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- Smoking Guns
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- metallex78
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Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
Mike Clink captured the GN'R sound perfectly to my ears, lots of space to hear all the instruments and vocals. To me, that guy is just as responsible for their trademark sound as the band is.
Would've been very interesting to see what he would've done with the production of CD...
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
But he nailed Lies and AFD.... I think his production was maybe off to you because Axl only. Axl was huge into the over produced sounds, and still is today...
Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
I'm kinda late to the party here, and I only skimmed a lot of the posts so if this has been touched on already sorry.
Thinking about this, a lot of what Ezrin is saying is damn close to what Rick Rubin said when he was turned away from producing what would become Libertad. It's pretty telling that both sides of the GNR coin weren't willing to compromise even if it was in their best interest.
I'll say exactly now what I said about Velvet Revolver then, just substitute the new name: When a guy like Bob Ezrin tells you you need to do more writing, you need to do more writing.
Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
But he nailed Lies and AFD.... I think his production was maybe off to you because Axl only. Axl was huge into the over produced sounds, and still is today...
No, he just didn't fit that material. I agree, he was perfect on AFD and LIES, but they had a totally different sound than UYI.
- metallex78
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Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
I love the sound Mike Clink produced for UYI. The guitars still sound great, as do the vocals and drums.
But then, I discovered GnR with UYI, then went back to AFD and Lies, so maybe my opinion differs to most.
- monkeychow
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Re: Bob Ezrin talks Axl and Chinese
Plus keep in mind poor Mike Clink is generating that sound around a lot of requirements.
Slash and Izzy wanted it to be a straight up rock and roll band, so that's going to dictate a certain approach to your mix and sounds.
Meanwhile Axl was very interested in softer Elton John type stuff which would normally be produced pretty differently...not to mention the sound effects and so on.
I think it's an album of compromise for everyone.
