The Stephen Desper Thread
Jason:
Mr. Desper, I apologize if this question was asked before (can't find it in the previous forum). Do you have any interesting Zappa stories?
NimrodsSon:
Mr. Desper, we were talking on the other board about the unreleased Denny song "I'm Going Your Way." You said you would know what song it was if you heard an mp3, so I went ahead and sent you a link to download an mp3 on a private message on that board. Did you by any chance get that link? If you didn't and you would still like to hear the song, I can send you a link again, but I don't think this message board is capable of doing private messages, so I would have to do it through email, in which case I'll have to have your email address. I would just post a link right here, but I don't think that's allowed.
Beckner:
See the little IM bubble to the left? That's PM.
JRauch:
Mr. Desper, have you seen that EPK-video on Brian´s site about the recording of the christmas-album or the video about the recording of SMiLE? What are your thoughts about it? How do you compare Brian´s working-style nowadays to how he worked back then with you?
Stephen W. Desper:
Quote from: Toby on December 26, 2005, 02:18:10 PM
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The author(s) of the songs did not want to move forward with their creation and wanted to remove any evidence of same.
What's obvious in Brian's career is that sometimes a song doesn't feel right when it was first recorded, so it's discarded for years and years until the moment's right.
The song was not trashed, only the test recording of how it sounded in a playback was trashed. In fact, the artist could work with the song on their own and make another test at a later date. These little tests or pre-demos were to determine if a song was good enough to even begin to work on. It might be a guitar rendition or a piano representation. In the case of Brian adding the drum parts, the song did not make any sense until he added beats. You know, there were gaps. ~swd
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