Hair...and dark in color...AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! That was my first reaction when I saw the vids. That and working with Frank Furino. He preceded Steven Evans on the shows....from about 1975 when Diamond P started as the production company...thru the '77 or '78 season...then Steve. Frank worked full time for Diamond P and was the producer of a number of radio shows for D.P. & Harvey Palash, owner.
It is amazing to look back at that era and realize how simple the shows were at that time. That was primarily due to a function of money....how much was available for production costs. There were some electronic bells and whistles that were out of reach financially at that time....thus the bare bones approach.
The post production was done at a television station in Syracuse NY and we could only work after they signed off the air. That means that on the Thursday after the race...I would receive a wakeup call at about 1:30-2:00 am...go into the studio from the nearby motel...and we would have till 6 am to do the voice over. The editing had bee completed Monday through Wednesday nights. Every show through that era was produced the same way...with John Mullin serving as producer. Like to think we did some pretty good coverage of the race scene...given the restrictions we had.
BTW...thanks to all for the kind words. As I have said before, I feel like the luckiest guy in the world....one that is able to provide for his family and for this time in my life (if the govt. and others would quit screwing around with my savings it would be nice!!!)...doing something for a living that I had done for fun. Kinda describes the perfect job.
Take care and enjoy...it's great to have a chance to relive all of that again.
MaC
