The Alan Boyd Thread
Joshilyn Hoisington:
Wow, you truly are the (c-)man. That's neat that you were able to do that.
How many different Engineers have you identified now? Britz, David, Levine, Botnick...what about Lanky Linstrott, Cal Harris, did Jimmy Lockert's voice ever actually appear on a Beach Boys tape? Not much by way of talkback going on in what we have of the sessions Jim co-ordinated.
I know it's not his voice that's a mystery Craig, but have you been able to find anything out about Ralph Balantin? I've turned up zero for him, despite the fact that he engineered what might be considered the Boys best vocal work...
c-man:
Wow...who's Lanky? Must've missed that one!
Desper's voice turns up in a couple of places. Maybe Lockert's.
Is that Balantin in the 1966 control room pics (short balding guy with the short-sleeved shirt & tie, and black frame glasses)? Like in the "Pet Sounds" box booklet (the long one) and 1996 EQ cover story?
guitarfool2002:
Quote from: c-man on January 28, 2006, 05:44:38 PM
Wow...who's Lanky? Must've missed that one!
Desper's voice turns up in a couple of places. Maybe Lockert's.
Is that Balantin in the 1966 control room pics (short balding guy with the short-sleeved shirt & tie, and black frame glasses)? Like in the "Pet Sounds" box booklet (the long one) and 1996 EQ cover story?
The man with the glasses is United/Western engineer Winston Wong, and I think he was often in the role some would call the "assistant" (which explains him sitting behind Britz in that photo). I have another photo of him in yet another Western newsletter as he's setting up a microphone for a session - another assistant role.
guitarfool2002:
I just thought of something...are you talking about the *other* control room shot at (what looks like) Columbia, with yet another guy in a white short-sleeve shirt? The guy with Britz is definitely Winston Wong - the other guy at Columbia, I don't know.
guitarfool2002:
Speaking of mystery engineers - I'd like to bring back a question/discussion that has probably since been lost in the old Smile Shop board archives.
I thought this mystery engineer voice might have been a man named Jerry Ferree, who at the time of this session was the chief engineer at United/Western. Yet I'm not certain "In The Cantina" was tracked at Western...This is from one of Brian and Van Dyke's "In The Cantina" piano sessions, and it went down something like this as Brian was trying to track his piano part:
Brian: How does this sound?
Engineer: I don't like that. There's uh, there's no, no presence at all. That's not for recording.
Van Dyke: Let me go listen.
Brian: What do you mean, it's not...hey, man?
Engineer: You got more of one end of the piano than you do the other end of the piano, man!
Brian: (garbled)...here.
Engineer: Just put it over the center, up a little higher if you want to.
Brian: Hey Jerry, man, listen, you know, maybe I want some kind of (garbled) there, man!
Engineer: (overlaps Brian) Yeah, but I'm tellin' you it don't sound good.
Anonymous: You're listening to it out there...
Brian: Van? Van, would you play the thing I was doing?
Engineer: Yeah, well, that's right, but you don't...
Van: ...which isn't gonna...
Brian: Second, let's just...
Anonymous: Bruce, coffee.
Engineer: Take 12.
What a fun clip. Ring a bell? Does anyone have a record of who engineered that session and had the back-and-forth with Brian about the piano sound?
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