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Originally Posted by talkshowman  Yum. I hate you.  (sarcasm very much intended).
May I ask what it was like to work with the man himself? |
well firstly, he was a very nice guy and very professional. And he drinks a lot of starbucks.
I couldn't believe how lightly he plays, its almost like he is pulling against gravity to stop the sticks from hitting the drums. We had all the gains on the Neve desk up full and there was still barely any level getting to tape (disk).
I had programmed all the drum parts on the demo versions, and I had to keep telling him not to play exactly what I programmed, "play something more like Steve Gadd would play", but a couple of places he insisted, saying he loved how counter it was to what he would have thought of playing. He had some great bass ideas too.
The songs with groove were amazing, his playing of these ones just leaves you grinning from ear to ear. And the engineer had to be on his toes and ready to press record at any moment
, hence the copious number of mics on the kit, so as not to get in the way of the creative flow when changing setups.
matt