5 Recording Sessions I Wish I Had Witnessed

[pepperbear]

As any musician or engineer will tell you, there's nothing like a creative & energetic session, especially when there's a great song and great talent to lay it down. There's also a "moment in time" aspect of recording that has always fascinated me, so I thought I'd post one of my ever-changing lists.

In no particular order:

1. The Beach Boys / Good Vibrations
2. The rhythm track for the Temptations' "My Girl" w/ the Funk Brothers
3. Elvis Presley cutting his very first Sun tracks 7/18/1953
4. 2/10/1967, orchestra sessions for "A Day in the Life"
5. 1936/1937, Robert Johnson hotel recording sessions

[johnnie]

1. Good list

I would have loved to be at the Smile sessions with the Beach Boys.

The Beatles first sessions with Martin would have been really cool. That whole thing in 12 hours.

Yeah, Elvis' first tracks at Sun.

Syd's Madcap sessions, to see how he really was. And how they got him to do it.

The Who recording "A Quick One".

I know most of those are sessions, but it is so hard to pick just moments. So many would have been cool to watch and listen.

[pepperbear]

2. right!

an ill and shirtless Lennon, smoking cigarettes and alternately eating cough sweets while trying to get through twist and shout.

I heard that over the years, Syd was quite lucid and pleasant and simply withdrawn. apparently he became quite the painter.

hey have you ever heard of the infamous beach boys "help me rhonda/I'm a genius too" bootleg?


http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/im_a_genius_too.html


:hi:

[johnnie]

3. Very cool, thanks!

I've heard the part where Murry said he was a genius too, but not the whole thing. I have to download it when I get home from work.

Yeah, Syd was a painter even before Floyd. I have seen some of his work, but most of it, according to his sister, got destroyed after Syd (Roger) had taken a picture of it. His reasoning was once something was done it was done, no need to keep it around.