A fellow engineer needs your help!

Moderator Joined: Sep 12, 2002 Posts: 1869 Location: NYC

A good friend of mine and engineer Scott Harding was in a horrible car crash a few weeks ago returning from a studio in a cab. 3 Kids were drag racing and ran a red light and plowed into the side of the cab and then fled the scene, the next morning the car was reported stolen. As a result of the crash, Scott in now paralyzed below the waist. Like a lot of people in the industry, Scott had no health insurance and very little in the bank. All of his friends, fellow engineers, and musicians are pulling together to help raise money for the HUGE bills that are starting to come in as a result of the accident.

Benefit concerts are being organized and below is the first one. If you are in NYC and want to hear some incredible musicians and help someone at the same time, this is the night.

The Scotty Hard Concert, March 19th
Highline Ballroom
461 West 16th Street
New York

Confirmed artists:
John Scofield
John Medeski
Billy Martin
Bill Laswell
Eric Krasno
Neal Evans
Marco Benevento
Joe Russo
Antibalas
Sex Mob
DJ Logic
John Ellis
Michael Blake
Vijay Iyer
Tommy Hamilton
Kevin Kendrick

The date is March 19, you can see further details on the venue web site http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=427. 100% of the gross box office receipts will go to the trust. Tickets are on sale now. We're doing this event entirely non-comp, tickets can be purchased through the outlet specified on the site.

If you can't make the show and want to still help a fellow engineer, you can send a check to:

The Scotty Hard Fund
c/o Heesok Chang
970 Kent Ave #401
brooklyn ny 11205

Any amount will help even if it's $1.

Scott Harding has engineered some great records and worked with incredible artists like MMW, Prince Paul, Wu Tang, Crash Test Dummies, the list is long. I'm sure you either have one of the records he's worked on or heard some on the radio.

Thank you in advance.

RO Admin Joined: Mar 20, 2000 Posts: 4287 Location: Canada

Michael, if you setup a "roclub"... Scotty Hard Fund donation, I will do this...

For the month of March 2008 , I will give all members that donate to this, a one year subscription to the roclub. Its a $20 subscription per year.
Its not a big difference in your RO experience, but its for a good cause here and its cool to support RO as well.

Michael, if you are able to do this, keep track of any recording.org member (RO username) that donates to The Scotty Hard Fund, and, at the end of the month, send me their recording.org usernames, and I will activate their subscription for one year.

hope that helps.

any question just ask...

RO Admin Joined: Mar 20, 2000 Posts: 4287 Location: Canada

PS.

Michael

if this is a go... make sure you setup a link somewhere in this topic where its not conflicting with my "already established" link to the roclub. If members pay me, then I can't donate the funds to you.

Any member that reads this, look for the link to the The Scotty Hard Fund.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:36 am

wow I'm so sorry to hear about that.

the show looks like a KILLER lineup!!!!!!!! i'm sure you guys will do well with it.

good luck to Scott and friends

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:17 pm

Bump.

Moderator Joined: Sep 12, 2002 Posts: 1869 Location: NYC

a paypal account has been setup, any amount will help. We could all be in the same boat. here's the link and thanks again on behalf of Scott.

http://www.scottyhardtrust.com/

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