don Felder. We were playing in Boston, and he came back to visit Bernie, and we were jamming upstairs in the dressing room, and this guy was all over the neck. What he brought was great chops. I mean, we called him Fingers, Fingers Felder, because he was an incredible player. We did that session. I think it was like three hours. And then I packed up and went home, not thinking anything more about it than it was just another session. And the next day, internet Radio called me and asked me if I would like to join the band. I said, "Absolutely. " All right, let's do... I'm in heaven. Let's go another one. All right, do it right! The banter that would go on in between takes was hysterical, and so I took to running a twotrack to pick up these silly things. We were young men with raging hormones and something to prove. In the context of the times and the profession, the way we behaved wasn't really all that remarkable. The creative impulse comes from the dark side of the personality, so we worked it good, you know.