By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
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