Lorraine Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Producers have to be controlling to a certain extent, lest the band produce itself and most bands (and Rush certainly falls into this category) tend to be too close to their own material to be objective enough to know what's good and what's shit. Now I know why Geddy said what he said in the Rush book I have. Too lazy to get up and grab it to give you names of producers or the Rush album concerned, but they had lined up a producer who punked out on them at the last minute and they had to scramble to find another one who turned out to be a good producer but indecisive as hell and left all of the decisions up to Rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JARG Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Producers have to be controlling to a certain extent, lest the band produce itself and most bands (and Rush certainly falls into this category) tend to be too close to their own material to be objective enough to know what's good and what's shit. Now I know why Geddy said what he said in the Rush book I have. Too lazy to get up and grab it to give you names of producers or the Rush album concerned, but they had lined up a producer who punked out on them at the last minute and they had to scramble to find another one who turned out to be a good producer but indecisive as hell and left all of the decisions up to Rush. Maybe p/g? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 i'll get up and get the book and be right back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) You're right, JARG - Grace Under Pressure, and the man who punked out on them was Steve Lillywhite, and the last minute replacement, Peter Henderson, Geddy said is "a very good engineer....Although a producer he is not." "We went into the studio to start making the record, and we realized that he couldn't make a decision. So it was very frustrating because we had to make all the decisions all of a sudden....." Edited March 11, 2015 by Lorraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 You're right, JARG - Grace Under Pressure, and the man who punked out on them was Steve Lillywhite, and the last minute replacement, Peter Henderson, Geddy said is "a very good engineer....Although a producer he is not." "We went into the studio to start making the record, and we realized that he couldn't make a decision. So it was very frustrating because we had to make all the decisions all of a sudden....." Good producers really do have to be a jack of all trades. Plus it really helps a lot if they "like" the bands music they're producing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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