Sound City Page #3

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The human voice sounds better.

When you got harmonies going

together, they kind of meld

together.

You come on with a come-on

You don't fight fair

The Neve console really

embellishes things in the

context of rock 'n' roll.

It's good on drums.

It's good on bass.

It's good on guitars.

It's the facilitator.

It's a pretty badass console.

Hit me with your best

shot

It's unlike any other Neve

console that I have ever worked

on, and I've been lucky enough

to work on a ton of them now.

It would always be the

greatest-sounding desk I've ever

tracked on.

There is a large number of

modules about which look the

same, but which are marginally

different.

The circuit was a microphone

amplifier circuit.

Cross-talk between circuits and

between buses was absolutely

paramount.

The way that transformer behaves

with DC flowing in it can vary

according to the material of the

core and the gapping of the

core.

If those things are properly

controlled, you get a very sweet

sound.

Rupert Neve is a f***ing

genius.

At the time, that Neve

console cost $76,000.

To give you an example, I'd just

bought a house in Toluca Lake,

and I paid $38,000 for the

house.

My wife would've killed me if

she'd known I was doing that.

I thought, "If this place ever

goes under, that's the thing

that will pay all the debts".

The first track we cut on

this was "Crying in the Night"

with Buckingham Nicks.

Very first thing done on that

was that session.

That's how it started.

She was that kind of lady

Times were hard, whoa

We signed them to a

production deal.

They write their own songs.

So all we'd provide would be the

studio, the engineer, and the

tape.

Tom Skeeter and Joe Gottfried

were almost like parental figures to us.

But Keith's the one who got us

out to Sound City.

Crying in the night

She's back in town

When we first moved to L.A., we

didn't have a place.

We stayed at Keith's house.

They're starving and they're

broke.

Lindsey was painting, and Stevie

was cleaning Keith Olsen's

house.

I'd walk through with my

broom, and, you know, Keith

would go, like, "That's the

maid".

And I'd be like...

"I'm not gonna be the maid for

long, just so you know.

Just so y'all know".

But she'll leave you

Cryin' in the night

She will leave you

Cryin' in the night, whoa

It was obvious that Lindsey

and Stevie were really special.

Buckingham Nicks came out in

'73 to great critical acclaim

and then got dropped by Polydor.

The record label dropped

them, so they didn't have a

record deal.

So they were just hanging around

here.

She's a come-on lady

It was like our home.

It was like our home away from

home.

I was living in

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