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junkshop coyote 1243812777|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
This week Phil Spector was sentenced to 19-years-to-life in prison for murder.
Can it now truly be said that he is/was America's answer to Joe Meek?
Lee Ashcroft 1243851257|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Only if he shoots himself in prison.
Thee Crumb 1243856395|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Well, they were both barking mad early 60's record producers who killed people - there the similarity ends, as Meek was even crazier than Spector.
My favourite Meek story (apart from the one where he believed that a cat he tape-recorded in a graveyard was channeling voices from a dead farmer*) comes from former Outlaws drummer Bobby Graham, who was given a tea-towel by Meek to muffle his snare drum during a session at Holloway Road. Graham got a bit too enthusiatic and ripped a big hole in the tea-towel, causing Meek to go batshit crazy, claiming he'd never be able to get his trademark snare sound again and throwing all of them out of the studio. He was last seen in tears while tenderly holding the tea-towel in his arms…
*(And the one where he believed that Decca Records had installed microphones behind his wallpaper to steal his hits)
iivix 1243859118|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
On a similar note:
from Sound On Sound *
However, the device that the band liked most was this thing we called the ‘Red Box’. You see, it was red, and it was also only half-finished when I took it down to Thwing. I can’t now remember what it was actually supposed to do, but it had a bypass switch that I’d mucked up slightly, so when it was bypassed it made the signal a tiny bit louder. The band thought it was great as soon I turned it on, and they immediately made me use it on all the tracks. They didn’t understand that it didn’t do anything, they just thought it was great because it made everything louder. They used to call the bypass switch the ‘magic button’ and they’d dance around like kids, going ‘Press the magic button, Kev! Can I press the magic button, Kev?’ Silly sods!”
*ahem, note the month of publication
Keith Hic 1243859727|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Can I press the magic button, Kev?’
quote of the centry!
hardoff 1243939591|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
my friend's wife used to be Spector's private secretary. i think she sued him or something, and then wrote a book about what a c**t he was.
