One, it's creepy. I've seen reruns on PBS and found something unnerving about it. It's a television show with a set, and they used different camera angles but basically the lighting was the same. Sense we only had a day to shoot the video that seemed to be the optimable environment for shooting. David Lynch factor with heavy red curtains and lots of make up.
Producers are as important as the band itself now.
As far as the recording process goes now everything is a complete safety net. It's a safety net because the engineers are close-micking the instruments so they have as much control over the signal as possible, and at the same time limiting bleed through from other musicians and while they track everything and do as many takes as they want to get it technically perfect. If the emotional quality of the take is appropriate we keep it. Yeah, but you also have people who were songwriters while others were singers. It was like a machine.