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Rob 11:59 pm UTC 01/01/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Dead Ringer - steven_stuart 10:26 pm UTC 01/01/10 |
| I'd love to know where this story of Jim piecing Meat's vocals together to make Bat 2 came from. As far as I'm aware, Jim's never referred to it in any interview and, having seen Meat live on the Bat 2 tour, I can't see why his vocals would have needed such treatment at the time. Should Frank Farian get a similar award for Blind Before I Stop? (and yes, I'm aware of what he did with Milli Vanilli before some smartarse chips in here ;-P). I always find it odd when people talk about Jim's perfectionist production style of making Meat sing the same line over and over again to get it right. Some people seem not to have read Jim's Kerrang interview around the time of Pandora's Box when he ridiculed "Mutt" Lange for taking exactly that approach with Def Leppard. In fact, Jim's "relaxed" approach to recording Joe Elliot's vocals was one of the reasons he cited for his sacking from the Hysteria project. Hmph - now I've got all that off my chest, make sure y'all have a Happy New Year, y'hear? > Apparently he had the same problem with Meat's vocal > tracks while they were producing Bat 2. But he stuck with > the project and used different studio tricks (like taking > different bits from different takes and making up a "good > vocal track"). He must have been in a different place when > he quit the Dead Ringer project. By the time they started > work on Bat 2, he must have really wanted to put out a hit > record because he overcame the vocal-hurdle (although > perhaps Meat's voice was in even worse shape during the > making of Dead Ringer - Meat said something on one of the > documentaries about a psychosematic problem which made him > unable to sing). Whatever the case, I do feel that Meat > owes his best vocal Grammy for Anything For Love to Jim > and the brilliant way he produced in the studio. I'm not > sure about the States but Anything For Love was the best > selling UK single in 1993 and Bat 2 was the best selling > UK album of the same year. Who would have thought that Jim > had to work so hard to get the vocals right? | |
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