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| Author | Comment | DannyJ
May-24-2010, 21:10 GMT
United Kingdom
 | Visit the link below to see the cool new video for Wishes & Stars...
http://www.ifc.com/blogs/indie-ear/2010/05/exclusi
ve-video-premiere-harpe.php
| | | | Forum guest
May-24-2010, 21:16 GMT
United Kingdom
| Nick from Widnes England writes:
Very nice video by Harper Simon Love the track its growing on me. Is that Wilam De Fo in back ground, not shure. | | | | Suzi
May-24-2010, 21:55 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I don´t think that´s Wilam DeFoe. Also not sure though. I Love the song. I like the whole CD actually. | | | | Anna
May-28-2010, 17:44 GMT
Netherlands
 | At Harper´s facebook is an interview he did with Bob Johnston in the magazine The Word who recorded with him on his album. Bob Johnston also recorded with S&G at the Parsley Album. Here is the part about Paul and Art.
Bob Johnston; Well, I helped Paul Simon, the engineer helped Paul Simon but Paul Simon run it. I used to tell him; "Get rid of that guy singin´ - goddam, you can sing already better than he can". He´d go, "oh man, I´ve had him since high school..."
Than Harper says; But they had a great blend...
Bob Johnston; "Oh, they had the best goddam blend in the whole world but I always tried to get him to get rid of him. I thought Garfunkel wasted too much time just twistin´ his hair". He introduced me to his wife - I was down in Nashville givin´ a Grammy to Johnny Cash - and he came up and says to his wife, "This is Bob Johnston, he´s one of the guys who used to hang around during the early part of my career". I thought that was funny as hell. He never did do anything but twist his
hair and do what Paul told him.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harper-Simon/1108522
23604?ref=search&sid=1355634461.3533842472..1
| | | | Suzi
May-28-2010, 22:57 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| That´s too funny. | | | | Simon D.
May-29-2010, 13:58 GMT
United Kingdom
| Bit harsh on Artie I think.
But not as harsh as Paul about Johnson. As I have mentioned before on here, Paul described his role as "Producer" on the SOS album as being there " only to see who wanted a chicken sandwich". | | | | Anna
May-29-2010, 18:05 GMT
Netherlands
| I think Paul said that as a joke, Johnston produced too many good albums, from Bob Dylan to Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash. He did SOS, Parsley and assisted on Bookends.
| | | | Anna
May-29-2010, 18:23 GMT
Netherlands
| BTW, I read another article where Bob Johnston speaks about his producers work. Here is a part of it.
"You were recording Dylan at the same time you were working with Simon & Garfunkel?
Yes. Always had multiple albums going on at once. All at Columbia´s Studios in New York or Nashville. Highway 61 and Sounds Of Silence were done at the same time, same for Blonde on Blonde and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, and John Wesley Harding and Bookends.
Did you ever get Simon & Garfunkel or Leonard Cohen down to Nashville?
Paul Simon came down for about a week once. But we did Songs From a Room with Leonard in Nashville.
You followed Tom Wilson onto Simon & Garfunkel as well, right?
I did. He was the one who had put the drums and band on [the song] `Sounds of Silenceâ? while Paul was in England. But I did the rest of the album.
Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel must have been very different working experiences.
Very. Dylan was fast, and you never knew what he was going to do next. With Paul Simon, something in the studio might take an hour, it might take a day, a week, a month. He was very meticulous. He knew how to make records. He had made lots of demos, and he and Art had [made records] under the name Tom & Jerry. He really didn´t need me or Roy [Halee, then a Columbia staff engineer and soon to co-produce with Simon], except to bounce things off of.
Did they do their vocals together?
No, they overdubbed them separately. I don´t recall which microphones we used on them, but Paul helped choose those, too. He chose the musicians. He hired the newscaster to come in and record the [voice-over] for `7 O´Clock News/Silent Night,â? another song that I think helped end that war."
And maybe that´s what the joke was, Paul is so good at record making, maybe he doesn´t really need a producer ;-)
http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_bo
b_johnston/ | | | | |
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