Attendees got to look, listen, learn and even perform with Alan Parsons at the action-packed Master Class Training Session on July 22-23 at the prestigious Village Studios in Los Angeles.

The two-day event was based around the recording of a brand new song Do You Live At All< from Alan Parsons and writing partners P.J. Olsson and Guy Erez.

Level 3 MASTER CLASS TRAINING SESSION with Alan Parsons announced for Los Angeles, July 22-23, 2011

At time of writing, all our fingers and toes are crossed here in Santa Cruz as local boy-making-good James Durbin slugs it out in the final stages of Fox’s 2011 season of American Idol.

James is featured in Alan Parsons Art & Science Of Sound Recording ‘Vocals’ section in a scene filmed in 2008 at the Bay Area’s Ex'pression College.

Dateline: May 10th 2011

The first in a series of live studio training events with Alan Parsons was held at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús (UNLA) in Buenos Aires on Thursday May 5th.

A concept initially explored by one of Argentina’s leading online music retailers Olimusic, the Master Class Training Session was timed to coincide with Alan Parsons Live Project tour dates in Argentina and Chile in early May and is sponsored by Argentinean distributors Sound Pro Latin America.

Dateline: May 5th 2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The first in a series of live-in-the-studio training events with Alan Parsons is being held at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús (UNLA) in Buenos Aires on Thursday May 5th.

Dateline April 1st, 2011: No, it’s not an April Fool. Within the first few seconds on the first Ask Alan! Webcast on March 31st hundreds of fingers were on refresh and we officially crashed!

After a few minutes to reboot and apply cold compresses the Webcast got underway and for the next two hours Alan Parsons fielded questions direct on the site, from Twitter and from Facebook. One of two questions even came in on Twitter from Japan in Kanji but we didn’t quite have the ability to relay those!

Dateline Feb 16th 2011: 11-time Grammy Award nominee Alan Parsons was proudly featured on The Adam Carolla Show last week. Ace
and Jim Ladd on CBS.

Alan Parsons and the Keyfax production crew were equally blown away by James when he was filmed at Expression College in 2008 for the Recording Vocals section of ASSR.

Dateline Feb 10th 2011: Fox rocked on Wednesday night as Santa Cruz singer James Durbin blew away the American Idol judges on the final night of local auditions before the ‘Hollywood’ stage of the 2011 season begins.

Alan Parsons and the Keyfax production crew were equally blown away by James when he was filmed at Expression College in 2008 for the Recording Vocals section of ASSR.

Dateline Jan 19th 2011: Complete with new T-shirts, booth babes, celebrity visitors, and appearances varying from awards presenter to guitarist, Alan Parsons and the A.S.S.R. team rocked at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim this year.

There were regular signing and meet ‘n’ greet sessions on the booth, with Alan signing everything from copies of the DVD, to T-shirts, to vinyl copies of Dark Side Of The Moon.