Anyone with an interest in the music industry and recording should drop some time into reading The Daily Adventures of MixerMan, a recording engineer’s day by day account of working on a Major Label album. His entries are not only coffee-on-the-monitor hilarious, but also very insightful:
If U2 were to put out Boy today, I contend that record would have been a sterile piece of shit. They really weren’t great players back then. But U2 had a vibe, and they were innovative, and the fact that they weren’t great players made the music all the more alive. Today, a young U2 would have more than likely been destroyed by a Producer and his Alsihad, that is, if they ever got signed at all.
I’m not the only person who questions the usefulness of people like Tom Lord-Alge:
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