Moments in music where you'd liked to have been a fly-on-the-wall

[happypig]

When Malcolm mclaran turned to John Lydon and said, " lets fly down to Brazil and make a record with Ronnie Biggs"

I thought it was Jones & Cook who went to Rio.

 

[METALMICKY]

I'd would love to been in the studio when Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on recording St Anger said " hey guys I think that snare drum sound is really cool. Who ever suggested no guitar solos should be called to task!

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Berry Gordy telling Frank Wilson "Do I Love You" will not be released

 

[Weststander]

Abbey Road Studios on the day that Day in The Life came together, played in its entirety.

 

[loz]

I thought it was Jones & Cook who went to Rio.

Yes it was but the idea was mooted while John was still in the band....if you believe his side of the story he was not best impressed

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

To be fair, it's a great track though It's not very prog rock either Surely Rush are a power trio with prog rock leanings?

Would have liked to have been present for the recording of 'Meddle' or 'The Wall' by Floyd or 'Alice' by Tom Waits.

It's a fantastic track, arguably their most commercial one I guess. And it certainly packs in a lot in addition to the reggae bit. I have a number of Rush albums up to and including Power Windows but I don't know enough about the prog genre to say whether they're more a power trio or not. A great band.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'd would love to been in the studio when Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on recording St Anger said " hey guys I think that snare drum sound is really cool. Who ever suggested no guitar solos should be called to task!

The bass drums on Justice sound like Tupperware as well.

 

[METALMICKY]

The bass drums on Justice sound like Tupperware as well.

Appalling production all round and not forgetting that famously they virtually turned of Newsted's bass as part of the "hazing" ritual they inflicted to help them get over Burton's death. WTF!

I thought the St Anger snare was pure biscuit tin!

 

[KZNSeagull]

When, having produced a string of magnificent albums culminating in "Pornography", someone agreed with Fat Bob that it was a great idea to follow this up with "Let's go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Love Cats".

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

When Eric Clapton and Duane Allman first met. The link below is to a not very good account of it, but it was while Clapton was recording the first Derek and the Dominoes album "Layla and other assorted Love Songs".

They had been each other's guitar heroes for a long time, with Clapton being knocked out by Allman's guitar solo on the Wilson Pickett version of Hey Jude. Clapton was taken to an Allman Brothers' gig by Tom Dowd, and when they were introduced afterwards, they just sat up all night in a hotel room trading guitar licks and "how did you do that" questions.

Duane Allman ended up playing on most of the Layla album, and famously contributed the opening riff for Layla itself. He is my all-time guitar hero, (and Clapton has always rated fairly highly with me since being a devoted Cream fan at school in the1960s). Allman is there as my avatar and Layla has always been one of my favourite albums.

http://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/758-When-Clapton-met-Duane-Allman

 

[FamilyGuy]

Abbey Road Studios on the day that Day in The Life came together, played in its entirety.

Oh yeh! I want this one too.

 

[DavidRyder]

Not a historic moment, but I'd have liked to have been at the Forum in Tunbridge Wells when Oasis played there as nobodies. (The Forum is a converted public loo, so v small).

 

[Mellotron]

Watching Brian Wilson work during the Pet Sounds sessions.

Spend time with Bowie and Iggy in Berlin as Bowie attempts to come off drugs, make 3 phenomenal albums, and spend some time living as a woman, as an experiment (of course).

 

[rocker959]

To be a fly on the wall in his abandoned car and follow Manic Street Preacher's Richey Edwards when he left it to find out what happened to him for his family and friends sake .

 

[pearl]

To be a fly on the wall in his abandoned car and follow Manic Street Preacher's Richey Edwards when he left it to find out what happened to him for his family and friends sake .

nice one

 

[Titanic]

I'd go back to Vienna in 1795 and ask Ludwig what he thought he was playing at with the 1st 12 bars of what turned out to be Symphony No. 1 in C major.

#crazy