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uk03878
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Joe Meek recording the Honeycombs foot stomping - "Have I the Right" - idea then nicked by the Dave Clark Five
Done in his recording studio - aka a flat above a shop in Archway, "Norf" London
The foot stomping is actually - foot stomping on the wooden floorboards
The cliched gated snare sound - I despise it - and all came about because of actually having a vicious talkback compressor on the SSL desk - with Hugh Padgham accidentally pressing the talkback button with a Phil Collins Drum Track playback on a Peter Gabriel song... lo and behold - the 1980s gimmick was born
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Fri, 01 April 2005 08:46 |
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| Bob Olhsson wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 08:26 |
| uk03878 wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 07:06 |
Joe Meek recording the Honeycombs foot stomping - "Have I the Right" - idea then nicked by the Dave Clark Five...
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Meek, of course, had nicked the idea from Bob Crewe who had used foot stomps on the Four Seasons records. A lot of the Motown sound traces back to Crewe's influence. ...
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Bob, I'm so glad you mentioned Bob Crewe. I have intended for a couple of weeks now to mention him in this very thread. A tremendous, quality recordist and influencer!
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Sat, 02 April 2005 11:19 |
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| Dan Kennedy wrote on Sat, 12 March 2005 18:28 |
Right now I'm listenning to "Steam Powered Aereoplane" by John Hartfrod, produced by David Bromberg.
Whatever happenned to Bromberg? Did the best up-tempo bluegrassy folky druggy shit ever...
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He dropped out of the music business back in the late 80s and went to school to learn to build violins. He still plays occasionally, but now his main gig is as owner of an amazing violin shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Apparently he's considered THE expert on American-made violins (which he jokes is a dubious distinction!).
http://www.davidbromberg.net/home.html
Here's a cool article about his store:
http://www.out-and-about.com/article.php?articleID=102&p ageID=166&sequence=1
Strangely enough, he doesn't seem to have a website for the store!
Cheers, Tim (who sings "Sharon" with his band)
http://www.moodswingers.org
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Sat, 02 April 2005 11:26 |
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tarmadilo
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I listened to a lot of albums late at night through a set of Pickering headphones back when I was a kid in the early 70s, here a few amazing sounding records that haven't been mentioned yet:
Simon and Garfunkle - Three amazing albums:
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Tyme
Bookends
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Here's a great, somewhat obscure record:
Gene Clark - No Other
Cheers, Tim
http://www.moodswingers.org
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Sat, 02 April 2005 18:41 |
maxim
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tim wrote:
"I listened to a lot of albums late at night through a set of Pickering headphones back when I was a kid in the early 70s, here a few amazing sounding records that haven't been mentioned yet"
what about your avatar?
that album blew my impressionable mind
after hearing '21st century schizoid man', i knew there was no going back
cheers,
max
sydney, oz
http://www.asylumdreams.com
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Sun, 03 April 2005 06:08 |
JGreenslade
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When I caught a few minutes on TV of S + Garfunkel at the reunion gig a year or two back, I was convinced I saw a Fairchild 660 on the stage with them, anyone notice it?
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same determined look on Norman's face
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So was Norman a pretty intense guy? Did he suffer fools gladly?
I can fully understand if you need to keep certain info back for a book Bob, but it would be a joy to read anything relating to Whitfield's studio ideology. Funnily enough, I got together with some musicians on Friday night after the pub, and we had a "Whitfield" session listening to the rare extended mixes of "Papa was" and "Runaway child", as well as material from his own Whitfield label. You could hear (by today's standard) that they were limited in terms of tracks and mix positioning options, yet the space available was used to great effect with such dexterity.
There does seem to be very little documentation in the public realm relating to Whitfield in the studio, if anyone can direct me towards books or links I'd be highly grateful.
Cheers,
Justin
Audio is a vocational affliction
"there is no "homeopathic" effect in bits and bytes." - HansP
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Mon, 04 April 2005 16:33 |
David Kulka
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Yep, Band Of Gold was by Freda Payne. The lyric tells of a bride who discovers on her wedding night that hubby can't perform. She winds up sleeping in a separate room, and then leaves him. Whew, what a tragedy -- Freda Payne was gorgeous, and viagra wouldn't be around for 30 years.
And yes, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an absolutely amazing album in many ways -- a work of art that totally stands the test of time. Some of his really old recordings with Them are pretty remarkable too -- "Mystic Eyes", "Baby, Please Don't Go", and his version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", which is beautiful, unusual, and haunting.
The other day I picked up the "Tom Dowd & The Art Of Music" DVD. Wow, that's an amazing documentary, just full of great footage and stories. Much of it overlaps with discussions that we've had here. A scene about Booker T & The MG's has footage of them playing "Green Onions" in a club. Holy crap, they just SMOKED! It'd almost be worth buying the DVD for that one scene.
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