behind the scenes of Rock A Little

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vvICbQrQUknuereCUEV5H
another link to the same episode: https://podtail.com/no/podcast/in-th...en-overlooked/

So I came across this podcast I'd never heard of before, called In The Studio-- The Podcast with this guy who was a recording engineer who worked on a bunch of interesting projects including parts of Rock A Little for just about 3 weeks...though he says he isn't credited on the liner notes.

Here's the episode description from the website:

Inside the Making of Stevie Nicks' Often Overlooked Third Album
Episode Description
In this week's podcast I want to take you inside the making of Stevie Nicks' third solo album "Rock A Little". It was the heyday of grand studios and 80's excess. Pour a cognac... come hang out in the studio for a little while!

He says he worked on the recording of Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You. He describes Stevie in her mink coat because the studio was so cold (at her request), her use of pot, white powder, and cognac while recording (he didn't do drugs but still has a soft spot for Courvoisier as a result). He said she was very friendly and funny and told lots of FM stories. He also describes how in one of her white powder energy bursts she insisted she wanted to make sandwiches for everyone and so at 3am someone was sent to find cold cuts and bread and sandwich fixings. They brought them back to the studio and she sat on the floor slapping together sandwiches for everyone, telling them this is what she used to do for FM. Who knew?? It wasn't just the Bunn coffee machine, but sandwiches too. LOL

You don't need to subscribe to Spotify to be able to listen to it. I actually found it on Apple podcasts on my phone, but it works via this link online just fine too.

ok, his name is Brad Sundberg, here's some info on him: https://inthestudiowithmj.com/meet-brad/
Apparently he had a long working relationship with Michael Jackson and now does custom audio/video systems for rich and famous people.

He tries to give some background about Stevie, her career, and the place of RAL in her career to pad out the episode beyond just the story of his direct involvement and he gets things wrong-- he says she did Leather and Lace with Tom (!) and that the "David Stewart" listed as cowriter with Tom of a song called Don't Come Around Here No More isn't the same person as Dave Stewart the performer. He also talks about what the recording studio scene was like in LA in the 1980s. And he discusses how expensive and logistically challenging it must have been to make this album across the 16 studios listed on the liner notes. The actual real details about his direct work on RAL starts around 28 mins in.