This page is an attempt to list all the sessions I did as an assistant at the very begining of my career,
and is meant to help me remember what I did way back when, before I forget all that ancient history.
This page will be of very little interest to anyone out there, so feel free to move on...
Click on the thumbnails for additional info.
Angie
You Got Me Dancing
Angie:
You Got Me Dancing
Role:
Assistant, Engineer (overdubs)
1980
Label:
Taurus/Barclay
Studio Damiens. My first sessions as an "engineer", I probably only did overdubs. To say I was clueless would be an understatement.
French female singer (the hair! the sunglasses! the clothes!) backed by an English band, half pub rock, half Eurovision.
Atlande
Atlande:
Role:
Assistant (Damiens)
1979/1980?
Pierre Bachelet
Elle est d'ailleurs
Pierre Bachelet:
Elle est d'ailleurs
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1982
Label:
Avrep
Studio Aquarium. Known for his scores for various Emmanuelle movies and the Story of O.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Album of the Year
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers:
Album of the Year
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1981
Label:
Timeless
Studio Davout. A young Wynton Marsalis snapped at me for daring to ask if it was possible to move Mr. Blakey's high-hat a bit in order to get a better position for a microphone. (I was indeed clueless.)
Box Office
Jouez avec moi
Box Office:
Jouez avec moi
Role:
Assistant
Format:
45, 12"
198?
Label:
Biram
George Chakiris
Rappelle Toi
George Chakiris:
Rappelle Toi
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1980
Label:
RCA Victor
Studio Aquarium. Better known for his role in West Side Story. He had a second career in France as a crooner.
La Compagnie Creole
Blogodo
La Compagnie Creole:
Blogodo
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1982
Label:
Carrere
Studio Davout.
La Compagnie Creole
C'est Bon Pour Le Moral
La Compagnie Creole:
C'est Bon Pour Le Moral
Role:
Assistant
1981/1982?
Label:
Carrere
Studio Davout.
Contagion
Roxa
Contagion:
Roxa
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1980
Label:
Carrere
Damiens.
Alice Cooper
Alice in Paris (aka "Paris Special")
Alice Cooper:
Alice in Paris (aka "Paris Special")
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Video
1981
Studio Davout. Live-in-the-studio video.
Duroc
Duroc!
Duroc:
Duroc!
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1980
Label:
Barclay
Keith Emerson
Night Hawk OST
Keith Emerson:
Night Hawk OST
Role:
Assistant
Format:
OST/LP
1981
Label:
Backstreet Records
Studio Davout.
Five Letters
Got Got Money
Five Letters:
Got Got Money
Role:
Assistant
1979
Label:
Malligator
Studio Damiens, Aquarium. During one of the vocal sessions, one of the singer/producers sang naked on the floor, he thought it was hysterically funny. It was quite strange.
Five Letters
Ma Keen Dawn
Five Letters:
Ma Keen Dawn
Role:
Assistant
1980
Label:
Malligator
Studio Damiens
Esther Galil
Les Mots Qui Fachent b.w. Super Nova
Esther Galil:
Les Mots Qui Fachent b.w. Super Nova
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single
1980
Studio Damiens.
Les Garcons
Les deux amants
Les Garcons:
Les deux amants
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single
1980
Label:
ZE
Formerly known as Marie et les Garcons. By now Marie was gone and the original punk edge and distortion had been replaced by a pop/disco sound, but I was still a fan.
Stan Getz
Billy Highstreet Samba
Stan Getz:
Billy Highstreet Samba
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
Recorded November 4, 1981
Label:
Polygram Jazz France
Studio Davout.
Roy Harper
The Unknown Soldier
Roy Harper:
The Unknown Soldier
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1980
Label:
EMI Harvest
Studio Aquarium, guitar overdub sessions with Dave Gilmour, who was the producer.
Gilmour was the first star I'd ever worked with, and turned out to be both an extremely gracious gentleman and down-to-earth guy, aside from a very impressive musician.
