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Goldenday: Джефф поучаствовал в альбоме Регины Спектор 'Far'. о Регине Спектор: Родилась в 1980 году Москве. В 1989 году, во время Перестройки, вместе со своей семьей переехала в Нью-Йорк и поселилась в Бронксе. Получила классическое музыкальное образование по классу фортепиано, закончила консерваторию в штате Нью-Йорк при Purchase College, по классу композиции. Закончила еврейскую религиозную школу. Автор текстов и музыки, Регина Спектор исполняет свои песни, аккомпанируя себе на фортепиано или гитаре. Трудно определить жанр, стиль и направление творчества Регины Спектор: его называют anti-folk, но в нем есть что-то и от панка, и от инди-рока, и от классической музыки (Регина получила классическое музыкальное образование сначала в России, а затем в Нью-Йорке, у профессора Сони Варгас). Ее сравнивают с Бьорк, с Тори Амос, с Ван Моррисоном. Но она все же совершенно оригинальна. Лирика Регины нарочито интеллигентна, с многочисленными культурными реминисценциями — Эдип, Самсон, Эзра Паунд, Пастернак, а музыка экономна и изящна, как классические японские стихи. Самое главное - то, как она умеет играть голосом.

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allamina: Володя, думаешь, готовятся неделю, стрелки наглаживают, воротнички крахмалют? Так а по теме: хочется расчувствовавшегося Уолша! В твиттере Джефф чего-то пока не чирикает.. по нулям.. одни подписчики Вот интересно, он сам это всё завёл или кто другая

Voldar: Эта сцена, как Том наглаживает шнурки у кедов так и стоит у меня перед глазами...а Дана стоит рядом и подзуживает - Пока ты тут красоту наводишь,мы опять опоздаем на твой фестиваль. Насчет свитера Джеффа,это точно,скорее всего там писать будет тоже Линн,но только Хоскинс.Это дамочка которая ведет сейчас мейлинг-лист.

allamina: Том скоро приедет.. в следующем году Про Джеффа не знаю, но верю

Voldar: allamina пишет: Том скоро приедет.. в следующем году Алл,а Том о этом знает?Я понимаю конечно,что очень хочется....У нас на соседнем форуме как то была идея выкрасть Джеффа.

allamina: Стив, который Феррон ответил на приглашение Николая (это фанат такой): "возможно в следующем году"... Значит они об этом думали. Том на концерте почти лично нам сказал: ЕЩЕ УВИДИМСЯ. Майк тоже при встрече в Стокгольме несколько раз восторженно произнёс "Россия"... Ну слова материальны же... Правда, в этом уверена только я. Но мои хотения обычно исполняемы. Джеффа красть не нужно Он не любит концерты Пусть выпускает альбомы хотя бы... лёд тронулся, господа (мы тож тут чуть-чуть, правда, не тронулись)))) Том тож, по словам Стива, уже готов к записи нового

Voldar: Джеффу похоже понравилось устраивать просмотры в музее Гремми.!4 ноября будет ещё один с участием радио KLOS и журнала Q&A.На шоудауне даже есть несколько бесплатных билетов. Los Angeles radio station 95.5 KLOS-FM today announced a special screening, Wednesday, November 14 at The GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles, of the JEFF LYNNE documentary “Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO.” It will be followed by a Q&A with the creative force of ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA and the singularly accomplished British singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. KLOS DJ Cynthia Fox will host the event, which starts at 7:00 PM, and moderate the Q&A. LYNNE's illuminating and entertaining documentary “Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO,” written and directed by Martyn Atkins, gets to the heart of who JEFF LYNNE is and how he has had such a tremendous musical influence on our world. The answer--as told by the British artist himself and such distinguished collaborators and friends of JEFF as Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Olivia and Dhani Harrison, Barbara Orbison and Eric Idle--is that LYNNE is a true man of music for whom the recording studio is his greatest instrument. In other news, LYNNE recently received a nomination for inclusion in the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame. The event will take place June 13, 2013 in New York City. LYNNE just released two albums on Frontiers Records on October 9 to critical praise: the solo disc LONG WAVE, a heartfelt and vivid tribute to some of the very songs that originally inspired him, and MR. BLUE SKY–THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA. For the latter album, LYNNE has artfully revisited and created brand new versions--at his home studio in Los Angeles--of the greatest hits of ELO, actually improving on the gems that catapulted them to sales of 50 million-plus records worldwide. The release of the albums marks the 40th anniversary of ELO. Both albums contributed to what Billboard.biz called a “spectacular chart comeback (10/15/12),” with three top-10 albums on the U.K. charts at the same time—LONG WAVE, MR. BLUE SKY—THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, and ALL OVER THE WORLD. http://www.955klos.com/Article.asp?id=2563828&spid=16106

