The Mark Linett Thread
♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇:
What changes did Brian make?
Andreas:
Mark,
the song Soulful Old Man Sunshine (on the Endless Harmomny soundtrack) alternates between stereo in the chorus and fake stereo during the verses. Could you explain why this is the case?
More generally, could you explain what tapes and tracks of this song exist, and how you came up with the finished mix? Were some sections already mixed in 1969? If no original mix or test mix existed, how was the strucutre of the song decided? Do all the instrumental sections exist on multitracks, i.e. would a true stereo instrumental mix have been possible?
Thank you in advance.
JRauch:
In the SMiLE-booklet, Brian is credited with "music, vocals, keyboards". On which parts did he play the keys?
♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇:
I'm thinking it's Wind Chimes, since Brian tends to play keys on that live.
Joshilyn Hoisington:
Mark, a couple of months ago, it dawned on me that the track "Pet Sounds" was tracked in a somewhat unique way from the rest of the tracks from the LP.
The percussion track was tracked first, that's why the first take as presented on the box set doesn't feature any other instruments, right?
Then, playing around with stereo balance and out of phase stereo cancellation and such, I came to the conclusion that there were several more seperate overdubs. The basses are pretty much alone on one track (and must have been tracked by themselves; there seems to be absolutely no leakage from anything on the bass track), and then Brian went out into the booth and played piano while Richie Frost added some drums and the horn section did their thing. Am I correct so far?
I wondered on the old bored if it was done this way partly because there weren't enough percussion players to pull off what Brian wanted live, and then since there was the preexisting percussion track, the group would have had to use headphones, of which there may not have been enough for everyone at once?
So then, there would have been an additional horn overdub, a reduction to a new tape, then the bongos, and the two lead guitar overdubs?
I may be way off base, but I think there's some interesting stuff going on there.
On another note, there has been much written about your process for remixing Pet Sounds, but how similar or different was the process for your remixes of the Smiley Smile and Wild Honey material for Hawthorne?
Vegetables and Let the Wind Blow are my two favourite remixes of yours, and I've wondered if everything was present on an eight-track, or if some synching had to be done, etc. Also, if you did any other mixes from those albums potentially for Hawthorne that didn't make the cut.
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