Time flies.
Back in 1994 I was a punk kid producer working with John R. Gambling on the long-running Rambling with Gambling.
I clearly remember putting together the broadcast for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
We were working on an audio montage. This was back in the days before digital editing. You’d “cart up” all the individual pieces you needed, hit record on the reel to reel and give it a shot.
John was unhappy with the mixes that the engineer made, and with mine.
So he sat down at the board himself and nailed it.
This 24 year old was IMPRESSED. The idea that this guy (John was probably about 44 which is what I am now) could sit down and do this was amazing. I thought he was “just” a host, but JRG told me about his days coming up and how he did a lot of engineering and technical stuff.
So “John R” (as the older folks called him, to differentiate from his father John A. Gambling) nailed the mix and that was the one we went with.
Not the most amazing story, hut I can’t believe it was twenty years ago, and that a lot of the people who were in charge of things when I was cutting my teeth are now retired.