Emerick - Magic Alex? TO #57

LeedyGuy · Post by **LeedyGuy** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:03 am

Who is this Magic Alex that has been referred to a few times in the Geoff Emerick interview in TapeOp 57?

Anyone? 12 speaker control rooms? wtf?

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:15 am

Magic Alex was basically a hanger-on to the Beatles, who according to most accounts I've seen, over-promised and under-delivered pretty much habitually.

He must have been fun to hang out with, though....

LeedyGuy · Post by **LeedyGuy** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:25 am

Ah! Thanks for that. Wow. That makes that part of the interview that much more informative and entertaining! Thanks again.

-Ken

BrianK · Post by **BrianK** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:53 pm

He was a close friend of theirs for a while in the late '60s. He is not as useless as legend has made him out to be. He had an electronics repair business before he met the Beatles. BUT he had very very ambitious ideas (usually based on other people's work) and told the Beatles he could do them. On almost all occasions, they didn't become reality.

Alexis Mardas is his real name - I hear stories that someone has written a book for him; he also sold quite a few things at auction a few years ago, and rumours he may be very ill.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:36 am

I keep waiting for TapeOp to interview him, actually. Maybe for an April Fools' issue.

baronvon · Post by **baronvon** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:46 pm

He's mentioned quite a bit in Mr. Emerick's book Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. Not really any great things to say about "Magic Alex." Anyhow, it's a great read and a great insight by the engineer that worked on so many great tunes.

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:46 am

dwlb wrote:I keep waiting for TapeOp to interview him, actually. Maybe for an April Fools' issue.

Man, that would be awesome!

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:29 am

cgarges wrote:
dwlb wrote:I keep waiting for TapeOp to interview him, actually. Maybe for an April Fools' issue.
Man, that would be awesome!

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

Thank you.

inflatable · Post by **inflatable** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:06 pm

kentothink wrote:Who is this Magic Alex that has been referred to a few times in the Geoff Emerick interview in TapeOp 57?

Anyone? 12 speaker control rooms? wtf?

It is 2007, and we still haven't figured out how to Google?

For Christ's sake, his Wikipedia article is the first listing!

LeedyGuy · Post by **LeedyGuy** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:50 pm

inflatable wrote:
kentothink wrote:Who is this Magic Alex that has been referred to a few times in the Geoff Emerick interview in TapeOp 57?

Anyone? 12 speaker control rooms? wtf?
It is 2007, and we still haven't figured out how to Google?

For Christ's sake, his Wikipedia article is the first listing!

Sorry about that. I was just thinking that I wasn't the only person wondering and we could have a little discussion about this guy.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:51 pm

kentothink wrote:
inflatable wrote:
kentothink wrote:Who is this Magic Alex that has been referred to a few times in the Geoff Emerick interview in TapeOp 57?

Anyone? 12 speaker control rooms? wtf?
It is 2007, and we still haven't figured out how to Google?

For Christ's sake, his Wikipedia article is the first listing!
Sorry about that. I was just thinking that I wasn't the only person wondering and we could have a little discussion about this guy.

What do you think this is, a messageboard?

LeedyGuy · Post by **LeedyGuy** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:10 pm

dwlb wrote:
kentothink wrote:
inflatable wrote:
kentothink wrote:Who is this Magic Alex that has been referred to a few times in the Geoff Emerick interview in TapeOp 57?

Anyone? 12 speaker control rooms? wtf?
It is 2007, and we still haven't figured out how to Google?

For Christ's sake, his Wikipedia article is the first listing!
Sorry about that. I was just thinking that I wasn't the only person wondering and we could have a little discussion about this guy.
What do you think this is, a messageboard?

Heh....I thought it was....

Either way, I learned something.

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:50 pm

of course these days, the Wikipedia entry is the first google listing for just about everything.....

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