The Music Producers Series: Phil Spector

[Gabe]

From when I started in the business thirty years ago, everyone always had stories of how crazy he was.

The guys at A&M studios told me that when he came there to work for a weekend, he wanted them to move the restroom next to the studio. Of course this was impossible. When they came in on Monday, they found that he had been using the microphone room next to the studio as a restroom.

Several of my friends have told me stories of him pulling guns on them.

I was friends with an ex-girlfriend of his. One night, she and Leonard Cohen went to Spectors for a party. When they wanted to leave he shot out her tires so they would stay.

When that girl got shot, everyone was surprised something like that hadn't happened sooner.