Behind the Recording of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars!

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Released in 1972, Ziggy was Davis Bowie’s big breakthrough album that truly brought him to the masses. Performing as an otherworldly rockstar, Bowie created a captivating character and an incredible album. Here is a look at how it was recorded, highlighting the methods and equipment used to make this classic record!
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@PeterKirkMusician 4 месяца назад

Sure on of the top 5 albums ever. It's perfect in every way, songs, musicians, production.

@jaysonwilliams371 Месяц назад

Completely..Unlike anything anyone ever did before or since sadly..❤❤❤❤

@markkumanninen6524 4 месяца назад

It blew my mind. I was sixteeen and soon hoarded anything Bowie.

@-______-______- 4 месяца назад

It's such a fantastic, high quality album.

@pauldavis6880 8 дней назад

I feel it did... because all the cuts are so much different from one another! 1972 Ziggy live...it was awesome live!!!

@rixvspinner 3 месяца назад

Ken Scott was is such a great engineer, one of the best of his generation. The combination of Bowie, Ronson and Scott was what made these albums great.

@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc 3 месяца назад

The entire band were great

@idaslpdhr 4 месяца назад

I heard 'The man who sold the world' at 6th form and that was it, by the time Ziggy arrived I was well and truly hooked

@Tawny6702 3 месяца назад

Have you heard the 2020 Visconti remix of ‘the man who sold the world’ ‘Metrobolist’ which was album’s original name! I wasn’t expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised!

@beastieboy9286 19 дней назад

@@Tawny6702I preferred the original darker mix but the remix was interesting

@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc 3 месяца назад

Hunky Dory & Ziggy I now consider to be my faves, the lyrics blew my mind when I was 10 and 11 yrs old.

@aaronc675 4 месяца назад

One thing I will point out: When ZIGGY was recorded, Bowie still had his long blonde hair (like on the Hunky Dory album cover). I always pictured Bowie recording the ZIGGY album with RED HAIR, but nope. This detail is from KEN SCOTT's amazing book (which I highly recommend) called "Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust" - It wasn't until after the ZIGGY album was recorded and Bowie was about to play a big show to debut the Ziggy songs that his wife (Angie) convinced him to cut his hair and dye it red, etc. - LOVE this video! Great job!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you and cheers for the info!

@ihateyoutubecomments8100 2 месяца назад

You are absolutely correct. Which, in addition, makes the pictures shown in the video even more confusing to people.

@jaysonwilliams371 Месяц назад

Cheers sweetie

@wads_o_hair 4 месяца назад

Ken Scott has always been one of the top record engineers and producers. He even got a character in the Brian Pern series modeled on him!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

He’s great! I need to watch Brian Perm again, I forgot about that 😅

@hekakain4108 4 месяца назад

The Man Who Sold The World album is another favourite that I put side by side with the Ziggy album along with the Hunky Dory album, I could go on...

@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL 4 месяца назад

❤

@kevanalbrighton5887 4 месяца назад

my 2nd LP, after Aladdin Sane, I was 13. Still listen to it regularly

@billyshane3804 3 месяца назад

Mick RONSON

@DevinRyanVitek Месяц назад

5:50 magic! Ronno the beast

@xoxb2 4 месяца назад

Fascinating details. My older brother got it new, I was five years away from buying records yet. It's always struck me how it manages to be such a warm, atmospheric work, yet with a really sparse instrumentation. There's a lot of room between the instruments, yet it gives a memory of fulness. Thanks for the video, and for what I take to be a picture of David (with perm) in Beckenham, where the Free Festival happened and Life on Mars was written, down the road from where I grew up.

@chrisnewman7281 4 месяца назад

Hard to imagine that this type of analog technology could be closely replicated digitally

@paulyeomans850 4 месяца назад

I bought it when it first came out

@andyrose2158 3 месяца назад

Great finally confirmation that a lot of 70s recordings at Trident were not done on a Trident desk but a Sound Techniques desk, Danny White in LA bought all the design rights and now makes the desks again. I have one of his 2 U mic amp eq units which is excellant - particularly making my old STC 4038s come alive

@DMSProduktions 4 месяца назад

Very nice! Good anecdotes to know about this classic Bowie album! Love many of the tracks on this! \m/

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! It’s such a great album, I had to find out how they recorded it.

@simonroyjonesuk 4 месяца назад

Fascinating. Thank you. I've been a Bowie fan for 50 years and didn't know most of this.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! 😃

@xoxb2 4 месяца назад

Same here - pre-internet these things weren't known, and it's fascinating to hear it after all these years.

@ROBERTANDERSEN 4 месяца назад

At 4:34, that image is from a Peter Gabriel recording session. Gabriel is at the bottom left, David Rhodes bottom right, Tony Levin on Stick in the middle, and Jerry Marotta on drums hidden away.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

It sure is! A good picture to show where the drum booth is at Trident.

@DavidByrden1 3 месяца назад

A bio of Bowie - I forget which - describes him in the USA, at a party, where he encountered a "new age" guru type, and that man had a silver disc glued to his forehead. The disc had been micro-inscribed so that it was iridescent - an unfamiliar novelty in those days (he must have had access to a university's engineering faculty or a lab). And so was born the silver circle on Ziggy's forehead - but Bowie's version was just paint.

