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First Vinyl Record Release 1984

In 1983, Richard O'Connor lived out of his van for the entire year, saving enough money to release his first 12" Vinyl Album, Temptation, in 1984.

I had recently finished designing and building FUTURE DISC MASTERING LABS in Hollywood, California. From 1975 to 1985 I specialized in customized cabinetry and remodeling for recording studios in southern Caliornia. I built speaker cabinets, consoles, rack mounts...My engineer "lost" one of our 1/2" mix masters at Capitol Records, so we had to scramble and EQ another master of the song, "We're Not Working Out," at Future Disc.

During the 1980s and 1990s Shaolin Records mostly manufactured cassettes. We promoted and sold to college audiences. Our record distributor went out-of-business and we lost money and product. We still have a few of those first vinyl record pressings from 1984. I'm saving them for auctions now.

The cassingle, "It's Your Shadow," did well in College Radio.

The soundtrack, "Coyote In A Graveyard," was mixed and ready for Spielberg at Soundcastle Studios. Engineer Darrin Prindle did a great job final tracking and mixing this rock opera.

Then Coyote left for Utah.

The flyer from Coyote In A Graveyard ROCK OPERAS was transformed for Coyote's Utah purposes.

This first year became the inspiration for Coyote's first album, LEVEL 1 = PEACE OF MIND with 11 songs and 11 poems.