zoom club":29th44u6 said:
Cool
Was unaware of this. I'll buy it.
Have been listening to candy-o lately for some weird reason. The production intrigues me.
Dangerous Type is ridiculous.
I agree 100%. Roy tHomas Baker is one of my fave producers.......sort of a long story, but I was called in to produce a band in the late 90s, very new wavey sounding band with a female lead vocalist who was kinda like Blondie.....it was a big deal, with RCA fronting the money, and we had two months recording time blocked out at freaking ELECTRIC LADY STUDIOS in NYC.......
now, I'm pretty much a nobody.......the main songwriter and keyboard guy for this band graduated from my college, and we were friends, so that's how i ended up in the producers chair at Electric Lady spending RCA's money
first thing i did was i told them to shut off the pro tools rig and fire up the 24 track analog machines. the engineers thought i was crazy. but i had a PLAN......
we hired a REALLY good engineer, who happens to be Ric Ocasek's engineer. Once we started laying down tracks, every day before we started recording, I would play "Candy-O" through the studio monitors. We listened to that album EVERY DAY.
i told the engineer i wanted him to think like Roy Thomas Baker. we slammed that analog tape so hard it probably wanted to cry. but that's how you get that sound. with analog tape, you can hit it hard and get that analog crunch, especially on the drums.
after a month of tracking, all the dudes that worked at the studio were ecstatic about how GOOD it sounded. funny that.......you turn off the pro tools, you have a band that has been rehearsing for months and knows their tracks COLD......and all of a sudden, you have a great sounding project.
it was probably the greatest and the worst project of my life. after two months of tracking, it sounded INCREDIBLE. and i knew every one of those tracks intimately.
but of course, the label people at RCA were kinda worried that i was a "nobody"....and a couple of the other band members were getting antsy, and had people telling them they needed a "name" producer.......so eventually, they hired some big name dude, who literally came in and gave them a "perfunctory" mix, and the project just sounded.......typical and flat.
all those tracks I had spent two months tracking.....getting these AWESOME analog sounds.......and some name producer dude comes in and gives it a quick mix, and it's over.......RCA ended up dropping the band, and hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time down the shitcan.
that's rock n roll for ya....