Voldar: Очередное интервью Джеффа,в котором наконец задан вопрос относительно возможности выхода второй части волн. Interview: ELO Frontman Jeff Lynne Discusses Long Wave and Mr. Blue Sky It’s hard to imagine how anyone with an appreciation of classic pop or rock music of the past 40 years could not be affected in some way by the work of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Lynne. It all began in the late '60s with his lesser-known releases as leader of The Idle Race, then dipped into the very early ‘70s after he joined The Move. Hit after hit poured forth from Lynne throughout the ‘70s and into the ‘80s with Electric Light Orchestra. The latter half of the ‘80s found the self-taught producer successfully moving into outside production work with legends like George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. Together with those three artists, plus Bob Dylan, Lynne was part of the beloved Traveling Wilburys. Lynne co-wrote and produced more hits in the ‘90s. He also ventured out on his own for the first time with the release of his solo debut, Armchair Theatre. A monumental challenge (and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity) presented itself in 1994 when the surviving members of The Beatles approached Lynne to produce their reunion sessions. Using primitive John Lennon demo recordings, he—along with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—crafted the singles “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” both part of the Beatles Anthology project. But it’s simply not enough to rattle off a list of credits and accomplishments. Songs such as “Strange Magic,” “Do Ya,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” and “Don’t Bring Me Down” have permanently fused with the very fabric of pop culture. Jeff Lynne’s songs are heard in movies, advertisements, department stores, and—most importantly—the stereos and iPods of music fans all over the world. His recently released solo album, a batch of non-original oldies titled Long Wave, and a collection of newly re-recorded ELO hits, Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, offer proof that he hasn’t slowed down or lost a step to this day. I recently had the great privilege of spending some time talking to Mr. Lynne about his recent projects and storied career. I loved the new album, Long Wave. Did you record any additional songs that didn’t make the final cut for some reason? Well no, they all could’ve made the final cut. There was no reason why not. But I just had too many. I had enough for two volumes, really. So I just wanted to do the ones I felt were ready to go. And some are still a little bit unfinished. It’s just that you can only put so many out at once really. The relatively brief running time left me wanting more. Well, it is short because those songs, all of them, are only like two minutes or two minutes, 15 seconds or something. And that’s the way they used to write them in those days, which I actually love. I love short songs. I think it’s so much better to get in and get out again. Being a skilled multi-instrumentalist, you played every part on the album and made it sound like an ensemble. Is it easier for you to do it that way, or do you enjoy the challenge it presents? Oh, well it’s a total challenge for me to learn all the parts, every single part that goes into the song. And that’s why I do it, because it’s a stretch for me musically as well. It’s much harder music than I’m used to doing. So when I actually started on this album, which was about three years ago, I just realized what a stretch it was. Stylistically, you cover a lot of ground on the album, going back to pre-rock standards from the ‘30s and ‘40s like Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” and Rodgers & Hart’s “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” I’ve learned a lot doing these songs. It’s made me a better musician, for sure. Learning all the parts was sheer pleasure for me. It was like going to university and discovering all these things I didn’t know about. And so absolutely, playing all the things myself was integral to doing it, really. I feel the song choice that probably stands out the most is “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.” I was curious about how you decided to do that one. Yeah, me too! [laughs] It’s a very strange one. I’ve always loved the tune of it, the melody. I’ve never liked the old arrangements that I’ve heard up to now particularly. They’ve always been a bit too flowery and grand. I wanted to try and make it more of a shuffle and just rock it up a bit. It worked! It sounded like Jeff Lynne—a real highlight of the album. Ah, thanks. Sure. With the Mr. Blue Sky album you’ve meticulously recreated the ELO sound, track-by-track, again playing everything yourself. Was there any temptation to introduce new arrangements? No, I never wanted to change them. I always wanted to be faithful to the actual original songs, on Long Wave as well. A lot of people tend to abuse old standards, and sort of go off on their own merry little tune. I prefer to stick to what was written down, what they actually meant the tune to be. So I don’t like really altering things from how they started out. So that’s why I never altered the Mr. Blue Sky ones. All I wanted to do was make it technically better, you know—to sound better. So I started off with a click track and gradually built it up from there, layering it until it was sounding good. Can you describe the process of creating these re-recordings? I did “Mr. Blue Sky” first to see what the difference would be, recording it now as opposed to recording it 35 years ago. And it was a big, vast difference because of the facilities I’ve got now in my studio, like an 80-channel analog desk. Then I can go into the digital stuff from that. So it’s like the best of all worlds really. There are no moving parts. It’s analog and it sounds really good. The difference is, in the old days I used to try and stuff thousands of instruments onto these little few tracks and they just would tend to wear the tape slightly, a little bit. And so they’d be a bit hissy and have a lot of top missing out of them from bouncing down tracks over and over again. I knew it was a little bit naughty in those days, but I had to do what I had to do to get the song finished, how I wanted to do it. So that’s the main difference really. Now they’re all clean as a whistle. There’s no wear and tear on the tape, so they’re all clean for the first time. Would you like the new ones to replace the old, in terms of radio airplay? Or should they just exist comfortably alongside the old ones? I think they can exist together. But personally I’d love to hear the new ones played rather than the old ones. Because when I listen to the old ones now I go, “Oh my goodness, I wish I’d done that a bit better,” or “I wish I hadn’t worn the tape out quite so much.” There’s always some reason that I go, “Hmmm, I don’t know, I don’t think so.” So they can co-exist, but I do prefer to listen to the new ones. We’re coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the Concert for George, which itself marked the first anniversary of George Harrison’s passing. Did you organize that tribute concert with Eric Clapton? Basically Eric organized it. I just helped in any way I could, like by singing four of the songs. Or five, was it? Four, I think. Including a pair of duets, you did five songs. My favorite was the very first one you did, “The Inner Light,” with Anoushka Skankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, on sitar. Oh yeah, that was a scary one! You know, I mean with Ravi standing right there. Had you played with classical Indian musicians prior to that? I had before, previously on my album Armchair Theatre. I had probably eight Indian drummers. George conducted them for me in my house in England. We recorded them in a hall. It sounded fantastic. George really knew how it works, this technique called the tihai. Which is a… God knows how it works. I don’t really. Somehow you count backwards and you end up finishing on the right note. And I don’t know how to do it, but he could do it. That sounds pretty interesting. Big, long strings of numbers and it all works out. I don’t know. I’ve no idea how it works. And, of course, I had these two great classical Indian singers on there too, on a song called “Now You’re Gone.” And I was thrilled with them, they were such brilliant singers. Mournful and just so sad, their voices. Beautiful. You helped induct George Harrison, as a solo artist, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. You, Tom Petty, Dhani Harrison, and Prince performed “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Yeah. Do you know whose idea it was to get Prince involved? Um, you know I really don’t know. It just sort of happened. The next thing I knew, we were playing together, rehearsing one of them. I don’t know how it happened, but it must’ve been somebody at the Hall of Fame I would suspect. Do you remember what you were thinking when Prince stepped up and launched into that epic solo? Well yeah, I was thinking it sounded pretty good, actually! [laughs] It was great, I enjoyed that. But obviously it’s always tinged with sadness when it’s for someone who’s no longer with us. Yes, of course. The second Traveling Wilburys album, Vol. 3, is also tinged with sadness, as it was recorded after the passing of Roy Orbison. It’s less talked about than the first, but there’s some great playing on it. Whose idea was it to bring in the late, great Gary Moore to play lead guitar on “She’s My Baby?” Oh, it was George. Gary was friends with George at the time, that’s how he got invited in. Of course, I knew him as well a little bit and he was a really nice guy. And we just got him in because we were working at George’s house and he lived not far away at that time. He just came in one day and overdubbed his guitar. Stepping way back to your work with Roy Wood in The Move, how do you assess the albums Looking On (1970) and Message from the Country (1971) with over 40 years of hindsight? Well, really it’s that I can see my total lack of experience as a producer. But I like some of the songs. It’s just that some of the ways that they’re recorded is a little bit odd, the things that I did when I wasn’t very experienced. I mean, we’ve all got to start somewhere. I had started producing with The Idle Race. I’d done one album before The Move. And so those were my second and third albums [as producer] as part of The Move. I didn’t have all that much experience, like I say. Good songwriting though, "Open Up Said the World at the Door" deserves to be a Classic Rock radio staple. Was that a period of growth for you as an artist? Well, I probably wrote half the songs on each of the albums, me and Roy Wood. So I don’t know, I don’t really think about it in terms of progressive or whatever. I was just still learning. And I think they’re good, I think we did our best on them. And some of them sound pretty good. They’re just a bit rough, production-wise. http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/interviews/interview-elo-frontman-jeff-lynne-discusses-long-wave-mr-blue-sky-and-more/

