Ditto on the Spector comment. I don't have a lot of Spector session tapes downloaded, but it definitely sounds like a more determined, serious approach on his part.
On Brian's SOT sessions, you can feel the wheels turning in his head and you can sense his natural positive enthusiasm. Probably was a nice change of pace for the WC after working with the chain smoking Spector.
Whadya mean, chain smoking? Phil didn't smoke cigs. Not then.
Although, the (way too tall) dude who played him in
an American family smoked.
Also, Phil said "here we go", and "let's make it" a lot. Brian did too.
Is that just universal producer talk, or Brian emulating his
hero?