Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Kate and Craftspersonship Message-ID: <8702130147.AA25024@ernie.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 20:47:34 EST Article-I.D.: ernie.8702130147.AA25024 Posted: Thu Feb 12 20:47:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Feb-87 23:18:46 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Pandora's Box Lines: 20 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: ebm@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Grady Toss) Jumping into the fray... As far as modern (e.g. rock oriented) crafting goes, I don't think anyone even comes close to the maniacal intensity of Mr. Mono, Phil Spector. From his early "girl-group" tracks, to Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" to the opening chord of The Ramones' "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (which he purportedly listened to hundreds of versions of), Spector is the absolute champ of no-sound-gets-on-this-record-unless-it's-perfect. Back to Mono, ... g rady t oss -- "And with God as my waitress, I know I'll always have a clean spoon." -- Michael Monahan, The Terminators of Endearment