Voldar: Интервью с родины. The making of our Mr Blue Sky Jeff Lynne Jeff Lynne was born in Birmingham on December 30, 1947 and has the same birthday as one of his musical heroes, Del Shannon, who he ended up producing. His rise to prominence started when Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, one of the best bands on the Birmingham scene, disbanded after both Mike and guitarist Roy Wood left (Roy to form The Move). The remaining three members of the band recruited 18 year-old Jeff. “I’d been hanging about learning the guitar and recording stuff at home,” he says. “I’d bought a B&O tape recorder for 120 guineas (about £130, which was a lot in those days) and I learnt how to record sound on sound on it (overdubbing) in that little front room in Shard End.” The Idle Race, as the band changed their name to, also made it big on the local scene, but despite being championed by the likes of DJs John Peel and Kenny Everett (who was honorary president of their fan club), they failed in their bid for stardom. The band’s two albums were mainly written by Jeff. The second was also produced by him. The songs were touches of whimsy with more than a hint of an influence from The Beatles (who received a name check on the track Girl in the Window). Eventually, the band’s lack of commercial success prompted the fledgling producer to accept Roy Wood’s second invitation to join The Move in 1970. Jeff’s condition on joining The Move was that he could be a part of Roy Wood’s vision that became The Electric Light Orchestra. The initial shows were rather fraught, as Jeff remembers. “There was a famous occasion when the seven of us in the band outnumbered the audience and another time the neck busted off Roy’s cello. That caused a bit of a kerfuffle,” he smiles. ELO’s first album, released 40 years ago in 1972, spawned the hit single 10538 Overture, which Jeff wrote. But Roy then left to form Wizzard. “I didn’t know Roy was gonna leave. But we’d done about half a dozen gigs and we weren’t getting on as we used to and he decided to leave. That, of course, left me to pick up the pieces.” From then on, Jeff and ELO could do no wrong. A string of hit singles ensued. Livin’ Thing, Don’t Bring Me Down, Xanadu (with Olivia Newton-John – their only Number One), Sweet Talkin’ Woman, Wild West Hero and, of course, Mr Blue Sky cemented Lynne’s reputation as an excellent songwriter. “It was pretty damn amazing really,” he says of those days. The band’s tours grew to be enormous and for their 1978 world tour they had lasers and a giant spaceship that rose into the air. However, Jeff wasn’t the biggest fan of touring. “I don’t hate it,” he emphasises. “I just prefer to be in the studio making new stuff. I toured because I had to. I call it doing the legwork.” Jeff wanted to produce other artists’ work and disbanded ELO in 1986. Drummer Bev Bevan formed ELO Part Two a few years later, touring and recording an album, and Jeff released an album under the band’s name in 2001 entitled Zoom. And despite all the rumours of bad feeling between the former Move members Lynne, Wood and Bevan, Jeff says it’s all nonsense. “We’re still mates although I haven’t seen ‘em for nearly 20 years. We all went our separate ways and I wish them all the best.” After ELO, Jeff went into production work and worked with the very best, Brian Wilson, The Everly Brothers and Del Shannon among them. Then, after producing albums by George Harrison, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison, Jeff co-founded the super-group The Traveling Wilburys with Petty, Harrison, Orbison and Bob Dylan. The Wilburys recorded two albums (the second without Orbison who had passed away) with great success and Jeff also brought out a solo album entitled Armchair Theatre. He also produced The Beatles when Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney reunited to record Free as a Bird, around an old tape of John Lennon’s vocal. Having seemingly been quiet for a few years though, the Birmingham-born musician is back with a brace of albums; both with a nod to the past. But why two at the same time? “Well,” he muses, “they are quite different albums and despite working on them for the past three years they were both finished at the same time.” Mr Blue Sky – The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra sees Jeff revisiting his hits and re-recording them “I recorded these songs again because over the past few years when I’ve listened to them, they have sounded a bit woolly. Also,” he adds, “I’ve got 30 years’ more experience as a producer, so I decided to make them more punchy. I couldn’t use any of the old tapes but I was faithful to all the original arrangements.” Among those on the album are, of course, Mr Blue Sky, Strange Magic and Telephone Line. And as a special treat there is a brand new track called The Point Of No Return. Of all the songs he recorded with ELO, he cites Mr Blue Sky as his favourite. “Of the hits, yes, but I also love Take Me On And On from the Secret Messages album.” The second album, Long Wave, is so titled as it is full of covers of songs he used to listen to on long wave radio when he was younger. Jeff takes up the story. “Basically, I was forced to listen to these songs as a kid. My dad had the radio on all the time and it would be on pretty loud. “He used to say ‘Ahh, this is the stuff’, but I just couldn’t understand it. It was the arrangements that got me, they were so complex. But the years went by and I started to understand them and I wanted to record them.” “Then when I worked out the songs I found that they were really quite simple. I don’t read music so I learnt all the songs by ear and I love all that music now.” The songs include such classics as She. “I’ve wanted to do it for years,” Jeff says. “Like all the songs, I couldn’t sing it like the original and I wasn’t going to sing it like me (as the singer with ELO). I made She into a harmony song and did the three-part harmonies.” There’s also Smile, Love is a Many Splendoured Thing and a superb version of Beyond The Sea. Naturally, Lynne has included a Chuck Berry song – Let It Rock. “I had to,” he says. “I love Chuck Berry ‘cos that was what started us all off.” As with Mr Blue Sky, Jeff has worked mainly solo on the recordings. “I’ve had help from Marc Mann on the strings and my eldest daughter Laura has put some backing vocals on. Apart from that I play virtually everything.” “I love recording on my own. I get a sense of satisfaction and I’m a nutter for getting it right.” The good news is that we could also soon get to hear some new compositions from the 64 year-old Brummie. “I’ve got eight new songs so far for a new album I hope to have out next year.’’ Read More http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/music-in-birmingham/2012/11/02/the-making-of-our-mr-blue-sky-jeff-lynne-65233-32138636/2/#ixzz2BWjyhTyD

