It was akin to saying ‘I’m going to go to the moon.’” “I didn’t know anyone in the music industry at all,” Susan confesses, “For me to pledge that I would one day mix live sound at The Forum was implausible. Plus, at that precise moment, she was working in the Biomedical field. “He would beat the s#!+ out of me all the time.”
WESTLAKE AUDIO STUDIO MANAGER 1978 FREE
Number one, she would have to become free from an abusive husband. On the night Susan made a promise that she would one day return to The Forum, next time in a working capacity, it was not lost on her that some things would have to change beforehand. “When I saw they included a picture of the engineer, something just clicked in my mind and I thought, ‘That feels right. On the back cover – in addition to the musicians that played on the record – was a photo of recording engineer Stan Ross, co-founder of Gold Star Studios. Maybe a disc jockey.”Īround the age of eight or nine, Susan was gifted Sonny and Cher’s debut album Look at Us. “I was never interested in becoming a singer, songwriter, performer,” explains Susan, “Nor did I have any desire to be a record executive. Moreover, it didn’t take long for her to realize that she wanted to be in the record-making business one day. “Growing up, my allowance and later my babysitting money, all went to buying records,” she says. And when I am, I’m going to be mixing live sound for a band." For the Love of Musicīorn and raised in Southern California, Susan was a passionate record collector from the very beginning. However, before she left the building, she turned, stared into the rafters and made a vow to herself, “Someday I’ll be back here. Thus, she parted ways with her friends and began to stroll toward the exit.
Standing with friends from work among 17,000 some odd others inside The Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, California, she was witnessing true rock royalty Led Zeppelin on what would prove to be their final North American tour.Īlthough she desperately wanted to stay – after all Jimmy, John, John Paul, and Robert comprised one of her most beloved bands at the time - if Susan failed to make the curfew that her husband imposed on her, it would result in yet another beating. As the clock drew closer and closer to 10:30, twenty-year-old Susan Rogers knew that her evening was just about over. It was an early summer night in June 1977. "A REMARKABLE MAN!” Susan Rogers Reflects upon her Lifelong Journey in Music, What it was Like to Watch a ‘Genius at Work,’ and Her Personal Vow to lift up Prince’s Legacy at Every Turn
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