I was in charge of punch-ins, which was something I had never done before. Aside from the pressure of working with Pink Floyd's guitar player,
I had to figure out how to punch in and out in solos with long sustainy notes, without any gaps in the sound.
We were using an MCI analog machine, so you had to anticipate when to punch out because of the distance between the erase and the record heads.
Needless to say, it was a disaster and I kept messing up. Gilmour never complained or asked for another assistant, he played over and over again
until I managed to get it right.
A few years later, I met him again at Air Studios in London while working with Duran Duran. I wanted to apologize for my klutziness then but he pretended not to remember.
Lili Drop
Sur ma mob
Lili Drop:
Sur ma mob
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single
1979
Label:
Arabella
Studio Damiens. My very first session - I was the assistant's assistant!
Metropolis
Beyond the Limit of Safety
Metropolis:
Beyond the Limit of Safety
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single
1980
Label:
Carrere
Studio Damiens
Alain Monney
Y'a Personne... (...Y'a Pas Grand Monde En Somme)
Alain Monney:
Y'a Personne... (...Y'a Pas Grand Monde En Somme)
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1978
Label:
Cornelia Productions
Studio Damiens (Andy Scott, Luis Clos, Pierre Dobler)
Mosiah
S/T
Mosiah:
S/T
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1979
Label:
Garance/RCA(France)
Bristish Reggae band with seven young kids, including four siblings (I think).
Jean Musy: Clair de Femme OST
Clair de Femme (Costa Gavras)
Jean Musy: Clair de Femme OST:
Clair de Femme (Costa Gavras)
Role:
Assistant
1979
Label:
Barclay
Studio Aquarium/Damiens
Ozzy Osbourne
Ultimate Sin
Ozzy Osbourne:
Ultimate Sin
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1985
Label:
CBS
Vocal overdub sessions in the marble room in Studio Davout. There was an oxygen tank in the recording room, next to the microphone.
Ottawan
Ottawan 2
Ottawan:
Ottawan 2
Role:
Assistant
Format:
LP
1981
Label:
Carrere
Studio Davout.
Ottawan
Help
Ottawan:
Help
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single
1981
Label:
Carrere
Studio Davout.
Jean Louis Pick
Bocal a musique
Jean Louis Pick:
Bocal a musique
Role:
Assistant/Additional Engineering
Format:
LP
1981
Label:
RCA
Studio Davout.
Sheila
Et Ne La Rame`ne Pas - Shaddap Your Face
Sheila:
Et Ne La Rame`ne Pas - Shaddap Your Face
Role:
Assistant (mixing sessions)
Format:
Single
1981
Label:
Carrere
Studio Davout. Mixes pour Carrere.
Taxi Girl
Mannequin
Taxi Girl:
Mannequin
Role:
Assistant
Format:
Single, 12"
1979
Label:
Sonopresse
Studio Aquarium. Their first single, when they were five. I was a big fan of the band and was incredibly excited to have the opportunity to be on the session.
And for a few records more...
AC/DC: For Those About to Rock We Salute You. Aborted sessions.
Marcel Amont: ?
Lucid Beausonge: ?
Patrick Bia: ?
Claude Bolling: Various OSTs
Claude Bolling - Jean Pierre Rampall: ?
Ray Brown: ?
Jean-Roger Caussimon: ?
Harry Chalkitis: ?
Les Compagnons de la Chanson: ?
Annie Cordy: ?
Vladimir Cosma: Various OSTs
Nicolle Croisille: ?
Dalida: ?
George Delerue: Various OSTs
Sacha Distel: ?
L'Echo des Bananes (Live-in-the-studio TV Show, 1982/1983): The Cure, Depeche Mode, Simple minds, Indochine, Rip Rig and Panic, Altered Images, Les Tueurs de la Lune De Miel, The Fleshtones, Virgin Prunes, Level 42, Sapho, etc.