allamina: new album I hope to have out next year ... а мы то как надеемся

Voldar: Очень богатая статья в профессиональном журнале звукоинжинеров с описанием оборудования которое использует Джефф для записи. Jeff Lynne - Strange Magic Since his introduction to the recording studio in the late 1960s, Jeff Lynne has proven himself a continual innovator. With the formation of Electric Light Orchestra (Lynne, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan) in 1970, he introduced the inclusion of orchestral string players as permanent members of the band, adding a new layer to the pop soundscape. Soon after, the move to Giorgio Moroder’s Musicland studio and collaboration with engineer Reinhold Mack in the mid-’70s culminated in what many consider Lynne’s crowning achievement in recording, ELO’s 1977 double-LP release, Out of the Blue. Following the breakup of ELO in 1986, Lynne turned heavily to producing other artists, including George Harrison, Dave Edmunds, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and a band listed at the top of his recording heroes, The Beatles themselves, for whom he produced the group’s Anthology reunion tracks, “Free As a Bird” and “Real Love” in 1994-95. He was also, of course, a member and co-producer of The Traveling Wilburys, with Harrison, Petty, Orbison and Dylan, releasing two acclaimed discs in 1988 and 1991. Lynne released one solo album, Armchair Theater in 1990, and 22 years later, on October 9, released a second, Long Wave, a tribute to the classics he heard on the BBC on his father’s long-wave radio in the late ’50s and early ’60s. Released the same day was Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, for which Lynne has taken a second pass at some of ELO’s biggest hits. Recording of the two albums took place at Lynne’s Los Angeles home, where he has lived these past 17 years overlooking L.A. and on a good day gaining a view of Catalina. The space has a warm tone with wood-paneled rooms, and Lynne might plug in anywhere. As Joe Walsh, one of Lynne’s most recent collaborators [see Mix August 2012], says in a new documentary (Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO), “Every room in that house is a recording room.” The control room still reflects Lynne’s analog roots, with a classic 40-channel British Raindirk Symphony LN1 console, a load of EQ modules rescued from his previous Raindirk Series 3 desk, AMS DMX 15-80, S-DMX and RMX-16 digital delays, API 550 and Massenburg 8200 EQ units, API 512b and Brent Averill 1073 and 1272 mic preamps, and plenty of UREI 1176 limiters. Lynne and engineer Steve Jay, with whom he has collaborated for the past five years, record to Pro Tools and mix through the Raindirk, monitoring through Yamaha MSP-10s or Event Opals, as well as larger ATC SCM100 speakers. Lynne records guitars and vocals in a half-office/half-studio space next to the control room and drums in an extra room filled with spare CDs, box sets and 7-inch vinyl. A very large wood-paneled, high-ceilinged room downstairs, looking much like the interior of a warm hunter’s lodge (and formerly used to store pinball machines by the previous owner), is used for recording piano and string and choir sections, among other things. For Mix, Lynne reveals his current recording process, as well as that of his pioneering work with ELO, some techniques of which remain in his massive bag of recording tricks. You’ve had personal recording studios for years. When was your first? [Points to a Bang & Olufson Beocord 2000 Deluxe reel-to-reel machine in the control room]. That’s my original studio. I got it in 1968. I had a Mellotron in the front room of my mom and dad’s house, and I had that set up, with a record player right next to it in this big cabinet. It’s a 2-track “sound on sound” machine. So you would record on the left track, and then record a mix of that along with, say, a second guitar, onto the right track, and just keep bouncing, adding a vocal or a bass drum. Sometimes I’d bounce 20 times—you’d see through the f***ing tape! It was like Scotch tape in the end. And I could do the best phasing on Earth. What did you learn from using it? I learned to experiment. I learned about having sounds together, seeing what piano sounded like with the guitar and how to include the Mellotron. What do you like about the rooms you use here for recording? Everything’s made of wood. The big room downstairs has just the right amount of bounce—very soft, not trashy, like a big room can be. The other room, where I record guitars mainly, has just that perfect ratio of room and guitar, like the old BB King kind of blues sound. Dry, but slightly wet. No reverb. I never use any reverb. And my drum room, which is like a storage cupboard—I have some great fun recording in here. You’ll see, I’ve got tielines in each room that lead back to the control room, so there’s no cables running down the halls. On the two new albums, you play everything yourself. Do you miss having a band of guys around to play with? No, not really. Don’t forget, when I first started recording, with the B & O, I was on my own. I always record by myself, which I love. I love playing every instrument—that’s my favorite thing, just making a whole, big landscape of racket, with me doing it all. If we’d record everything live, at once, I could never get the separation I wanted, and I could never concentrate enough on the bits that were really important. When you get those bits done early on, and they’re tight and just right, it’s much nicer to play to, to add all the guitars, pianos, keyboards and the harmonies. Once it’s solid, it’s just that much more fun to play. Walk us through how you build a track. I’ll start with a click track, which I’ll play to with a hi-hat for about 20 seconds, recording a really good groove. Then I’ll use the click to build up the tracks. I’ll put the snare on, and then tom-tom fills and snare fills. I can play a full rhythm track—I’ve been drumming since I was 13; I play on a Gretsch kit now that I got during the Wilburys sessions—but not necessarily great. So I prefer to build it up, with lots of assistance from Steve and the computer, and just layer it. Nearly all the time now, I’ll also use a big fat bass drum—a 28-inch Ludwig from 1941 that belongs to Steve. You can cut the room decay down to different lengths. So on some really slow songs, you can have it quite long. Or if it’s a fast song, like “Beyond the Sea” on Long Wave, you gotta pull it in a bit, because otherwise, it’s just one big BOOMBOOM-BOOMBOOM. After the bass drum is in place, I’ll put the bass on, real punchy, dead on, on the note. Then I’ll put the guitar rhythm. From there, I have a foundation to work from. One of the hallmarks of any great Jeff Lynne recording is the drum sound. How do you create that? There’s a certain sound that I can hear in my head that I can usually create, depending on the room we’re in. I can always get it in here because Steve knows how to get me the old-fashioned drum sound that I love in that room—a little bit of room on it, and plenty of separation. But a big part of it is I move the overheads out about 10 feet. I don’t like close-up mics. I don’t like the clickiness of them. I especially don’t like a mic under the snare, that little Shure—I hate that sound. It doesn’t even sound like a drum. This sound really goes back to even the earliest ELO days. One of the things I do comes from the fact that I couldn’t get enough separation when I would record Bev’s drums. So I used to get him to double-track the snare drum and some of the tom-toms in a room, on their own. So you’d pick up that, along with just the room sound of those drums, which you can then turn up separately in the mix of the kit. It was a much better sound, because the room sound of those drums doesn’t bleed onto the bass drum and everything else. I did that from Day One—4-track the snare drum and the tom-tom. That is the drum sound, really. That’s all it is. On Mr. Blue Sky, you match the signature sound of “Don’t Bring Me Down” perfectly. That’s basically a snare that’s just crushed to death by a UREI [1176]. That’s as flat as I could have it without it blowing up or becoming a fuzz box. That’s how I did it in the first place, and I did the same method on the new version. On the original record, that was actually a drum loop from a different song. I just took two tracks of drumming—bass drum and snare, with a bit of leakage on the hi-hat—put it on the 2-track machine and did the old trick, wound it round a mic stand and my old pencil. I think it was two bars long. Recorded that onto the 24-track, and then I was ready to go. Believe it or not, I think that had eight pianos on it, all doing the same note. God knows what I was expecting to happen. It just gets eight times