Happy 2018. To soothe your possibly-aching head, here are 90 minutes of recording engineer Steve Albini talking about recording drums for pop music, and about production in general. Let the endless technical detail wash over […]
Category: studio
An Internet thing I like
OK, this is actually useful: I like this new YouTube thing of isolating drum tracks from famous pop/rock recordings. Recording can be a horrible exercise in self-scrutiny, and is often a question of how much […]
Groove o’ the day: Dougie Wright — En Melody
I spent a lot of time listening to French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg as I was working on my album of his music a few years ago, and came to appreciate a very British, very 70’s, […]
Transcription: Andy Newmark – Anticipation
This is kind of a remarkable track by Andy Newmark, Anticipation by Carly Simon, one of the first and biggest hits he played on. It’s an easy thing to dismiss— if you’re over about 40 […]
1984 Modern Drummer interview: Andy Newmark
Here are some excerpts from another great Modern Drummer interview from my youth, this time with session drummer Andy Newmark, drummer on Sly Stone’s Fresh, John Lennon’s Double Fantasy, David Bowie’s Young Americans, and much […]
Airto: 1983 Modern Drummer interview
Here’s part of another great Modern Drummer interview, from 1983, with Airto, the famous Brazilian drummer and percussionist. As always, I’ve excerpted the parts that are most important to me, and the headings are mine. […]
New shoot: Tera Zarra of Fist Of Dishonor!
AKA Missy Jitsu of Ninja band Fist Of Dishonor. We’d been meaning to do a shoot for weeks, finally got around to it, and a bunch of great stuff happened. Wow. Next time we add […]
Preparing to gut a screaming opponent, evidently.
Here’s one with that cool Photoshop shadow/highlight adjustment, which gives it a kind of vintage poster look.