Re: Talmy threatens

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>                At first I didn't put a lot of credence in The Who's 
>     complaints about Talmy's production, or lack thereof, of the 1965 
>     recordings; after all, look what he did for The Kinks.  Then I read 
>     Ray Davies' book "X-Ray" which corroborates a lot of it.  Ray tells 
>     about the last "Shel Talmy" production, "Dead End Street."  Ray 
>     actually produced it, Shel came in, listened to it, said he didn't 
>     like it and left.  A few days later Ray played him the same tape and 
>     Shel gave it the OK.  That's when Ray decided "who needs him?"

Brian:

X-Ray didn't give me that impression (and let's face it...by DES the
relationship between Davies and Talmy had gone sour...let's not forget that
the book was written BY Davies). In fact, proof positive of Talmy's work VS
Davies can be seen by comparing SOMETHING ELSE to VGPS. VG has terrible
production...overloads and poor mixing. And that was the first complete
Davies album production. SE was cutting edge production when it was
released...brilliant use of stereo and layering (and other stuff I don't
know the technical name for). I know that RD claims that Talmy left early on
during the making of this LP, but the evidence shows otherwise. I have no
doubt that RD did indeed co-produce SE, but I think that Talmy "tidied up"
after him, perhaps even without this knowledge (let us not forget that ST
was hired by the label, not The Kinks...and Reprise was probably nervous
about letting Davies produce after the string of successes Talmy had).
Should Talmy remix and re-produce MY GENERATION? I cannot be definite
without hearing it. It will be better that what we have now, no doubt about
that. It will be in stereo, too...which would be a plus. Could Astley do it
better? That is definitely the question...perhaps the deal should be for
both to do it and the band decide which is better. Does anyone think that's
at all possible? If so, I have some swampland...uh, I mean commercial
property in a high occupancy area...yeah, that is even true...um, that I
want to sell cheap!




                   Cheers                   ML

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."  L. Long