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Robert "Waddy" Wachtel (born May 24, 1947) is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work. Wachtel has worked as session musician for other artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Beth Hart, Stevie Nicks, Kim Carnes, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones (lead guitar on "Saint of Me"), Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Iggy Pop, Warren Zevon, Bryan Ferry ...
Waddy Wachtel - Acoustic Guitar (2, 5) David Williams - Electric Guitar (3, 8, 11) Thom Panunzio - Producer, Engineer, Mixing David Thoener - Mixing and Assistant Producer (2, 9) Bill Kennedy - Engineer, Mixing John Aguto - Assistant Engineer and Mixing Chuck Johnson - Assistant Engineer Kenny Aronoff - Precussion Arrangements Benny Kaufman ...
- “That’ll Be the Day” by Linda Ronstadt from ‘Hasten Down the Wind’ (1976) “When I started doing sessions, producers always told me, ‘Don’t play lead when we’re cutting basics.
- “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon from ‘Excitable Boy’ (1978) “I’m very proud of this song – I co-wrote and co-produced it. Everybody knew it was a terrific song, but for some reason it was one of the hardest rhythm tracks to lay down.
- “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks from ‘Bella Donna’ (1981) “Stevie wrote the song after hearing the Police’s ‘Bring On the Night.’ She was very inspired by the echo-driven guitar track that Andy Summers played, that rolling and repeating kind of sound.
- “Oh Sherrie” by Steve Perry from ‘Street Talk’ (1984) “My dear friend Niko Bolas was engineering the song. He thought it needed a really cool and nasty eighth-note rhythm, so he called me to play on it.
Aug 26, 2013 · Session giant Waddy Wachtel looks back on 11 career-defining records “There was an incredible spirit in the air," says guitarist Waddy Wachtel, looking back on a golden period of time, during the '70s and early '80s, when he and an elite, close-knit group of Los Angeles-based musicians (including drummer Russ Kunkel, bassist Leland Sklar, keyboardist Craig Doerge and guitarist Danny ...
Aug 10, 2020 · Waddy Wachtel: Well, it’s all of the above. A studio can look like a dump, but can sound great. Or, a studio can look beautiful and sound horrible. And there’s combinations of both, where … you look for first of all, the engineer makes the big difference. In there, knowing how to mic things is the whole ball game.
It’s an easy answer: Peter Asher. Ronstadt’s touring band in 1977, with Wachtel (at C) and Gold (2nd from L) “Peter [managed and produced] Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, the two best singers in the country. His concept was, ‘Now that you’ve played on this album and it’s so good, you should tour with the artist so it sounds the same.
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Aug 1, 2024 · Wachtel appears on both recordings. In 1978, again with Zevon, Wachtel worked on the Excitable Boy album. With Zevon he penned the classic "Werewolves of London" and co-produced the album with Jackson Browne. During the early 1980s Wachtel began working with Stevie Nicks after she embarked on a solo career apart from Fleetwood Mac.
