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On 01/01/89 Chris was now with Phantom Productions, Inc. full time
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01/01/89 - 7:30 pm meet with Folk singer Linden Sherwin |
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February 11, 1989 Chris & Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skull Duggery - MORE INFO & VIDEO
Chris, Martin signing contract with Metal Band Skullduggery - MORE INFO & VIDEO
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Skullduggery Austin Recording Studio MORE INFO & VIDEO
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09/19/89 Chris and Martin at Austin Recording Studio with thei rmetal band Skull Duggery
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After months of meetings and with the help of ACC Board member Gilbert Martinez we got traction. In July 1989 ACC released the A.A.S. Commercial Management Program Application for Approval.
By that point the ad-hoc group had grown and included the folks on this page. The Austin Music Commission passed a resolution supporting the ACC program's creation (draft).
It took several
years and lots of help from others. ACC said if ten students showed up for the
first class, they would continue the program. Thirty-eight registered and additional
classes had to be created. It became a reality in the Summer of 1988
and regular classes began in 1989.
Here's some additional ACC Commercial Music management evolution pages.
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08/05/89 Chris at sound check in San Antonio with Phantom's Skull Duggery - view video clips
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Chris, Martin & Phantom UK's John Cambridge, wife Joan and Joan's mother • More John Cambridge & Mark Luke Daniels UK tracks
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March 16, 1989 Chris, Martin with Canadian record execs, Andy Murphy, David & Sheila case (Phantom UK Directors) and Mark Luke with friend Benny.
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031689 David Case & Sheila SXSW
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Billboard's 1989 profile of Austin |
Phantom Trademark approved January 27,1989
Phantom Productions, Inc. video editing
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On 05/06/89 Phantom produced a video for Rusty Weir's birthday at the Backyard booked by Sandy Edwards
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051389 C&M to Seattle & Portland |
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06/21/89 Dallas for DHS, Chris & Carol, Blackeyed Pea |
06/27/89 Martin Reg 03/12 El Paso DHS Ruidosa retreat & Chris flew into El Paso to join
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Martin & Chris with Peggy & family |
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051389 C&M to Seattle & Portland
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06/21/89 Dallas for DHS, Chris & Carol, Blackeyed Pea |
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July 22, 1989 Chris and Martin on Town Lake at K98 River Raft Race
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1989 Aqua Fest Jet Ski Races |
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09/20/89 MLD back to LA & ACC 6 pm Ballooning class
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On August 31,1989 Chis' Mum passed away
Isabella Pretsell Maule Miller
Born 28 Apr 1902 Summerford, Cameron, Falkirk, Scotland
Died 31 August 1989 Haverhill Suffolk, UK
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Mum, Anthony & Ken
Mum with siblings
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Dinner last night before heading home 1985. Martin's Mom, Peter, Sheila, Lynn, Mum, Chris & Martin
Chris & Mum visiting Walter who used to work at the family's Cuckoo Tye Farm
Mum, Holly & Roe
Chris, Mum, Lynn and Sheila
Peter, Sheila, Mum & Chris
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You never know! In 1989 I wanted to give my wife Chris, a hot air balloon ride. Something she'd expressed interest in after we were married. Luckily I found it was too expensive. Why luckily? Instead I registered her in an Austin Community College class about crewing for hot air balloons. Had I just bought her a single flight, that would have probably been the end of it.
Surreptitiously, the ACC class on September 1, 1989, was taught by Dan Sherrill (left)l who owned Railroad BarBQ. Dan had catered our wedding. He gave me permission to videotape his presentation as a gift to Chris and the class. After the class, Dan asked if we would work with him to develop a training tape for hot air balloon events enabling them to quickly train new beginner crew volunteers. The video "From the Ground Up" was produced and continues to be used by ballooning events around the world.
Dan then hired Chris and I to document other ballooning events which he coordinated. Chris and I would trade off flying (videotaping from the air), or riding with crew on the ground to reflect the full process.
