3 sided records/Joe Jackson

[Carl Abraham Zimring]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 17-Jan-99 Re: Steve Earle/old
vinyl/H.. by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Does Genesis' "Three Sides Live" count?

Nope.  Fourth side's studio cuts, not blank vinyl.  Kinda like Graham
Parker's Parkerilla used a disco remix to fill out a live double album.

Back to Jackson: I really enjoyed the production method he used in the
mid-Eighties, with everything arranged and mix levels set when he went
into the studio, then cut live.  Big World was the most extreme record
done this way, but Body  Soul (recorded in a huge room) also sounds
great, almost like a cast album from a jazzy musical.

Carl Z. 

Re: 3 sided records/Joe Jackson

[Tom Smith]

Carl Abraham Zimring wrote:
 
 Big World was the most extreme record
 done this way, but Body  Soul (recorded in a huge room) also sounds
 great, almost like a cast album from a jazzy musical.

Yeah, I think that's a key to understanding a major part of 
his approach.  Before his 1st album, his background was in 
musical theatre.

Tom Smith