In honor of Spoons excellent new release They Want My Soul (and also: survival past the 20-year mark as a functioning rock band), were making our full interview with them from 2002 available to all subscribers for a bit. Enjoy! We didnt have a piano at the time, so we did a dump of a mix to his 4-track, [Britt] broke into the University of Texas practice rooms with a couple of mics — and set them up. Didnt you go once with a condenser mic but didnt have any phantom power so you had to come back? Britt: Yeah! Jim: So he recorded them on his 4-track and threw them into Pro Tools and flew them back onto the 8-track. Well, everything was not in time. The 4-track recorded slower, so I spent a couple of days editing 4 bars at a time — syncing it with the 1 and then flying it back. LC: Youd think at that point it would be cheaper to buy a piano and put it in the back. Jim: [laughing] Well never go through that again. Its funny when all these things were happening, Im sitting here editing and talking to Britt, and were having all these Tape Op moments. Britt: Like when the reel jumped off of the tape machine and ripped in half in the middle of…” tapeop/interviews/27/spoon/
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:23:58 +0000
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