The events we documented included: Harris Branch in Austin; and events in Mesquite, Giddings, Poteet, Ft. Worth, Alpine and other Texas locations. Two Maryland Preakness ballooning events in 1991 and 1992. A magical 10 day ballooning event in Guanajuato, Mexico. As the result of those productions, we were hired by a third party to document the Kodak Joint Services Andrews Air Force Base Air Show and hot air balloon races.
When we visited Chris' family back in England, we used the occasion to document the Cameroon and Thunder & Colt hot air balloon factories.
All these video are available free on YouTube.
Chris and I estimate that we each received about 40 hot air balloon flights and were paid to do so. This is a video of our very first flight on February 11, 1990 over Austin. There have been a lot of changes in Austin and also restrictions on where hot air balloons fly. We were very fortunate to fly when we did. We met an incredible number of wonderful folks, especially the ones in the Central Texas Hot Air Ballooning Association!
Serendipity!
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10/20/89 Bob Hays moved out of his office
Martin exited the Texas Department of Human Resources in May, 1990 after 22 years with the State of Texas (note smile on Martin's face). Bob Hays (left, former Director of Staff Dev for DHS), Martin & Chris (right)
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092489 video interview with John Cambridge on back deck, Doobie Bros 092589 Peter Butcher begins work for ACC |
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092689 Skull D Aus Rec Studio, edit Rotel
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101989 DHS reorganizing (again)
102089 Bob Hays moved out of his office
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November 1989 Anne and daughter Karen visiting. Chris and Martin showed them around Austin, met Mark Luke and took them to South Fork Ranch (Karen rt) outside Dallas to see the location for filming the "Dallas" TV show which they loved.
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Chris with Anne and Karen at South Fork Ranch |
Chris and Martin took Anne and Karen to see a band at the La Zona Rosa. Chris saw Billy Gibbons come into the club and asked Karen if she'd like to meet the ZZTop player. Yes! Chris and Karen went over and Billy was great. They came back to their table and Karen said "who's ZZTop?"
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While touring Anne and Karen around Texas, Chris and Martin received a call from David Case. David said he'd pay their way to the UK if they'd come assist him demonstrating the Intelligent Light software. It would be on the HP stand at the computer conference being held at Alexandra Pallace in London.
It was a difficult decision as Anne and Karen were making probably their only visit to Texas. Mark Luke agreed to be their guide for their last few days and Chris and Martin headed to the UK. They caught up with Anne and Karen in Sudbury during their trip.
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November 5, 1989 at 2:27 Chris and Martin left for the UK. They worked with David 11/06/89 to 11/09/89. 11/09/89 London - fish & chips
Chris and Martin working with Phantom's UK Director David Case at London Alexandria's Palace for HP Apollo demonstrations - view video clip
more about London's Alexandria's Palace and the BBC |
Chris & Martin helped David Case represent Intelligent Light Animation systems on the Apollo computers at the Hewlett Packard display booth at Alexandria Palace, London, UK. David pursued IL representation after Chris & Martin recommended he look at the Wavefront animation systems. He subsequently secured the IL account. View International space station flyer from David's company.
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Chris and Martin working with Phantom's UK Director David Case in Bristol, UK - David's Phantom intro
11/16/89 David Case's Birth Day - Shopped for gift
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UK Phantom Director David Case received an offer to brand this auto with the Phantom logo and name. Proposal video
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11/10/89 Chris and Martin drove to Sudbury and Acton
11/12/89 Lynn & Sheila - Bury St Edmunds |
David had a friend who offered to let Chris ride her horse in Milton Keynes |
111789 D Case met with Steve /Sony re computers (DCase UK Atomic Energy) - Worked on Phantom Animation (Intelligent Light)
111889 Listened to John’s recording - Chris rode home with Elaine & Peter - barn - 111989 CM Return from UK - MLD picked us up - Anthony
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112389 Thanksgiving in Austin - Peggy, John, Sally, Don, Jim Cheryl, Bud, Elsie 112489 CM took Elsie & Bud to Lake Travis, Mt Bunnell - the to see MLD in Round Rock - |
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Click this link to view more about David Perkoff Music |