In 1985 my family and I (my wife and three small children) migrated to North Hollywood, CA. I engaged in the trek with the expressed purpose of getting "involved in the music business". Easier said than done. After 4 months of delivering bottled water I was discouraged, to say the least. Debbie, a native of Kansas, wasn't having any part of my discouragement. "You dragged me all the way out here with three little kids. We're not going back!" I guess that settled it.
One morning a call came in to my company's office to set up bottled water service at a new studio in Burbank. I curiously strode into the facility called Take One Studios and met the owner, Steve, a man who looked like he had been awake for three days and was running on empty (which he had been and was). I volunteered to come back that night after I had delivered my bottled water and help. "I can't pay you" Steve was quick to point out. No matter, I had an opening at a recording studio. Little did I know where this would lead...
Since that time I have traveled around the world pusuing my dream of being "involved in the music business". During that pursuit I have worked with Gun-n-Roses, Megadeth, LA Guns, The Screaming Jets (Australia), Bob Dylan and many, many more. It has been exciting, harrowing, mind numbingly boring, and excrucuatingly painful, but it has been the ride of a lifetime. One part of that ride was the two albums I made with Bob Dylan in 1992 and 1993 called "Good As I Been To You" and "World Gone Wrong" respectivly. It is this experience upon which I have based the book.
Micajah Ryan
Kechi, KS
In 1985 my family and I (my wife and three small children) migrated to North Hollywood, CA. I engaged in the trek with the expressed purpose of getting "involved in the music business". Easier said than done. After 4 months of delivering bott... view more
