SAE Magazine 13-3

360 Nashville +++ Legendary producer VornDick Fi CampusNews SAE & SAE ALUMNI NEWS // INTERNATIONAL NEWS “The Mexican was and continues to be a total enigma. I composed it while I was in my last year at the Royal Academy of Music in London where I was studying classical guitar and orchestration. “I put Babe Ruth together to try out my composi- tions. Our sound was a combination of classical music, Motown, Western film scores, and progres- sive rock. “We eventually got signed to Harvest Records, which was also the label for Pink Floyd and Electric Light Orchestra. “The song’s success has been very flattering, and it’s been sampled legally and illegally more times than I know!” Artists that have utilised The Mexican in their pro- ductions include Pete Rock, N.E.R.D, Sugar Ray, R. Kelly, The Prodigy, Helloween, Deekline, and Ghostface Killah. Alan was born in Hatfield, near London, England. In the early 1960sAlan was a guitarist with the band The Juniors (EMI Records), which also included future Rolling Stones’ guitarist Mick Taylor and Jethro Tull’s future bassist John Glascock. After his work with Babe he became a solo songwr His projects have earned nations, and have produc num recordings for such a Loaf, Roger Daltrey, and S Alan has also produced s original score for the 199 music scores for BBC/PB In 1990 Alan emigrated t after presenting productio in Nashville he decided instructor. He has been faculty co- ville’s audio technology seven years. Lynn Dorton, Nashville c Institute USA – named be school in America by Vibe is a natural leader, real popular with our students “A number of our gradua audio engineering careers why they chose SAE o entirely because of their d

SAE Magazine 13-3

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