EP 04 - Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends: Val Garay

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07/22/18 • 61 min

In Episode 4 of ‘Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends’ our host spends an hour with friend and super producer/engineer Val Garay at Aftermaster Studios in Hollywood. Garay is nine time Grammy nominated producer and winner of 1982’s record of the year with “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes. Val has garnered over 100 Gold & Platinum records. He was also the owner and designer of the renown L.A. 1980’s recording room, ‘Record One Studios’, where numerous hit albums were made before it was sold to Ocean Way Studios in 1988.

He has worked with The Motels, Mr. Big, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Burdon, Dolly Parton, Pablo Cruise, James Taylor, Queensryche, Neil Diamond, Dramarama, EZO, Ringo Starr, Linda Ronstadt, Sarah Brightman, Katrina, Nicolette Larson, Kenny Rogers, Santana, Reel Big Fish, Joan Armatrading and many others.

Kosh and Val discuss his San Francisco upbringing with a famous father, going from artist to engineer to super producer, making hit after hit owning the premiere studio in 80’s L.A. and still living the dream as an in demand producer.

Learn more about Val Garay and what he is doing at the moment here: http://www.valgaray.com

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EP 03 - Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends: Aaron Rapoport

In Episode 3 of ‘Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends’ our host invites long time collaborator Aaron Rapoport to Aftermaster Studios in Hollywood to discuss their years of working together. Rapoport is an American photographer, best known for his photographs of musicians. In a career that spans over three decades, Rapoport has photographed in a wide variety of areas including commercial photography, but his work in album covers is particularly well known.

Kosh and friend Aaron dive into some uncharted territory, like where is Cher’s tattoo exactly? Lots’ o fun with REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronyn. The real story of the flight case featured on “Eagles Live ‘80”. The two do get serious as they discuss working on the Lynyrd Skynyrd album, “Street Survivors” just before the infamous plane crash. A must hear to believe.

Aaron is still a working photographer based in Los Angeles.

Check out his work here: http://www.aaronrapoport.com

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EP 05 - Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends: Henry Diltz

Episode 5 of ‘Art of Rock with Kosh & Friends’ finds Henry Diltz in conversation with Kosh. While they have known each other for decades they only worked together once, but crossed paths constantly with similar clients.

Henry Diltz is a legendary photographer and musician active since the 1960’s. He is famous for capturing the laidback Laurel Canyon scene of the early 1970’s, the cover of The Doors album, ‘Morrison Hotel’ and the Woodstock music festival, where he was dubbed the “official photographer”. He got his professional start meeting the Monkees, photographing them and actually playing on a few of their tracks.

First recognized as a musician for the Modern Folk Quartet, where he began shooting pictures of the group to shooting album covers for James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James and The Eagles, Desperado albums, as well as over 200 others.

Henry is still working and is co-founder of the Morrison Hotel Gallery (Los Angeles, Maui, New York). Check out his new exhibit “Listening Through the Lens: The Music Photography of Henry Diltz at NAMM’s Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad California, now through October 28th, 2018. Details here: https://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/exhibits/diltz

More on Henry: http://www.henrydiltz.com/

Buy Henry's Photos: https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/default.aspx

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