Biography
Brent Alan Beck, musician from Los Angeles CA is known for Music Production, Business Advise, Song Advise, Creative Advise, Electric Guitars, Bass, Programmed Drums, Keyboards. Born in Encino, CA. Also Brent Beck, Missing Link, Missing Link Us. Recorded Christmas In Hawaii receiving radio airplay upon KROQ, KXLU, & KCRW. Featured on CBS/Sony Records Walter Egan The Lost Album. Played Rhythm Guitar on Jan Berry CD Second Wave produced by Robert Kuropatwa. Studied Songwriting with Roger, "It's My Life" Atkins of Screen Gems. Guitar with Berton Averre of The Knack. Studied with Billy Steele of Steve Perry album, Street Talk. James Snodgrass of Bangles, Super 300 Blues Band. Stanley T. Stichel, Lead Guitarist & Vocalist. Jack Sherman, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Four Song EP Since You've Left Us Behind:
In nineteen eighty seven major label artist Walter Egan, agreed to produce four songs in a recording studio in hopes these newly recorded songs would gain radio airplay. Four songs were recorded in forty hours of studio time on sixteen tracks at the Studio Suite in Glendale CA. spending one thousand dollars.

For the lead vocal, Walter Egan used a technique he always wanted, a tape slap instead of reverb for Christmas In Hawaii stating, "Elvis Presley used this technique for Elvis Presley records." The fact that the singing was not on pitch was an obstacle to be overcome if using either a reverb or a tape slap? At the last scheduled recording session set for mixing the songs, Walter Egan said, "I have an idea first." He added the harmony vocals on the third verse of the song Christmas In Hawaii . His singing was so focused he became unaware of the time this was using for the final and only mixing session.

At the actual recording session drummer Jim Snodgrass forgot to put his snare drum in his car trunk resulting that there were over-dubbed drum, tom's, on top of drum machine tom tracks, but not over-dubbed snare drum, resulting in a very compromised effort to what the recording was supposed to sound like. A drum machine snare drum with no over dub.

All of these four songs previously had been played live by the band Missing Link featuring drummer Greg Mennie, Bass player Donna Worden, Guitarist Ken Tennesen, and Guitarist & Vocalist Thad Francis.

When for purely logistic sake Walter Egan's band members were utilized in the studio instead of the live & well rehearsed players of the Missing Link those Missing Link musicians were a bit disappointed. We played back and listened to the Walter Egan produced songs in the hallway of my house where we rehearsed. They vocalized how they wanted to be on the recordings instead of Walter Egan's musician's utilized.

These four songs comprising an EP was to be titled Since You've Left Us Behind. Walter Egan did not like the title though, and argued against it, so a four song Eponymous recording was promoted & released instead of Since You've Left Us Behind, released July 1, 1987.

Years After Since You've Left Us Behind EP:
Soon after Since You've Left Us Behind was released, drummer Greg Mennie decided to leave the Missing Link taking his drum kit out of our rehearsal space & living room to set up & join the brother of Bobbi Brat, named Mike who had an actual made for recording studio built in his own house so that Greg could keep his drums set up there. Bobbi Brat eventually developed and then died of cancer.

Missing Link bassist Donna Worden and Brent played a few acoustic gatherings with only the both of them that Donna recorded. "I just like to keep the tape running." They wanted to be a visionary styled band and produced by Jimmy Iovine who produced Tom Petty among other pro label artists. But they could not find a drummer to play for the Missing Link and eventually stopped getting together. Then a close friend whom we all had spent time with got stricken by Hodgkin's Disease Cancer. All the things that were going in a forward direction for the Missing Link were put out of an engaged gear into neutral. We took turns when needed driving her to then USC County Hospital.

Walter Egan in nineteen eighty-eight had gone on producing and recording to create some prominent achievements during the time this simultaneously was going on, him writing a great movie soundtrack for Back To The Beach starring Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello plus nine other as yet to be released songs about beach life and changing times then. Eddie Money unfortunately for our fame sake then, was instead chosen as the performer of the main movie title of the Back To The Beach rather than Walter Egan. Walter Egan then started playing and recording with both Sara Fleetwood and the renown rock group, Spirit, Walter contributed songs of his own that Spirit performed live during his time on bass. Walter Egan further later became featured in the critically acclaimed movie, Boogie Nights. Over a decade had passed since Brent Beck first meeting Walter Egan in nineteen eighty three & the time span that led to Boogie Nights. Professional anticipation of getting again major label attention.

Further Bio: Missing Link: United States
Label: Muted Piano Keys Music
Bio: "Making a musical recording or performance is a lot like a play. Learn your instrument parts & then integrate your sounds. These 4-track recording's here, consist mainly of two guitar and vocal. Anyone else can add a bass, keyboard, drum parts, or a proper vocal, as they please! My writing consisting of metered verse, songwriting, & a music library catalog from nineteen seventy seven until present.

