https://origin.cdbaby.com/Artist/KevinFMontague
These photos and the recorded sound; took place back in April of 1978. I was a poor struggling scholar attending Loyola University from a California State Scholarship I earned during my high school years. Mixed into the photos are a few photos of me and Norah Copperman who had been my voice trainer for a year.
At age 5, I had asked my mother for piano lessons. While those
never fully came into being during my childhood, my dad did
finally find a way to buy a Wurlitzer piano. However living in an
apartment was not the best environment where I could study
and learn. Always the neighbors where complaining about the
piano being too loud. Imagine that? A piano being too loud? You'd think that is what it is suppoe to do? Be loud I mean? It's to laugh! Why didn't they put ear plugs on while I was practicing? My scales were beautiful though. I had started to learn the guitar at age 15, but my passion was the piano and learning composition, especially band and orchestra.
Getting a late start in life at age 15, I took on music, as a minor to my major, as I entered Loyola University at age 17 and double majored in music by graduation. I had written a number of songs and some light works during those four years. I continued to study on my own, even after graduation in 1978.
The fellow assisting me back then was Kevin L. Norwood who you hear in the sound portion of this presentation. You can find him on IMDB, working at the craft of acting, when he's not doing computer consulting work to support himself. We later roomed together after graduation to help share expenses while we tried to collaborate together; both lyrics and music. Kevin Norwood would teach me about Mowtown and soul music and I would teach him Elton John. Feetwood Mac, the Big band era and classical music. What a combo? (chuckling)
For those of you who have done all night recording sessions, you
know how crazy and demented you can get when you are at it for too many hours. Then there's the getting of fast food to keep you going while the creative work takes place. We had to do an all nighter this one night, because getting recording equipment, even four tracks, back in those days; was not easy. Begging and praying worked very well and money was always in short supply when you are a poor and struggling artist.
Anyway, I found this sound recording lately on one of my reel to reels. For those of you who have been visiting my YouTube channel,
TheAstroboy9 channel; or are catching my ads through Google Adwords; for the songs I wrote back in the 1970's, you may be delighted to know I'm very human, down to Earth and have a good sense of humor, especially when I was always operating on 3 to 4 hours sleep every night back in those days.
My growing artist page can be found at CDbaby these days. Just
look for me at this link:
https://origin.cdbaby.com/Artist/KevinFMontague
Well, this was a light hearted moment between two friends
who were trying to make a go at the music business back in those days. I had written some pretty innovative music back then, but just could not get the break to get me started. It's a long, long story of heartbreaks, starting at my birth.
So, enjoy the photos and the dialogue, then visit my artist page
at CDbaby and make some purchases. Also, you can hear
samples on my YouTube channel, as I keep preparing my originals
from the 1970's for release through CDbaby.
You can also see more of me at my facebook page at the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-F-Montague/100000876688885#!/profile.php...
Kevin F. Montague
Recording Artist
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It was a beautiful and magical time in most ways. I do miss it. People were more likely to help each other, even when you didn't have money, or maybe that was just one of the benefits that come with youth and beauty. Who knows?
TheAstroboy9 1 month ago
Reminds me of the song --- "well I should have been an actor -- but I wound up here"
33commonsenseguy 1 month ago
As you can see Scar Jay, I'm pretty down to Earth, even in spite of the two NDE experiences. I was no less when I was young. Like I said, in my first NDE, I was shown the original plan for my life was to be a celebrity. I had asked for it before being born, but it all went wrong. Anyway, I was always fun to be around, even when I was young. We had a blast that night! (lol) Some really nice songs came out of sessions, like this one, which are now on my CDbaby artist page for sale... finally.
TheAstroboy9 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos