“Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.” MatterFeelingsRecordsRiskSecurityPromiseMusicianPerfectionFunctionStudiosEquipmentSubjectiveMachineryBlanketUnwilling Author:Jon Landau
“Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.” BelieveFilmArtistRecordsMusicianFinalsPopsAccomplishmentPop Music Author:Jon Landau
“My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.” RecordsAmbitionLateMy FriendsProducersMy Ambition Author:Jon Landau
“Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.” Has BeensLife IsSongSoundVoiceRecordsLet MeAlbumsSingersProducersArrangementsEmphasisFranklin Author:Jon Landau
“Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.” FirstsBelieveMadeEnoughVoiceRecordsRateRaysFranklinJerryWilsonBakersSolomonTurner Author:Jon Landau
“Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.” FirstsBigsSocialRecordsInfluenceSourceImportancePopsAestheticBobSixtyDylanPop MusicSellersUnpredictability Author:Jon Landau
“Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.” TogetherRecordsStyleAspectStonesInfiniteAlbumsCrucialHandfulSinglesSlyGood Records Author:Jon Landau
