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Rob 12:50 pm UTC 01/04/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Dead Ringer - Scaramouche 02:10 pm UTC 01/02/10 |
| This is the exact quote. It certainly seems to suggest that Jim making Meat sing Bat 2 line by line is an exaggeration. "Joe Elliot was the hardest to get along with. He's got a great really low voice, and a great high voice, but he has a real problem in the middle registers. So we start on a verse, and it's in the middle registers and he's having trouble." "So I said, 'Let's skip onto the chorus to get you going,' because that was higher. It was good, so I say, 'Lets do another track,' and after a while he comes storming in the control room and says 'What the f**k are you doing?' "It turns out that when Mutt does vocals, he uses one track and he won't let him go on to the second line of the song until he has the first line right! And he keeps erasing the first line till it's right! Joe was going, 'How am I supposed to feel the song if I'm jumping to the chorus!' "It's a very bizarre set-up there. I got sick of it after about four months." The full article is in the Original Sin section of this site. > > 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. > > I think Jim was on the back-foot before he even met the > band. Def Leppard wanted Mutt Lange to produce and no-one > else. When Mutt wasn't available they relucantly agreed to > someone else and I think their management picked Jim, > thinking he was a 'Mutt clone'? > > Whether Jim became 'relaxed' in his work ethic I don't > know, but I imagine he was 'going through the motions' > late into the project, waiting to be fired (and in turn > the pay-off). > > If Jim had finished the record I still think Hysteria > would have been a great production and sold tons, albeit > different from what Mutt Lange did. | |
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