Peter McIan
Peter McIan
I just found out that someone that I worked with on the first Big Deal major label thing I ever did (The City – Chrysalis 1986), has passed. Peter was the producer on the first two big “Men At Work” records, and was part of many different projects and had written a lot of songs for other artists etc, and was even an artist himself. With The City Peter put the band together, wrote most of the material, and produced the album, as well as playing all the keys on it.
After The City had passed, Peter and I stayed in touch over the years, he went into software development, writing and a few other things, and I continued knocking around LA as a player, and we would get together now and then for different things, with the last time I saw him being out in Colorado, where he came out to a thing I was on and we got together a coupla times on that trip. He wasn’t in physically great shape at that point, but was still able to get around pretty well and come hang at the gig etc, and it was fun to see him again.
I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this, that record was at the time a very big deal for me, and I learned a lot from that experience, and Peter was a very talented and extremely intelligent guy, like all of us had his foibles and such, but I think he was at basis a good person, and I have generally good memories of him.
Anyway, as we all know, it’s pretty weird when someone you have history with and knew pretty well passes, even when you haven’t had much recent contact….I didn’t see that one coming today, thought I’d put in my 2 cents for the moment.