1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Welcome to the last studio on the boulevard. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,880 My name is Clay Blair, and I am bringing you a unique podcast 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,920 based out of my studio in Hollywood, California. 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:21,760 I've never done a podcast, I've done YouTube. 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,560 And usually I do it on my own, but with this, 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,600 I'm going to integrate something really interesting. 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,160 I am going to bring people to the table that have worked here, 8 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:59,280 not only in the past decade, but in the past three or four decades also. 9 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:12,840 So I just want to get your support, your attention, and start a conversation with my 10 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:13,840 listeners. 11 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,320 Maybe people you want to hear on the podcast that have been through the studio, 12 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,200 either since I've owned it or since it was owned by previous owners. 13 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,120 I also want to make this an avenue for friends of the studio, other engineers, 14 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:34,720 producers, musicians that have always maybe wanted to do a podcast and never had the 15 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,960 infrastructure to make it happen. 16 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,800 And I'm providing this infrastructure, and I'm going to make it happen. 17 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,720 We're going to have a couple of series throughout this podcast. 18 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:51,640 At the moment, I don't have a schedule, but I do know we have the very beloved 19 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:58,120 Bill Schnee coming on the podcast first thing. He will be our first official guest. 20 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:05,320 I met Bill when I first took the studio over in 2010, and I figured out its history. 21 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:11,680 He was instrumental in telling me what the studio was, what it wasn't, who was in there, 22 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,200 who wasn't, because there's lots of conflicting information out there when you all 23 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:23,040 you have to go on or old billboard articles and discogs. 24 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:29,080 Bill is an incredible engineer and one of the best that they're ever were. 25 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:35,760 And I'm beyond excited to have Bill here and also have it curated by Mr. Bonzai. 26 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,680 Many of you don't know Mr. Bonzai, but many of you might. 27 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,960 He was a staple at United Recording, formerly Oceanway. 28 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:50,440 For many, many years, and did publicity there, and he's instrumental also in keeping studios 29 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,440 alive. 30 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,200 And he knows these guys. 31 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:59,920 He's known most of the people that have worked in the studio in the 60s, 70s, 80s. 32 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:05,160 He's known them for many years, and so there's no one more knowledgeable from that era. 33 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,880 So we're really excited to have both of these guys on this podcast. 34 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,480 And we're going to call that series, Bonzai Boulevard. 35 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,320 So when Mr. Bonzai comes and interviews a guest, that's going to be like a sub series called 36 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Bonzai Boulevard. 37 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,280 And we're going to keep other episodes going at the same time. 38 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,760 I'm going to be doing interviews. 39 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:32,320 I might be interviewed, and I very well might have a guest interviewing someone else, 40 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,960 and I might do nothing but edit it and put it up. 41 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:41,920 You know, I want to get into the nerdy questions that, you know, what microphone did you put on, 42 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:53,680 David Gilmour's amp when he played the solo for comfortably numb. 43 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,640 Well, I know the guy that did that. 44 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,320 So we're going to see if we can get him on the podcast also. 45 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:00,560 Please subscribe. 46 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Please share it with your friends. 47 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:08,640 We're going to also have video with many of these podcasts, not all of them, but many of 48 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,240 them that will go on our YouTube channel. 49 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,120 You should be able to subscribe to this podcast anywhere you can subscribe to podcasts. 50 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,680 We are going to be on all of the main mediums. 51 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,840 Apple, Spotify, etc. 52 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,400 So thank you for listening. 53 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:33,400 This is Clay Blair.