Its mentioned that Uncle Joe got recording time at Mayfair due to your working there. What were the circumstances that led to the band recording “Stop, Look To Listen” at the studio?
[Neal Teeman] “Around 1967 I started to work part time in a recording studio (Century Sound). While there I became friendly with Jay and the Americans (note – I was friendly with Marty Kupersmith and Kenny Vance). In 1970 while I was in my senior year of HS JATA got a big record deal and leased Mayfair Studios. They hired me to be their engineer (no I was not a clean-up boy there or at any other studio ever!!!!) and I worked there Mon thru Fri, from 3 to 11pm with them (for $5/hr). Part of the deal I had with them was that I could use the studio for my own stuff whenever JATA were not using it. (BTW, at that time JATA were recording a couple of songwriters they were using as the keyboard player and bass player for their backup band–Donald Fagen and Walter Becker aka Steely Dan). I used to set up the room so Uncle Joe could rehearse and I’d let the tape roll without anybody at the controls. That is how we did those tapes. We later dubbed in the vocals but Stan would just put something
