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One Atmos to rule them all
Steven Wilson was interviewed by Australian outfit Noise11, and he spoke, among other things, about the motivation behind the yet another remix of Made in Japan
Read more »The tall skinny kid
More of the Derek Lawrence recollections of the days gone by. Some of it overlaps with what you may have seen on these pages previously, but it never hurts to do it again.
Read more »The bad news, and the good ones
CBC profiles Bob Ezrin with a lengthy interview, published on the occasion of him receiving a Governor General’s Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award today, June 14, 2025. Music-wise, the interview focuses on just the two “genre-defining” albums from his vast portfolio — Pink Floyd The Wall and Kiss Destroyer. He also mentions that he just got […]
Read more »Next best thing to Quincy
There was quite a bit of talk on these pages recently about the production of Rapture of the Deep, and the role of Michael Bradford in particular. Here is an extended interview with him from a couple of years ago, where he talks about working with Deep Purple, among many other things. The interview doesn’t […]
Read more »Coming home
Globe and Mail writes that Bob Ezrin has renounced his U.S. citizenship and returned home to Toronto from Nashville. The paper quotes his motivation: In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half. The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed […]
Read more »Canadian, eh!
Bob Ezrin is among the recipients of the Canadian 2025 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. This award recognizes artists who have “made an indelible contribution to cultural life in Canada and around the world”. The awards ceremony will be held on June 14, 2025, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. […]
Read more »Shout out of necessity
Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger has a fairly rare beast — an interview with Bob Ezrin. It is published in German, so all the usual caveats about reverse translation fully apply here. Today, studio technology is very different from when you started out with Alice Cooper. In the 21st century, you no longer capture performances live in […]
Read more »But now we’ve got a new machine
The second part of the Sound & Vision interview with Dweezil Zappa on his Machine Head remix. Part 1 was here. Mike Mettler: Did you reference, or at least get to listen to, the previous quad and 5.1 mixes of Machine Head as reference points for your Atmos remix? Dweezil Zappa: I didn’t have access […]
Read more »Anything but lazy
Sound & Vision magazine (of an audiophilious inclination) has an interview with Dweezil Zappa on remixing Machine Head in Atmos surround. Zappa’s Atmos mix of Machine Head—which has quite specifically and very deliberately been dubbed a “remix”—will most definitely challenge the ears of any Deep Purple fan, new or old, who knows the core album […]
Read more »Hear things you didn’t know existed
Dweezil Zappa discusses his mix of Machine Head and compares it to the original
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing