Anthony Wilson does his best to coax the rudiments of record production out of a reluctant Martin Hannett.
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I got as far...
... as 2mins 41secs but had to go to drum up the will to live.
Record production
Not a spectator sport. Bit like architecture.
I disagree
Martin Hannett's attitude reminded me of the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch in the Hi Fi shop ("he doesn't want woofers and tweeters! Bwa-ha-ha-hah"), bit I love the Classic Albums series where a producer breaks down a familiar song, fascinating. I'd pay a lot of money to sit in a studio with the producer of one of my favourite albums.
Agreed
The one on Deep Purple's Machine Head was fascinating, I thought. It brought home something we always suspected really - that the forerunners of the whole headbanging movement that would eventually segue into Spinal Tappery were all brilliant musicians. There's a bit towards the end of this clip (7:50) where Roger Glover, sitting at a mixing desk with the multitrack, isolates Jon Lord's organ and Richie Blackmore's guitar for the intro to "Never Before". What's there isn't proto-heavy metal at all - it's pure funk: not Motorhead but the Meters:
Why aren't Deep Purple as revered as Led Zeppelin? Too many personnel changes too soon, maybe?
Classic albums
Agreed. That's the kind of pop on TV that works since it doesn't try to cover too much in one programme and thereby does it's subject justice.
The Frank Gehry of Rock?
You have a point. But you've got to admire the instinctive way he twirls those knobs and dials. And he's a champion smoker.
The Frank Gehry of Rock?
David Hepworth has a point. But you've got to admire the instinctive way he twirls those knobs and dials. And he's a champion smoker.
Sorry
I had my finger on the digital delay button.
In some awful parallel Hell
this is on a permanent loop.
Er, the Factory thing that is.
( I quite like the Purps ).
The masochistic drive of Tony Wilson never ceases to amaze me
A bloke puts you through that and what do you do? Make a little doll of him, stick pins in it and keep it on your desk, clutching it in moments of stress and saying "Die! Die! Die!"? No, you start a record label and hire him as your house producer.
Agreed
You can see how Mr Hannett got the reputation of being a tad difficult at times. Still, you also get the impression of a man totally immersed in his craft.
Rumours
Isn't that Mick Fleetwood in the studio at the very start of the clip?