louder! If you turn it down, it’s still only one piano. It doesn’t track like a guitar [recorded with multiple passes], because a guitar bends a bit. You can slightly knock it out of tune, and you get this big chorus effect. A piano doesn’t do that, of course, until you bang it out of tune. Do you miss tape? I don’t miss anything about tape, except the fact that you can tie your plants up with it. [Laughs.] When did you first get introduced to Pro Tools? Probably about 14 years ago. I didn’t like it when it was new; it was very low-bandwidth, it sounded brittle and gray, no color to it. Gradually, over the years, the sampling rates got better. What do you like about working in Pro Tools vs. analog recording? I love everything about Pro Tools. There were things that sometimes would take a week to do that we can now do in half an hour. It’s so much better, and there’s no moving parts. There’s 10 different ways to get the same sound. I just think it’s super duper. And you can see everything you’re doing. Who’d have thought you’d end up looking at what you’re recording? You can see where the hit is. In the old days, on tape, you wouldn’t have a clue exactly where a beat was while editing. You just had to get it right, and then, if you were wrong, you had to do it again and again. You can still hear edits in some of the old ELO tracks, when we were recording on tape. Now it’s all smooth. How did you do basic tracking with ELO? When I had the band, I’d always start out with piano, bass, guitar and drums—live. And I always used to tell them, “Don’t worry, you won’t hear any of this,” because of all the overdubbing! [Laughs.] And that goes back to what I was saying about recording by myself. When I would record with a band, it was four guys having to get it right, each playing in their own time, trying to get it right all at once at the same time. Now you can have as many goes as you like, and then still tighten it up if you want. If you don’t want anything wrong, you don’t have to have anything wrong. Now you can do it and there’s nothing wrong. I love it. Do you find you produce songs in your head prior to recording, particularly in the days of complex ELO recordings? Yeah, I used to think about sounds a lot. There are certain sounds that are just built into me. I imagine it was great fun for you to create those sounds, as well. Yeah, it was always fun, because I was using stuff that I never dreamed of using, like choirs. 20 people in a choir—that’s quite an amazing thing to use, if you’ve never done it. And it does certainly add a completely other dimension to something. Same for big string sections, like 30- or 40-piece. It’s funny, at the start, it used to be, “Oh, a string day tomorrow!” with four sessions of strings. But by about the sixth album, it was, like, “Ugh, string day tomorrow—f***. We’re gonna have to do that all day.” Cause by then, I just wanted to simplify it. The production on Long Wave is decidedly simple. It’s because the songs are brilliant. You don’t need much to make ‘em work. They’re written by proper geniuses, like Rogers and Hammerstein—absolutely brilliant people. When I was a kid, I didn’t get it at all. My dad would say, “Oh, this is Richard Rogers,” and I’d go, “How? Why? I don’t understand it. It’s just a big load of grownup stuff. What does it mean?” Until I tried listening to it again a few years ago. And I thought, “I’ll have a go at one of these buggers and see if I can make sense of it now and do it.” How did you approach them? To learn these songs, I just sat there, playing a guitar part, listening 100 times, tunneling in the bits I needed to learn. The way I’ve recorded them, I’ve stripped them all of their original flowery arrangements that were very good in the day but not really suitable for the way I wanted to do it, which was more punch, make ’em electric. We rebuilt these songs onto my own track. Your vocal performance, then, becomes so much more important, because it’s really all about the melody and the emotion with songs like these. Exactly. And that’s why I really had to try really, really hard to get them right. I’d do 10 takes sometimes ‘cause I still wasn’t sure that I’d got everything covered. It was daunting trying to sing any of them. I’d come in to sing it, and it was, like, “Oh, my God. Oh, here we go… “ It’s some of your best singing ever. Particularly challenging, I would imagine, was Roy Orbison’s “Running Scared.” Did you find that, having known him and sung with him, you were able to infuse your performance with some of his heart or intonation? That’s a really difficult question. I’d listened to him, since I was 13 or 14. It’s like some kind of god…that voice. He’s just…I don’t know, ridiculous. I mean, how can anybody sing like that? It’s so pure and marvelous and emotive. Everything about it just sensational, your hair stands up on end. In the ELO days, how would you map out all of those interesting lead vocal and background parts, which are so much fun to listen to? Well, kind of backwards to how most people would do it. I didn’t have any words to any of those ELO songs until the last couple of days, until I had to mix ‘em. I’d got bits of ideas for words, but I never sat down and wrote them. I was too busy doing the music. Lyrics were always the big chore. I’d be, like, “Ugh, I’ve gotta do ’em tomorrow.” I’ve got the tune in the back of my mind, which I could rely on in between doing the rhythm track and finishing all the overdubs, before I did my vocal. For my lead vocal recording, I usually modified the tune to work best with the backing track we’d done. And that sometimes made it difficult to do the backgrounds, because I hadn’t actually made the words up yet. So I couldn’t commit myself if they had words in them until I’d done the vocal. On tracks like “Mr. Blue Sky,” you always had so many wonderful miscellaneous vocal bits thrown in, as well. “Mr. Blue Sky” had a lot of stuff going on, little instances popping up. Back then, you could fit ’em in between, where there was an empty part on one section. The engineer, Mack, would say, “You can have four tracks there, just on that bit.” Those little pieces popping up—that is the best fun. I love doing harmonies; it’s my favorite thing to do. How has your recording experience evolved since ELO? I had a year off, after I disbanded ELO the first time, and I just played on my desk at home, with me as the engineer. I learned tons about EQ and echo and AMS and stuff. So when I started work with George [Harrison], the engineer, Richard Dodd, knew I was well aware of all that stuff. What I’m good at is EQ, and I like certain effects that I always use, though there are certain ones that I like to experiment with. I have here all the EQ modules from my old 16-track Raindirk desk, because the EQ on them is really, really powerful. It’s got a tremendous sweeping ability. You can sweep through certain frequencies on an electric guitar, and it makes it sound like a slide. I used it twice on Long Wave—on “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Smile.” It sounds like you’re playing some weird instrument, but it’s actually just that. Oh, shut up! Now I’ve told ya—secret’s out. [Laughs.] You record dry? I notice you’ve got a nice collection of AMS units. Everything’s recorded dry, yeah. I love the AMS, even though it’s digital. It’s 30 years old, and it’s so easy to use. It’s just the best gadget or box I’ve ever known. Very rarely use echo on anything, but, if I do, probably would be on voice, just as an effect. And I never use reverb, except as an effect on the end of something. How did the Mr. Blue Sky album come about? I heard “Mr. Blue Sky” playing once, and I thought, “I thought it was better than that.” But it obviously wasn’t, not the way I had always heard it in my head. So I started with that one, to see what it would be like. I played it for my manager and a lot of other people, and they all went, “Whoa, you should do more.” So I tried “Evil Woman,” and then I tried “Strange Magic.” And I thought, ”Just keep going, then.” And I enjoyed doing them. My goal here really wasn’t just trying to reproduce the original sound. I was also trying to improve on the overall sound. The guitar sound, the piano sound, the drum sound—trying to improve all the bits that make up the whole. That’s what I aimed for. What was the best part of returning to these songs for a second spin? What did you learn from them? I learned that even though I’d done quite a few albums up to then, I still needed to learn as much as I needed to learn. No song is ever the same as another, when you’re recording them. You can’t beat recording. As far as I’m concerned, it’s as much fun as you can ever have. http://mixonline.com/recording/artists_engineers_producers/jeff_lynne//index.html

