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I am not a creature of habit.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Creatures
Creatures Of Habit
Habit
Creature
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In August most of Europe goes on holiday.
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August
Europe
Holiday
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My father loved people, children and pets.
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Dad
Children
Father
Pets
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My profession is called record production.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Productions
Profession
Records
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I make records with an open mind, I always have.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Mind
Open Mind
Records
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Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Computers
Classroom
Computer
Replaced
Tape
Virtually
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I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Reviewing
Supernatural
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Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Art
Teen
Martial Arts
Teenager
Years
Martial
Teen Years
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I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Brooklyn
Grew Up
Live Music
Sound
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I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Teacher
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The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Objects
Records
Whatever It Takes
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It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Brand New
Brands
Overlooked
Vintage
Now
Once
Brand
New
Easily
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Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Europe
Guitar
People
Join
Marc
Pick
So Many People
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Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Cities
Paris
World
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You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Gears
Giants
Needs
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We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Albums
Demos
Monsters
Scary
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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Science
Forty
Science Fiction
Today
Years
Years Ago
Forty Years
Regarded
Techniques
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No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Faith
Enormous
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Musician
Took
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Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Instruments
Musician
Records
Sole
Today
Producer
Record Producer
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Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Cities
Rock Star
Rocks
Sleep
Stars
Groupies
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Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Bad Day
Fun
Ideas
Radical
Bad Days
Click
Fun Making
Low
Quite A Lot
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You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Technology
Opinion
Sound
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I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
New York
Copenhagen
Flying
Heartbeat
Never Forget
Writing
Work I Am Will
Work I Am New
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I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Needs
Tape
Thinking
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Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Alive
Brain
Century
Fun
Having Fun
Intense
Pace
Records
Vintage
Fortunately
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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Brilliant
College
Father
Scholarship
School
Awarded
Unfortunately
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Christmas
Smile
Father
Guidance
Song
Ukulele
Good Me Father
Bought
Quickly
Regularly
Thereafter
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Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.
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Artist
Labels
Names
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I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Audio
Instance
Logic
Order
Track
Years
Board
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I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Technology
Passion
Song
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Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Christmas
Smile
Dad
Mom
Italian
Jam
Last Time
Musical
Musical Experience
Session
Harmonica
Sang
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In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Jobs
New York
Federal Reserve
Great Job
Maintenance
Senior
Working Life
Bank
Life Great Father
Landed
Finally
Reserve
Rewarded
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I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Available
Bowie
Young
Good Better Will
Album
Amazingly
David
Original
Year
Earlier
Fact
In Fact
Mixed
Soon
Stereo
Young Americans
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The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Labels
Self
Want
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Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Buying
Contributing
Culture
Giving
Great Music
Profitable
Record Companies
Responsibility
Cultural
Finally
Remind
Trend
Ultimately
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My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Friends
Dad
Humor
Direct
Family And Friends
Fields
Quick Wit
Raised
Records
Sense Of Humor
Surreal
Well Known
Wit
Family Movies Dad
Somewhere
Quick
Spike
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Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Jobs
Bunch
Directors
Performers
Records
Related
Session
Technicians
Charge
Directly
More Or Less
Producer
Music Director
Originally
Participate
Record Producer
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The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Eleven
Fiddle
Guitar
Instruments
Lessons
Paid
Son
Ukulele
Years
Guitar Me Day
Bought
Guitar Lessons
Morgan
Uses
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But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Technology
Artist
Modern Technology
Records
Emerged
Likewise
Organic
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Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Excess
Hardcore
Past
Records
Rock And Roll
Rockers
Rocks
Great Past Me
Great Me Past
Toll
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Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.
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Queens
Groups
Rocks
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The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Dollars
Giving
Groups
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Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.
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Technology
Writing
Years
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I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Different
Dollars
Groups
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Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Albums
Ignored
Records
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Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.
Tony Visconti / Record Producer
Labels
People
Wall
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