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Def Leppard Hysteria - making of

 (last updated: dd/mm/yy) Def Leppard’s Hysteria – making of February 1984 : After wrapping up their successful Pyromania tour in Bangkok, Def Leppard set up shop to Dublin for tax reasons, where they started writing and pre-production for what became Hysteria . Over the next six months, they each demoed multiple riffs and ideas onto 4-track cassette recorders from which they’d assemble proper songs – these included “Animal”, “Armageddon It”, “Don’t Shoot Shotgun”, “Excitable” among a few. Producer Mutt Lange, who worked on the band’s last two albums, also joined in for some of the writing, but later informed them he couldn’t produce it due to burnout from prior projects. 11 August – late October 1984 : The infamous recording sessions with producer Jim Steinman and engineer Neil Dorfsman at Wisseloord Studios (Hilversum, Netherlands). It has been well documented that Steinman’s standards were not as high as the band’s. Joe : “[Steinman] wouldn’t adapt and we wouldn’t comprom...
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Led Zeppelin Kashmir evolution

 (date updated: dd/mm/yy) "Kashmir" is a song released on Led Zeppelin's  Working titles include “Driving To Kashmir” and “Driving Thru Kashmir” (the latter as titled on Physical Graffiti Deluxe edition). The song was first recorded to tape on 25 October 1973 at Headley Grange during the early Physical Graffiti sessions, the same day as an early version of “Sick Again”. As Jimmy Page recalled, it was just him and John Bonham jamming to the main cyclic D riff on the session. Work on “Kashmir” resumed during the main recording sessions in February 1974, this time with the full band. A rough instrumental mix was created during this period ( here ) with the basic drums, bass and guitar parts but no orchestra yet. It’s quite likely a new take done on 21 February 1974, given the differing track sheets and Robert Plant’s guide vocals heard bleeding into the drum mics in the mix (starting around the 2:15 mark). Orchestral overdubs took place at Island Studio One in Lond...
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Let’s Go Crazy multitrack breakdown

 (updated: 17/05/24) Let’s Go Crazy multitrack analysis Information on Princevault: https://princevault.com/index.php?title=Let%E2%80%99s_Go_Crazy The following 24 tracks of audio described here are from the complete, unedited transfer of the “Let’s Go Crazy” multitrack, the full 7-minute version that appears as the ‘Special Dance Mix’. The version of the multitrack in common circulation on the internet has some sections of the tracks muted ·       1. Clap – from the Linn LM-1 drum machine. Possibly triggered manually by Bobby Z. hitting Simmons SDS-V pad during live take. ·       2. Kick – Linn LM-1. Part of the drum loop. ·       3. Snare – Linn LM-1. Looped throughout the song. Except the snare parts at the ending were triggered off another LM-1 with a condenser mic in Bobby’s snare. ·       4. Hi-hat – includes lots of bleed from live take. ·   ...
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The Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic versions

 (last updated: mm/dd/yyyy) Early demo – recorded c. January 1977 at Mike Howlett’s attic studio in Acton, London using his TEAC 4-track recorder. This was before Portastudios were available. Sting is the sole performer on the demo. He plays acoustic guitar (the instrument he wrote it on), bass guitar and a small African drum for accompaniment. Beautiful in its rawest form, slightly Latin-inspired feel too. But was clearly too soft and sentimental for The Police at the time, also accounting for the explosion of punk in the UK. Officially released on Police Academy in 1997 by Mike Howlett. Sting performed an acoustic rendition like this demo on VH1 Storytellers in 1996. 1981 demo – recorded by Sting and keyboardist Jean Roussel in early January 1981 at Le Studio (Morin Heights, Canada), engineered by Nick Blagona. Arguably it is a professional demo this time, not a home demo. The drum machine pattern is identifiably the ‘Bossa Nova’ rhythm preset on a Roland CR78, accompanied b...
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