Voldar: Интересная статья о авторских правах. Legacy acts reboot classics to regain royalties With the record industry continuing its gradual decline, and digital downloads and commercial licensing proving ever more crucial, a number of legacy acts are heading back into the studio. But cutting a new album may be the furthest thing from their minds. While most legacy acts control their own publishing rights as songwriters, rights to the master recordings of their biggest hits are often controlled by the record labels, which limits a band's ability to freely license out its music, and forces them to split the proceeds with a label to which they may no longer even been signed. Yet there's usually nothing to stop them from simply recording their songs again, note-for-note, and exploiting those recordings to the fullest extent they desire. Appropriately, a number of marquee artists have taken the initiative by painstakingly re-recording their biggest hits, and in some cases, complete platinum albums, in an effort to control 100% of the revenue made from digital downloads and licensing from advertising, TV and film placement. Performers include Def Leppard, Foreigner, Styx, Squeeze, Cheap Trick, Electric Light Orchestra, Tori Amos, Randy Newman and Twisted Sister, and the list continues to grow each year. "It has to do with the inherent corporate structure of the music business," says Jay Jay French, founding member, guitarist and now, manager of Twisted Sister. "It's the only business where you create, you pay back, and you still don't own. This is why most musicians, by the way, will not cry over the destruction of the record industry." Twisted Sister not only re-recorded their iconic 1980s rock anthems ("We're Not Gonna Take It" and "We Wanna Rock"), they completely re-created their platinum album, "Stay Hungry," releasing it recently with additional material as "Still Hungry." Originally attached to Warner Music's Atlantic Records, the band recently signed deals with smaller labels Razor & Tie and Eagle Rock, both of which worked out a partnership that French says "respected the heritage of the band, and gave us the flexibility to record those songs and maintain control for the licenses of them." Twisted Sister directly licensed its music for "The Betty White Show," the Broadway play and film version of "Rock of Ages" and in ad promos for Amigo Tequila and Extended Stay Hotels. By offering the re-record licensing rights for less than Warner Music would charge for the 1980s originals, French says they are able to lock up 90% of the deals. How lucrative can these deals be? Licensing fees for advertising alone can range from $100,000 per song to several million dollars, which Led Zeppelin received from Cadillac in 2003 for the use of "Rock n Roll" in a TV ad campaign. It's no longer considered to be a sell-out for bands to place pop classics in advertising, films and TV -- not with half of the licensing revenue ending up in artists' pockets. Now the creators are looking to get more of a return. "From a licensing standpoint, we have seen the greatest exploitation of our music this year," says French. "Every year I keep thinking it can't get any bigger and it does. Why not make 100% of the money?" Although classic rock still holds the crown, alternative and indie music placements are growing rapidly. Re-recordings of hit songs are nothing new. Little Richard, the Everly Brothers and several other rock pioneers often re-cut their greatest hits in the early 1960s when they signed with new record companies; and TV marketer K TEL Presents made millions releasing compilations filled with re-recorded hits. The practice caused labels to incorporate a re-record restriction for five years in record contracts. Def Leppard re-cut some its classic songs for a different reason: they were unhappy with the split Universal offered them to license their recordings to iTunes and other digital download platforms. "We're master forgers now," singer Joe Elliott told The Virginia Pilot in August. "We're not trying to be greedy. We just want a fair cut of what we think is right." Electric Light Orchestra founder and leader Jeff Lynne recently re-recorded "Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra," releasing it through Frontiers Records for an entirely different reason: he never liked the way the original versions sounded. "Some of them just weren't recorded too well back then, and my production wasn't as good as I thought it was," says Lynne, who owns the name of the band and all the rights to both the old and new versions. "I was totally faithful to the old songs. I didn't change the songs or the arrangements. I did them exactly the same because what was wrong was the way I had produced them back then." Since Lynne controls the usage of all ELO songs, it is likely he will only want his newly solo-recorded versions available for license. "Sony Music has the older version of the ELO hits out and they can pick those ones as much as they can pick mine." Tom Rowland, senior VP film & television music for Universal Music Enterprises, assures the trend to re-record has not been an issue for giants like Universal, Sony or Warners. "It's not a big problem," he says. "It has gotten more press than it deserves. First of all, guitarist X is dead and the drummer is dead and they are not really the tracks. If I am going to land a Cream song or a Traffic song in a film set in the '70s, they are not going to use a recording of that song done in 2012 or 2013, because it is not authentic." He adds, "Music supervisors want authenticity. They want the real thing. Unless it is a different spin on the track, like a new remix or a completely different version, why mess with perfection?" http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061925?refCatId=1009

