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Titolo: Making a Monster Part 7: The Beverage Guy Speaks...

...Don't Change a Thing.
 Beh questo capitolo vede il ragazzo delle bibite esprime il suo
parere riguardo alla versione migliore di "Star 69" da mettere
sull'album.
rallentare la canzone? Neanche per idea... rallentarla, secondo Cote,
sarebbe come ucciderla visto che è in stile garage e divertente così
come è... alla lunga se si continua a suonare una canzone più volte si
diventa anche meno oggettivi di fronte a ciò che ascolti.
Quindi dopo essere rimasto calmo, per i fatti suoi fino a quel
momento... a un certo punto l'amore per la musica come ascoltatore dei
rem ha superato il desiderio di tenersi da parte:
"I think it sounds great just the way it is."
silenzio di tomba nella stanza... col solo rumore della macchina del
caffè in lontananza :))))
poi continua "Ho sentito suonare la canzone tutto il giorno, e questa
è la mia preferita dell'album. Non cambierei niente se fosse in voi"
A seguire lo sguardo di Scott Litt che a stento riesce a contenere il
suo disgusto come a dire "è questo qui chi è, che vuole, che ne
sa...????" :))) Il sorriso di Michael che si mette per un secondo a
guardare  il pavimento...
Poi si rimettono a discutere e ricominciano da dove si erano
interrotti in studio... un solo tentativo... prendono per buona la
prima registrazione e via... passano ad un altra canzone. Così Star69
rimase nei secoli dei secoli ... veloce e rock come era sempre stata
fin dalle origini.... grazie a Cote ;)
ehehe ci vorrebbe un altro ragazzo-aiutante di questo tipo con Pat
mcCarthy ;)))
p.s.
secondo voi quante balle sta tirando questo tipo per fare pubblicità
al suo gruppo?? :)) Cmq che sia una storia vero o che sia falsa... è
sempre divertente leggerla :))
magari l'ha solamente *modificata* un pochino ;)
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Continued from a previous post... 
Slow it down? What a crappy idea... slowing it down will kill it I
thought. A song like this is supposed to move along at a good clip. It
is garagy and fun the way it is. If anything, this was a classic
example of over playing and over analyzing. Sometimes the more times
you play something, the less objective you are about what you are
hearing. 
This happens a lot with The Reverse Engineers as well. From time to
time during the recording of Max Q, we had to take a step back. After
about 4 hours of hearing the same song, you start to get burned out,
and nothing sounds good. When this happens, I always try to move onto
something else. Usually, everything is a lot clearer when you come
back to it a day or 2 later. 
As you can imagine, since *69 was my favorite new song off of Monster,
I was having trouble containing myself. Up until this point, I was
very careful not to stick out... not to get in the way. However, at
this surreal moment, where Michael Stipe and his producer were
discussing a song that was none of my business, my love of music as an
REM listener overcame my desire to keep quiet.
"I think it sounds great just the way it is.", I said.
There was silence in the room. The moment seemed to last for quite a
while... much longer than it really was. The quiet was deafening, with
just the trickle of the coffee machine in the background.
Then my mouth opened again, "I have been listening to it all day, and
this is my favorite song on the album. I wouldn't change a thing if I
were you."
Scott Litt looked at me... his face barely able to contain his
disgust. He was probably thinking "Who the hell is this guy... what
makes this gopher think he knows anything about music...". At least
that is what I imagined he must be thinking. Michael Stipe just smiled
and looked down at the floor for a second. 
Then they started talking again about approaches to take. They made
their way back into the studio, and picked up where they left off.
This time, REM played just one more take, and that was it. They moved
onto another song shortly afterward. Their last take of *69 sounded
just like the last 20 or so... fast and rocking. The band didn't
change a thing. When I listen to the song now, it sounds almost
identical to the way it did when I heard it live during the recording
sessions. Perhaps in some way, I had left my mark on music history.
Maybe if I hadn't spoken up, well meaning producers might have
destroyed a cool piece of music with some random misguided
experimentation, hoping to find the magic switch.
I stayed in the hall for the rest of the evening. I was pretty sure
that I would get fired or something. I was told that I shouldn't get
in the way, and telling the producer what to do definitely wasn't in
my job description. Perhaps my outstanding gopher skills saved my ass.
I was getting pretty good at my job. Peter Buck always had YooHoo in
glass bottles, and my supply of Coke (in little small glass bottles of
course) had been consistent. Lunch arrived hot, and the beer was cold.
Perhaps I would get to stick around.
That's all for now. Check back soon for the next installment of
"Making a Monster" called "REM's Sergeant Pepper...". I will try to
post more often in the coming days. We have been really busy, and I
have been doing some traveling, so thanks for your patience with my
slack blog habits.
http://engineersblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/making-monster-part-7-beverage-guy.html
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Ciao!
Vero - 
High Speed Train Jumpers #2
"The ascent of cactus" club #3
--
"You can't show anyone anything he hasn't seen already, 
on some level - any more than you can tell anyone anything he doesn't already know. 
It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: 
to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows..."
(W.S.B.)

 sempre divertente leggerla :))
ahah anch'io mi sono posto il problema... la cosa che gli interessa di
piu` e` sicuramente fare pubblicita` al gruppo e sfrutta questa storia
dei R.E.M. per procurarsi un po' di visite. il metodo non mi piace
molto, ma nel complesso la storia mi pare credibile.
Francesco
-- 
The outsiders are gathering, a new day is born.