In the Recording Studio with The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Recording White Mansions at Olympic: John Dillon, Steve Cash, Waylon Jennings, Glyn Johns
(EthanRussel/Courtesy of the author)
Glyn Johns was 16 years old at the dawn of rock and roll. He got his big break as a producer with the Steve Miller Band’s debut album, and he went on to engineer or produce some iconic albums, including Abbey Road with the Beatles, the debuts of Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. In this memoir Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces he tells stories from the music industry in the 1960s and beyond.
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Glyn Johns
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Comments [8]
Always good to know the name of the person you're interviewing. I'm not surprised he was a little cold.
Mr. Johns is crusty, arrogant and has an ego larger than most mixing rooms.
I would hope Leonard would listen to this again, examine his performance and learn from it. Many of the tense moments could have been solved if Leonard had asked more open-ended and fewer "yes-or-no" questions, and tried less to appear like he knew more than his guest (a recurring element in his show).
Interviewed many porcupines, have you? As always, you got the very best of what you could given the interesting dynamics ....very professional... great job.
Mr.Glyn. Well I'll say he is difficult for me to describe. Mr. Lopate your experience has served us all well. Thanks
Tough interview Mr Lopate! Can't understand why he didn't understand that you ask the questions that the average listener might ask - even though YOU know the answers anyway!
Leonard, please ask Mr. Johns what he thinks of Robert Plant's refusal to reunite with his former Led Zeppelin bandmates, in spite of Richard Branson's historically lucrative offer?
Hours can be spent discussing Led Zeppelin's chemistry. Any insights?
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