Voldar: Джефф таки появился снова на втором просмотре фильма о себе любимом и даже ответил на вопросы. Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO Grammy Museum, Los Angeles KLOS’s always-lovely DJ Cynthia Fox hosted this memorable event at the Grammy Museum as KLOS and American Express presented Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO. This new documentary finally sheds a little light on the man behind the curtain – Jeff Lynne! More than a powerful songwriter and musician (The Move, ELO, Traveling Wilburys), Jeff Lynne’s role as an engineer, producer, and collaborator has sealed his fate as one of the most influential men in music history. The movie takes a peek into what’s behind this legendary genius, and explores Lynne’s successes through his own words, along with a parade of distinguished friends and fellow musicians including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Olivia and Dhani Harrison, Barbara Orbison (Roy’s widow), and even Monty Python alum Eric Idle! The movie is a must-see for any music fan! After the screening, Cynthia Fox moderated a very interesting Q&A with Lynne, whose sincere and quite charming!! The night ended with a series of great questions from the audience, which was filled with Jeff Lynne fans and lots of KLOS winners, as well as a most notable attendee – drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police, who even raised his hand and asked his friend a question! http://www.955klos.com//Article.asp?id=2575125

AlexYar: Главное, что он в очередной раз обнадежил, что его творческий процесс продолжается, а значит новому сольному альбому таки быть!!!!

Voldar: Ну это канешна,в очередной раз заявил,что уже 9 новых песен у него есть.

