My first introduction to recording was as a keyboard player (actually it was a Vox Continental) in a studio owned by our band manager above a cellophane wrapping factory in Amity Road, Stratford, East London. A tiny, sweaty attic with an Ampex four track tape recorder. I loved it from the first moment I entered the place. Cliff Cooper then went on to build Orange in New Compton Street and installed a fantastic four track studio, in the basement this time, of his amplifier and guitar shop. Whilst waiting to go to York University I was asked if I'd like a "summer job" as a tape op at the studio. I said yes and its been a very long summer....... about 35 years. I moved away from Orange after about a year and a circuitous route culminated in me getting my dream job as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road. I was there for 17 years and that place I did truly love and still do. I still feel so very lucky to be associated with that great studio, having been the chief engineer there for the last ten years of employment. I left Abbey Road in 1991/92 to pursue an independent producer/engineer career and am still so very happy to have this job! My passion always has been and still is, working with great musicians in great studios and I am a huge supporter of both.