RIP Producer Jim Steinman. He lived life like a Bat Out of Hell.

Used to hang upstairs in Tony Bon Jovi’s apartment at Power Station. You can imagine. Jim was there a lot. One night he says he needs 200 tracks to do this song he’s working on. Yeah, sure. But he’s Jim. So next day the guys at the studio bring in maybe 8 or 9 Otari 24-tracks and hook them all together. They fill the control room and go out into the hall. Cables everywhere. Give a challenge like that to studio engineers and they eat it up. It never exactly worked. Getting all those machines to run in sync, just the mechanics of it all. Jim tells me he only uses maybe thirty tracks in the end. But I loved the craziness. He never let anything stand in the way of his vision. Sometimes I think crazy was the point. But you have to love a guy like that. RIP.