That's true, although he also probably dug that the synclavier would (theoretically) make music-making easier while caring for his son, which had caused difficulty on the last couple Reprise albums. It's probably for that same reason that David Briggs, as anti-tech as anyone in Neil's camp, endorsed the acquisition at the time.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 February 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
Good point; I'd forgotten that many of Neil's tech acquisitions were as much for his son as for himself.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 28 February 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
I only now came across this 1989 track from the post-Grace Slick Starship album wherein Mutt writes a song that's almost self-parody and Mickey Thomas tries to sing like Joe Elliott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8JIbltEf_k
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
oh man
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 July 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
was surprised to see this wasn't a new thread about Maroon 5's Hands All Over and Nickelback's Dark Horse
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
that Maroon 5 started racking up #1s the second they stopped working with Mutt Lange was like...dang
Came across another article that is a look behind the veil of how Mutt Lange worked on some of those Def Leppard records.
http://tapeop.com/interviews/118/mike-shipley/
Good god, if I had to listen and work on mixing 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' exclusively for 13 hour days for 4 to 6 weeks, I would have been carried out in a straight jacket. I have read that Trevor Horn spent a totally insane amount of time mixing those early Seal records.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 March 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
They're not a band that immediately spring to mind when discussing Mutt Lange's production work, but I thought his production on the single version of XTC's 'This Is Pop?', far more powerful and hard-hitting than the LP version. If only they could have got him to do 'Go 2' or something.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
his first production credit. i think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY-AIvM7DWU
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
there was nowhere to go but up!
i always kinda liked this 1974 slab of mutt glam. that intro riff could be on a shania song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_IFhWx8A2E
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
lol, wait, i think this might pre-date the hocus single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3srwEvkyF8
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
mutt records i like that nobody cares about: the first city boy album and the second mallard record.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
i actually like everything he did with city boy. and the boomtown rats. and the motors. he was a cool 70's dude.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
a tonic for the troops is such an awesome sounding album. ambitious pub punk at its finest.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
unjustly neglected mutt lange production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0oIBBMBl8
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:24 (seven years ago) link
I was almost gonna say that "T.N.T." will always be my fave thing by him but that was totally vanda & young and they are the ultimate wizards and true stars in my book.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Crazy thing was he was great at cutting more straight ahead records, but he got so successful that he was in that 'everything bigger than everything else' pop world. It's all 5-6 records a year then it gets into the mega hits era.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
I got to wonder what a Martin Birch produced version of Def Leppard would have sounded like. They still might have ended up pretty huge.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link