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a living?
Not really.
Were they proud that you pulled this career out of
thin air?
Absolutely. But it started off with, "Why don't
you get-what they always used to refer to-a
proper job?"
What would you have been if you hadn't chosen
the career path? Had you ever thought of anything
else?
Visual art, film work maybe. I was into projectors and cameras and things.

And the first album we made with them in London, Holiday, we made in actually 12 days from
start to finish, with orchestral overdubs, vocal
overdubs and mixing. So it was 12 days working
from maybe 10 until eight o'clock at night, something like that. But those people were just
unbelievable people to work with. Again, listening
to the music, you can hear it in their music and in
their playing. That is them, you know.
There is a lot to be said for capturing unbridled
enthusiasm, I think.
It's just something that's overlooked now. What
used to happen in the creation of the Beatles
records, because they didn't come into the studio with things "finished." They might have the
lyric finished, and the instrumentation was

thought about, but it hadn't been set. So when we
would be doing the basic backing track for any
of their records, we might spend like six hours
doing it and realize it's not working. Why is it
not working? So there's a discussion. Well, let's
change the instrumentation. And sometimes
then the ideas would come out. You've got them
en masse, so you've got ideas floating around.
And often, someone would make a mistake and
it would be an error. But if you thought about
the error, it was really good and different, so we
used to put overdubs on top of the error. That's
why their songs are the way they are, with lots of
changes in the songs, and the mistakes becoming part of the arrangement. It was just great
working like that. I mean, people don't work like
that now, you know.

And you're still into photography, right?
Yeah. But I sort of got off it a bit when the digital format came in. I used to like creating the
whole thing myself. Now, it's just press a button.
Is that analogous to digital recording technology?
Yeah. Again, if we're gonna go back to that, the
first mistake for me is all the software and the
plug-ins. What most people seem to do is, as
soon as they'd lift a fader up, is put a plug-in on
it. But why? Why don't you create something
yourself? Put your own personal brush stroke on
it, and then things might move forward. I feel
there's a whole world waiting out there for
someone to make that first push. I mean, most
of the plug-ins are just basically equalizers. I
shouldn't really be knocking them, in a sense.
But the thing is, psychologically, you see a nice
picture of the front face of a Fairchild 660 and it
doesn't sound anything like a Fairchild 660.
Is that your favorite compressor, by the way?
It is, especially for guitars and vocals. I mean, it's
just unbelievable, it really is. I know there is the
670 or the 690, which I think is the stereo pair.
They don't sound anything like the 660. I was
talking to George Massenburg about it, and he
said it's because they share a power supply, so
you haven't got the full power on the attack. So
that's why the 670s don't sound like the 660s.
While we're on the subject of gear... Do you have a
favorite microphone?
I guess it's got to be old mics again. Obviously, I
used to like the [Neumann] 47s, the 67, the
Coles 4038s, some of the new Royer mics, and
some of the ribbons. But I normally go back to
old mics, you know.
You also worked a lot with America. You really lit
up the other night when we were talking about
America. You seem very fond of them.
Working with the band America was really one of
the most pleasant recording sessions ever. George
Martin produced the albums after the first album.
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