"While working with Walter Egan in the eighties, was fortunate enough to get some enormous tips from the late Randy California of the r'n'r group, Spirit. Many notes shared from Randy, such as Jimi Hendrix used to tune his guitar to the key of, "C." Also, that the "Spirit sound is mainly achieved by plugging the guitar into a bass amplifier instead of a guitar amplifier." At Walter Egan's The Lost Album Sessions, Randy California played his Jackson guitar for the lead on a Walter Egan song called, "Invisible Man." Randy California also expressed his advice about preparation for performing stating, "Turn on" for the stage and then "turn off" when leaving. Randy also insisted to always warm up before a performance with scales & finger exercises. Photos found on compact disc Walter Egan The Lost Album, on the Renaissance label.

In nineteen eighty, while in high school Brent Beck worked in a road crew for the Robbie Rist Band who performed frequently at the Troubador, Hollywood. Touring, Robbie Rist opened for Jamie James' Kingbees, Brian Wild & Livewire/B. Wild, Robbie Krieger of the Doors for the Helena Springs Band.

The Missing Link played and performed with members listed above from 1986 to 1988.

The Quest played together from 1988 to 1991. Members of The Quest: Jim Stokes, Lead Guitar; Bob Stokes, Bass Guitar; Thaddeus M. Francis, Lead Vocalist & Guitar; Rick Casono, Drums; Brent Alan Beck, Guitar.

Brent Alan Beck in 1991 started playing live solo performances in Los Angeles, CA at places such as: The Central/Viper Room, Music Machine, Our House, 8121 Club, The Troubadour, Be-bop Records, Natural Fudge Company, 14 Below, & various other venues.

Brent Beck musical instruction with:
Vocal instruction, Gloria Bennett,
Singing Instruction, Kathy Ellis,
Singing Instruction, Mike Campbell,
Singing Instruction, Seth Riggs-Helen of Wilson/Phillips.
Guitar Instruction, Chuck Holden, Ted LaBash.
Keyboard Instruction, Dennis Haggerty
Valley College, Vocal Instruction Sound Engineering Mike Julian
Pierce College, Musical Study

Further a More Detailed Personal Music Biography of Brent Alan Beck:
"I am told my Grandmother on my mother's side, was a piano player. My Granddad born in 1888, Knoxville TN. The family spans from the Ozark Mountains area. My own mother had her go at wonderful piano playing, where I would watch her playing, me being knee high, starting in about 1966 or so. She used to have composer bust's, that were about the size of salt shaker's on the piano, I especially remember Beetohven & Bach. I asked her; even way back then somehow; if she wrote her own material. So she used perform a song of her own she called, The Train Song. I learned about what piano run's were, being similar to guitar patterns or guitar scales & a few other things."

Brent's mother would play the piano so hard, this resulting from her personal struggles that she'd break the piano strings inside the piano, whereby Brent Beck named his publishing company, Muted Keys Music BMI/ASCAP.

They used to have chorus in school, and in the 4th grade a harmonica was given him as a gift & he learned the songs in the songbook especially Alphabet Song, identically called, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. To Brent this was a valuable songwriting lesson for defining what songwriting is, he realized years later. Being intrigued how both songs of different words consisted of an exact same melody. He played the harmonica in front of the class in the 5th grade for show & tell. To this day he never learned how to play chords on a harmonica, only notes. Many tunes that Brent Beck write's revolve around major scales, not as much blues scales.

Brent Beck as young as five years old also learned guitar on a Rickenbacher copy, labeled "Ryder" kept by his family in their linen closet playing Deep Purple's, Smoke On The Water and also plucking out on the high strings, Aerosmiths, Dream On.

His dad took him took to a guitar store in nineteen seventy six. Now, Be-Bop Records, Reseda. He was in the eight grade and also started writing metered verse. He started composing that year using that both guitars.

"Playing the guitar was so intimidating though, that I favored, writing verse instead. So I had a lot of verse from the 8th grade, on. I, later, put a lot of that verse to music. Songs that exist to this day. I had original songs in the tenth grade, if not sooner. In the 11th grade I became a roadie for the Robbie Rist Group. I had also been attending concerts for a while then, saw the Beach Boys now famed 77' New Years show. Being with Robbie Rist gave me an exciting inside look on the stuff and magic, happening in the late nineteen seventies when sixties music was making a small revival being comparable to some few New Wave bands. Magic is a good & applicable word to describe that whole thing. You cannot walk out of your house at any given year by chance and find the same music being performed. Those live shows were incredible. They were so, incredible, that I was, so intimidated, that I wouldn't show my music or metered verse to anyone, or especially some of the professional acts that Robbie Rist opened up for then. I finally did share those poems & verse.

The year immediately after he graduated high school his mother obtained ovarian cancer. His mother lived with ovarian cancer for two years.

Brent Beck wrote the words to Christmas in Hawaii in Moorpark, CA in nineteen eighty two. In nineteen eighty five, put music to it. "The result was for the first time, objectively to my ear, that this music demands to be heard by someone else other than friends or neighbors."

The track was later recorded by & produced by Columbia records artist Walter Egan.