George Massenburg wrote on Sun, 11 July 2004 13:55 |
I'll find out the pad on "Shower The People". |
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... It was decided that for this one tune he'd stand up in concert and do a "duet" with a (I think) Revox tape recorder providing the BG/chorus parts.... George |
Jim Frazier wrote on Sun, 11 July 2004 09:33 |
Yea, the first time I got to see JT was back in 1980, and he was using that tape machine on "Shower The People". It was extremely entertaining, especially because he had pre-recorded some "banter" that went on between himself and... himself, prior to the song starting. He did use a footswitch to start and stop the machine. It was pretty cool. Two spotlights on the stage. One on him, and one on the tape machine! |
henchman wrote on Mon, 12 July 2004 14:46 |
I had an old recording of a Live version of "I'm not in love". And while the lead singer is talking, you can hear the BG's start and then stop again. It sounds like soemoen accidentally starting a backing tape too soon. I wopuld think they were using a reel to reel backing tape. Just as OMD used to do. If I'm correct they would run an 8-track reel to reel. Prominently diplayed on stage. |
volodia wrote on Wed, 14 July 2004 14:18 |
HI, I started at EMI studios and my mentor told me about what they called a "choir machine" in the 70's which was a multitrack with one note per track and a keyboard that would unmute the console channels . apparently every EMI studio (ie abbey road) had one and Alan Parsons, when he came to EMI France had his own too . |
ssltech wrote on Fri, 16 July 2004 17:20 |
Cool-ee-oh! Here's a pic of the console, BTW... |
Jim Frazier wrote on Fri, 16 July 2004 18:38 |
I used to close my eyes when listening to that song, and see mental images of forest greens, warm blues and misty gray colors./quote] I'll have what he's having. |
ssltech wrote on Fri, 16 July 2004 09:20 |
Cool-ee-oh! Here's a pic of the console, BTW... |
Bryson wrote on Fri, 16 July 2004 22:38 |
I don't see the fag lighter. |
WhyKooper wrote on Tue, 13 July 2004 02:50 |
Each track of the tape had one sung drone note (punched in over and over to give length)and then at one point, they cut the entire 2" tape and made it into a huge loop...similar to what B Gibb did with Galutan etc at Miami's Criteria a lot in those days with long 24 track loops, looped around pencils and who knows what else. |