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Originally Posted by Jeff Goodman A&M studio A was a Trident TSM. Our very own gearslut Paul McKenna used to own that console. |
Those are great consoles when they work!
Man, Stewart Copeland is the reason I started playing drums. I can't believe how unsung the Police have gone since their demise.
The older I get, the more I realize that The Police was really Stewart's band. Yeah, Sting penned the hits, but everything really cool abut that band had to do with Stewart. Stewart started it, the whole punk-reggae thing was what he was into, and most of the tension was from his relationship with Sting. Have you guys ever seen that "History Of The Police" live video? There are some really great fight scenes on it (in addition to some amazing live footage). I love that part at the beginning where you can see Andy yelling at Stewart, "Too fast!"
A couple years ago, a discussion about Stewart insued on the TapeOp board and somebody posted a great link to a page about Stewart that had lots of information about how those records (especially the early ones) were tracked. Apparently they would just play the different sections of the songs for long periods of time and when they got the different sections or some of the transitions feeling good, they'd just splice them together. Same thing goes for the tops of the tunes and all the drum solos at the end of "No Time This Time." A lot of times at the top of a tune, they would just edit in at the top of a drum fill and unmute Sting and Andy on "one." I also recall at some point hearing during tracking that they would have an assitant whose job it was to turn the click off and on, so that the fills and transitions could ebb and flow naturally without the tempos skyrocketing. (Like, off on the downbeat of the eighth measure, back in on beat two of the next section.)
Did Nigel Gray do much after the Police records? I always loved those records and don't recall ever really seeing his name after that.
Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC