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" But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic. "
Great
More
Some
" Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. "
Virtually
Tape
Computers
" Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click. "
Bad Days
Bad
Starting
" Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. "
Music
Responsibility
Culture
" Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. "
Vintage
Brain
Fun
" I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact! "
Will
Young
Year
" I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again. "
I Am
New York
Forget
" I am not a creature of habit. "
Am
Creature
Habit
" I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father. "
Teacher
Days
Never
" I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. "
Sound
Brooklyn
Music
" I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural. "
Keep
Supernatural
About
" I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance. "
Through
Logic
Love
" I make records with an open mind, I always have. "
Open
Mind
Records
" In August most of Europe goes on holiday. "
Most
Goes
Holiday
" In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "
New York
Great
Job
" It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. "
Overlooked
New
Vintage
" Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band. "
Up
Join
Inspired
" My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. "
Family
Wit
Movies
" My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. "
College
Support
Family
" My father loved people, children and pets. "
Pets
Children
Loved
" My profession is called record production. "
Production
Profession
Record
" No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. "
Our
Faith
Professional
" Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities. "
Star
Rock Star
Now
" Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. "
Leave
World
City
" Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. "
Job
Charge
Director
" Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. "
Experience
Happy
Last
" Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on. "
Past
Rock And Roll
Great
" Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts. "
Years
Since
Teen
" The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. "
Day
Years
Son
" Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. "
Person
More
Involved
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