annie89509 wrote:steveo777 wrote:Chubby321 wrote:From Kevin Shirley ..
http://www.cavemanproductions.com/cavediary.htmSaturday, May15th, 2010
Berkeley, CA
Recording of the new Journey album is going along very well - eleven tracks recorded - 4 are complete minus backing vocals (Monday and Tuesday's agenda), and there are lead vocals and a guitar solo to go on the rest - a little percussion here and there, a bass fix, etc........ San Francisco has shown it's very changeable and inconsistent weather - sunny and hot one day, cold and cloudy the next.
It's weird how they splice it all together, vs., just going in and playing it.
Maybe times have changed....other than ROR, it was always said that SP and the boys would go into the studio and just "played."
Well, does anyone just build a house ready to make home? No, they change the paint in a room, add tile, move a door, upgrade fixtures, expand the kitchen, rethink landscaping, etc. Since day one, way back when, recording an album - especially a concept album - starts with a sketch, and they fill in the blanks as they go.
Even with KS, who is a professed 'practice until you have it all down' producer, getting an idea to make something better or get a different vibe, means fixing or enhancing things. Then when you sing what you thought you wanted on top of that, sometimes it just doesn't fit. That means changing the vocal, or re-engineering a song to fit the vocal you want.
And often you just want to play with things, ie, do a song six different ways and then decide which you like best. Even in the limited lab that I've built, it's fun to just change s#it and see what happens.
The biggest pain (from what I've read) was when you had a record company calling the shots, and they'd bring in their A&R guy for a final review. A lot of times, he'd say it wasn't sellable and then tell you how to change it. Not sure how much of that goes on any more, but I think John Kalodner did a little of that to Arrival.
later~
...did not know this!!!