Re: George Martin
Date: April 19, 2005 17:44
Elmo, I have thought about this very often! In fact George Martin has done a fantastic job. If you listen to remixed stuff like on the "1" CD, the production sounds very fresh and well balanced even in nowadays standards. If you then listen to Forty Licks, it is just not comparable. With George Martin the Stones stuff would have been recorded with much better sound - BUT: George Martin really was a producer, he was the one who convinced Paul to record "Yesterday" solo and wrote a classical arrangement for it. He had quite a lot influence musically until the White Album - Helter Skelter, Revolution No. 9 and Why Don´t We Do It In The Road was the stuff that he hated. The Beatles then had kind of freed from his influence.
My point: With George Martin the Stones would have had a better sound, but the arrangement would also have been more polished - and I don´t know if we would really like to hear clean versions of that early Stones garage rock stuff.