Timed to introduce a new featurette.
I've often noticed that there are certain hit factories out there, these are the studios that produce the music we love. Many prominent locations exist in Classic Rock history and so it is with this backdrop that we will begin looking at some of them, one at a time. But for the next two weeks, were going to focus on one and that's the famous Record Plant and its two more successful locations. Our first stop is in New York City....
The Record Plant was a series of three famous recording studios which were founded by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, beginning in New York City in 1968. The Record Plant in New York was the first studio to give the recording artist a comfortable, casual environment rather than the clinical setting that was the norm through the 1960s. Stone later said of Kellgren, "He single-handedly was responsible for changing studios from what they were—fluorescent lights, white walls and hardwood floors—to the living rooms that they are today." Some of the early accomplishments of this studio are rather significant...
Lets take a walk through some of the other great releases that came from this studio...
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The Record Plant was mentioned in the Moon-book, I'm reading, as the perfect studio for Keith Moon. It was there, he recorded his solo-album in 1974, and every day was an ongoing party with booze, drugs and prostitutes/groupies. The first producer on his album was Mal Evans (Beatles road-manager), but he was too much out of his mind on coke, heroin and alcohol (like Moon) and was fired. A few months later he was shot by the police.
Lennon complained about Moon and Harry Nielsson pissing in the studio at some point.
AEROSMITH - It's not that long ago since I last heard this album (because I was reading Joe Perry's book). It's okay, but not great, kind of like most of Aerosmiths outout. Looking at your list, Jack douglas was producing quite a few albums on the Record Plant.
CHEAP TRICK - CLASSIC!!!! This is not only CT's very best album, it's (still) on my top 10 over favorite albums of all time. Buying this album, probably in 1980, and playing it loud made my family complain to me, about the "Jimi Hendrix-noise". My highlight of the day, so far, listening to this song.
JACKSON BROWN - This is not at all familiar to me at all. It's radio-music, and pretty boring. It's this kind of music, that I think you guys post too much around here, and the reason for me to start up VOTW again.
JOHN LENNON - It still makes me sad, listening to this album, because it will forever remind me of the morning before going to school, finding out Lennon was shot. Actually I can't say, remember listening to the WHOLE album, because as far as I remember, it's a cross between John-songs and Yoko-songs, and I HATE everything Yoko. You can't take the music-business serious at all: First withhold bad reviews, and then because of the tragedy call the album the 29th best album ever made.
Could swear I read bad reviews of that Lennon album when it came out. I really didn't care since I wasn't a fan of his solo stuff. Actually, I'm still not a fan of his solo stuff with the exception of a song or two. And no, one of those songs is not the one about light knees.
Jackson Browne used to bore me, now not so much. Maybe that's why I bought a bunch of his albums last year. Or maybe I was just bored and wanted to buy stuff.
Cheap Trick is ok, I guess.
I guess you couldn't play anything off of SOTE for Aerosmith.
Yeah. Well, I guess I wasn't paying attention and didn't really care what I typed. Or I switched Aerosmith and Cheap Trick.
ah... I get it now. I feel better. And you're correct I couldn't play anything off of STOE because I don't own SOTE.
That Aerosmith tune is fantastic. Maybe their second best ballad, behind Dream On of course.
As far as Cheap Trick goes, I'll admit I'm a relatively new fan of the band. Not that I didn't like them way back when. I always thought At Budokan was cool and I really liked the songs Dream Police and Gonna Raise Hell. But I didn't own any albums (other than At Budokan) so all I knew was what was on the radio. Then I reconnected a bit when Standing On The Edge came out. Loved that album top to bottom. But again, didn't delve any deeper at the time. Now that I have, I really love the band. This song is kind of strange, but it's terrific none the less. Really, the first four albums in their studio catalog are practically flawless. Hope they get around to making some new music soon.
The Jackson Browne song was great. I loved music back then. It got played on the radio (not sure about this song, but this type of song) and still had great guitar solos. I have a hard time figuring out why someone that likes JB would not like the band Dawes. The singer really sound like JB and writes lyrics that sound just like something JB would have written. But, no love for that band here, other than myself.
Lennon's solo work is just something that I've never gotten into. Obviously, I've heard this one before. It is a terrific song. I have heard some others in the last couple of years that I like, like Jealous Guy (or something like that) and Beautiful Boy. It's a cryin' shame what happened to him. Maybe I'll get around to picking up some of his stuff. I noticed at the used cd store last week that they have his box set (7 albums or something like that) for about 60 bucks. Didn't realize it when I was there but it's considerably less than what Amazon has it for. You never know.
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