[kj] Manchester University
CEPLASTER at aol.com
CEPLASTER at aol.com
Tue May 9 11:28:24 EDT 2006
Dear Angry Tom Hanks person,
Your comments about the arrangements and how the recordings were
put together for the last couple of KJ records seem very much on the money. KJ
2003 definitely sounded as if it could have been recorded with a laptop.
However, I do think Gill did a good job at pulling things together and getting
the arrangements together. If you notice, he does get writing credit on most
if not all of the 2003 songs.
Having said that, the new record definitely sounds like there's a
bit of cut and paste action going on, but I don't see it so much as a crutch
as much as a means to an end. Sometimes bands will write stuff individually
and bring it in as a mostly finished thing, other times bands will come in
with nothing, start rehearsals/ jams and pull things together as a unit.
The Stones during their best days recorded their stuff this way.
go into the studio and record mountains of raw music, then sift through ,
find the best stuff and carve them into song structures. Maybe not the most
cost efficient way to do things, but it did yield results.
So getting back to the point you were making, I guess I just
look at this as being one of many ways you can make a record. Who knows how
they'll approach the next one,
when and if it happens. The only thing you can count on with these guys is
that no two records will ever sound the same.
Thanks, Carl P.
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