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A master class in mastering music
So far this week we have had the pleasure of a mastering class from Barry Grint who learnt his craft at studios like Trident and Abbey Road. This man now sits in his padded room all day listening to music and making sure it sounds as good as is possible when transferred to vinyl or CD for our listening…
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Rod Davis learns to play with his school chum John Lennon
From Quarry Bank School to the Quarrymen was a small step for Rod Davis in the Fifties as he had acquired a banjo which he had yet to learn to play. Still in the skiffle days this did not matter and some of the band went on to be ever so successful. Recorded over a…
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Interviews at the Beeb
Been enjoying life at the BBC again where I actually got my first proper job many, many decades ago now. This time it has been just over the road from where I used to work opposite Broadcasting House, my how everything around there has changed. What was my office is now a hotel again and Broadcasting House has…
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On the inside looking out
This week saw the publication of this new volume of stories from the RockHistory archives – ‘Inside Looking Out’ is named so accurately after The Animals hit of 1966. It is now available worldwide in book and kindle form for those of you who have not been tempted yet – so now you really have…
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Haydn Bendall and the day it is all over
You spend a week, months or even years in the studio working on and recording an album with the artist – then one day it is all finished, mixed and delivered, the following day someone else moves into what has been your home. Then what?
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Phill Brown and recording the never more aptly named Burnin’ album
Now is your chance to learn a few studio tips from when Phill Brown was recording at Island’s Basing Street or his early Olympic Studios sessions
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Lester Smith is the specialist microphone expert
Lester is a long termer at the famous Abbey Road Studios and they need this sort of love of the recording process and attention to detail in order for the whole thing to keep rolling, rolling rolling
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Richard Brown played the bass for the Stones, Cyril Davies, Screaming Lord Sutch and more
Richard Brown aka Rick Fenson tells us what it was to have an electric bass guitar in those early days, you would get press ganged into every band that was playing and so long as you could play da Blues / R&B – it was all real fun unless you needed to go to the loo
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Caldwell Smythe and Colonel Barefoot’s Rock Garden
We had been doing some filming of the events at the old Station Hotel in Richmond where those young Rollin’ Stones cut their teeth in the Sixties and we met the extra-ordinary Caldwell Smythe who had put on the gigs at nearby Eel Pie Island in the late Sixties. Too many good stories to miss out…
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Jonh Ingham and the journalist jaunts to worship those still standing Stones
Jonh – as he liked to spell his name in the heady Sounds days as a journalist – experienced Punk in all its evolving music altering stages, but he also used to get out and about with other kinds of music too. One of those trips was when he went off on a jaunt to see those…
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Jack Bruce and the meaning of life
Obviously filmed a while ago for the in-progress documentary about his song writing partner Pete Brown, the late Jack Bruce casts a light upon British humour and the role it played in our country’s psyche. The ability to laugh at ourselves and a surreal view of what is life is just so British. Life with the Graham…
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Robert Wyatt takes us on a UFO Club trip
Here is a man who was there and can remember the Sixties, thus debunking that famous theory once and for all. For him London’s UFO Club was a place for like minded outsiders and he can recall it with great clarity as you will see.