Goldenday: Voldar пишет: уже 9 новых песен у него есть. Ещё недавно было восемь. Парень не сидит сложа руки

Voldar: Не,в последнее время не сидит,уже насиделся,практически Джефф Муромец.

Sergey`M: А точнее: Джефф Муромец-Лосанжелесский! (или Бирмингемский). Раз уж песни новые появились в таком количестве, значит альбому быть!

Voldar: Эрик Идл в своём блоге написал... Liner Notes My friend Jeff Lynne has asked me to write some liner notes for his CD. In a cavalier moment when he was worried about writing them I airily offered to do the job. “Oh would you? You’ll be able to do it easily” he said “Because I can’t.” “But Jeff” I said “you have done everything else. All the writing, all the recording. All the singing. All the selling.” “But I haven’t a clue what to do, or how to write liner notes” he said. “Nothing to it I said.” But I lied. My only previous experience was writing liner notes for the second Wilbury’s album, and I think I just copied what Michael Palin had done for the first. Clearly the thing to do was to find somebody funny and copy them, so my first move was to co-opt Billy Connolly into joining us for dinner. “Liner notes” he said, “they still have liner notes? I thought they went out with the Titanic.” “That’s Liner, Billy” I said. The story so far. In a fit of egotistical madness Eric Idle has agreed to write the liner notes for Jeff Lynne’s album, but so far he has no idea what to do. He is assembling for dinner with Jeff and Billy at an expensive West Hollywood watering hole, called The Expensive West Hollywood Watering Hole. He has sat with Billy for half an hour and made a bad joke about Shark Infested Waiters at the Peninsular. They are waiting for Jeff. He appears. “How are the Liner Notes going?” he asks. “Nothing to it” I lie. But it’s a dilemma. I have Billy Connolly to help me, but he isn’t much help, he just keeps collapsing into a pile of giggles and staring wistfully at the waitress. The waitress is really worth a stare, but she has no place on these liners notes. I ask Billy what he wants to eat. He says “I want nothing bouncy or jiggly.” “Seems to me” I say “the waitress falls into that category.” Billy stares morosely into the distance. I know that look to mean he’s thinking. “For the serious collector” he says “the vinyl CD.” “Oh yes and you can download it” I say. The idea slips into the sand and drains away. “I like that” says Jeff. “How about we say originally it was a Virgin record? It had no hole in the middle.” “That’s not funny” said Jeff. “Alright” I say “we’ll improvise. Its 1932….” I begin. “I had just woken up and was feeling wretched” continues Billy. “I was lying in the street next to a donkey. Nice ass I said.” “’Listen to this mate’, said the donkey putting on a Jeff Lynne album and a small sleeveless Fair Isle knitted pullover…” “Adding a small moustache he set off to invade Poland….” “Because he couldn’t spell Czechoslovakia.” This too sank into the sand. There was a moment of silence as Billy stared at the long legs of the waitress. “They’re all strumpets!” he said suddenly and very loudly in his Scottish pastor voice. “Whoors, harlots and strumpets the lot of them!” “First of all they’re not strumpets,” I said, “One or two of them may be on the sluttish side, but I never met a slut I didn’t like.” “Put that down” says Jeff, “that’s good.” “For the liner notes?” I say in disbelief. “Maybe” he says. I know Armchair Theater very well. It’s a lovely album isn’t it? I mean either you know it or you’re about to, and either way you’ll love it, but nowhere is there anything in it about sluts. Even I don’t think that’ll fly. We abandon our pathetic attempts to be funny and drift on to other subjects and an enormous amount of food is eaten. “Are you still doing my liner notes?” says Jeff, as he reaches for the check. “Oh yes,” I lie. http://www.ericidle.com/blog/?p=255

Voldar: Джефф попал со своей песней в гуманитарный диск ,выпущенный в качестве подмоги от последствий урагана Сенди. Hurricane Sandy Relief While the effects of Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the eastern United States, many of the small coastal communities in New Jersey and New York, were hit especially hard. To help these small largely lower income communities get back on their feet, such as Red Hook Brooklyn and the Far Rockaways, a host of amazing artists have contributed to Songs After Sandy: Friends of Red Hook For Hurricane Sandy Relief, Volume 1. “Songs After Sandy: Friends of Red Hook For Sandy Relief” is being sponsored by the Not For Profit Green Ground Zero, which was founded for exactly this purpose, to help communities rebuild after disasters. In this case it is particularly poignant as they also advocate for green restoration which creates a more sustainable environment while hitting the root of the problem of global warming. All proceeds from this campaign will go to Restore Red Hook, Red Hook Initiative, Occupy Sandy, specifically the “Wedding Register” they maintain where they detail items needed in specific communities and Green Ground Zero. PledgeMusic will be the only place you can pre-order this album (and look out for subsequent editions!). In addition to the album, many of the artists here will offer up exclusive signed items and experiences so keep an eye out. TRACKLIST – Adam Arcuragi – “Cobra Tie” Joseph Arthur – “Come on Caroline” Brendan Benson – “What I’m Looking For” Live version Eric Burdon – “ Tishomingo Blues” Kaiser Cartel – “Long Way From Home” Toby Lightman – “Life Is a Riddle” Jeff Lynne – ““Save Me Now” (Brand New Electric Version)” unreleased track about global warming Joan Osborne – “Where We Start” Kenny Wayne Shepherd featuring Buddy Flett – “Third House on the Left” Ringo Starr – “Wings”, recorded Live in Atlanta with the 2012 All Starr Band Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck – “The Tide” These United States – “Damned & Redeemed” Joe Walsh “”Rocky Mountain Way” – Live from Troubadour with Ringo Starr on drums Bonus content: Bob Weir and Jesse Malin– Video, live performance of “Brown-Eyed Women” http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/songsaftersandy?utm_campaign=project5755&utm_medium=medium&utm_source=pledgemusic

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