> What I'd really like to know is what Jim said in 1989
> about 'Signs' recording/production and the finished
> product. Puff pieces from Jim were all I ever saw so I'd
> be fascinated to hear what you have.
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And that Billy Squier album? What was the story there?
"Well, strangely enough that was another 'Mutt' project - I really learned a lesson that year! 'Mutt' was supposed to be producing Bill, but he was having his nervous breakdown from the Cars and their 'Heartbeat City' album; that pushed him off schedule. The two major problems here were that Billy co-produced - which he didn't originally tell me he was going to do, and it just limited my abilities - and the fact that he insisted on getting in engineer Tony Platt, whom I didn't agree with at all.
"But the really annoying thing was what he did with the video (for the track 'Rock Me Tonight'). That really just killed his career."
If you haven't seen this particular clip, it has Billy wriggling around on pink satin sheets, and is generally regarded as a good example of how not to make a video.
"That's the trouble working with other artists," says Jim. "Even if the relationship is amicable, ultimately you just don't have the control."
A lot difference to his thoughts in 1984, I thought.
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