@harryballs5080 4 месяца назад

I used to be in a band in the eighties and I played guitar. We played Hang On To Yourself and I could never quite get the tone that Ronson had. Now I know why.

@marcusbrothers5221 3 месяца назад

It must be studio witchcraft. How many times have you heard that an artist needs one more song and they create a masterpiece in no time flat. Prince's when doves cry was fulfilling a last minute request for a single.

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

It does seem to happen a lot, maybe they're in the groove by this point and focused.

@TALKCalgary 3 месяца назад

Fascinating and comprehensive review!

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@StarMoonAngelsz 4 месяца назад

DAVID BOWIE WAS AWESOME O! HE IS A TRUE ICON.

@sexobscura 4 месяца назад

after stealing Marc Bolan's thunder

@Scotlanz 3 месяца назад

Nice video. Thanks.

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@DavidMichaelMarek 3 месяца назад

All these decades later, and I did not know Davies wrote, It Ain't Easy!

@shermanmiller1458 4 месяца назад

Classic!!

@jlsemmes 4 месяца назад

Oh this is great info !

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you’

@wearethedreameaters 4 месяца назад

this is really great, you guys should do more of these, it's weird how few videos talk in detail about how gear was used on a classic recording. what's goin on, songs in the key of life, led zep 4, paranoid!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you, I’m definitely going to be doing a lot more . Led Zep II coming this week!

@Foldisfitch 2 месяца назад

GREATNESS!

@nicktamer4969 4 месяца назад

Thanks for that video. Lot of studio pictures here came from Pin ups sessions in Hérouville, France.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! Yeah, very few photos available from the Ziggy sessions unfortunately.

@christopherbullock2644 4 месяца назад

He also played a 12 string Harptone guitar, especially on tour.

@MrVulcanbomber 3 месяца назад

What a fantastic video ❤️

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

Thank you! 🙏

@liammogan257 4 месяца назад

Great videos sir. I see big things for you in the future!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say 🙂

@rachelar 3 месяца назад

"It aint Easy" didn't fit at all, now its confirmed why

@johnboylan3591 3 месяца назад

Replace it with quicksand from hunky dory and you have the perfect album.

@paulketchupwitheverything767 4 месяца назад

I'm sure I've got 'Round and Round' (that didn't make it on to the album) on the B side of a Bowie single.

@domb8448 4 месяца назад

Drive-in Saturday b-side..

@mikaelsjodin1963 4 месяца назад

Those were the days, when songwriters, arrangers, producers, musicians and singers still had to be talented and capable!

@louise_rose 4 месяца назад

A truly classic album, nice to know some more about how the sound was achieved. One thing I noticed even at he age of twelve is, it's not really a *fat*, hard rock sound - the sonic image feels light and near transparent, and there's much more separation between the instruments than on let's say a Zeppelin album, or even an Elton John album. Even the title track isn't overtly loud, it has a crisp feeling to it. Maybe that was why they added the note "To be Played at Maximum Volume"? ;)

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

‘Crisp’ is a great way to describe it. It does have really good dynamics and the drums and vocals sound great!

@nicktamer4969 4 месяца назад

Ken Scott was the "clear line" of sound mixing (for compare with comics drawners like Hergé). Opposite of Glyn Johns "fluffy sound" (I love both). It's interesting to compare 2nd and 3rd album of Procol Harum, "Shine on brighty" made by Johns in 1968 and "A Salty Dog" made by Scott in 1969. Just two years after Ziggy, Scott achieve his sound masterpiece with the 5 years ahaead of its time "Crime of the century" by Supertramp. And in between, there was the all aclaimed Lou (Bowie/Ronson) Reed's "Transformer".

@user-kj6nc4yg5q 4 месяца назад

A lot to do with the small amount of compression used in comparison to many other records of the time. One of the reasons that one can listen to these songs over and over is that they don’t induce the ear fatigue that modern stuff does with all the heavy compressors compressing compressors.

@louise_rose 4 месяца назад

@@user-kj6nc4yg5q Yes, I completely agree that modern pop/rock records tend to be very heavy on compression (and on automated trap beats, too) which is grating on the ear after a while. Compare modern hit records with Steely Dan or classic soul wax! And one of the reasons, no doubt, is that the more recent tracks are produced for people who want to be able to listen to them on their walk-in phones or ipods, out in the street or in other buzzy situations...so the sound has to be able to penetrate past the background noise.

@bertenqvist7324 4 месяца назад

RCA demanded Bowie to make a rockier album who would sell more widely, Bowie had recently made his most icon song from that decade Life On Mars with Rick Wakeman on the piano, which been voted many times as top 5 most influencial songs of the 70th among (Imagine, Hotel California, Bohemian Raphsody, Heart Of Glass, Anarchy in the UK, Yesterday Once More, Yellow Brick Road, Smoke on the Water, I´m not in Love, etc etc) Queen Bitch in Honky Dory who haven´t been released yet is actually the start for Ziggy Stardust.

@Xxxxxrrr6464 4 месяца назад

Great work I subscribed

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! 🙏

@BlackMarketYoga 4 месяца назад

At 4:04 I am somewhat sure you have added a photo of Bob Daisley... bassist for Ozzy

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

You’re right. Right type of bass, wrong bassist! 😂

@tbx59 4 месяца назад

Rick Wakeman eat your heart out! Here we go.

@louise_rose 4 месяца назад

He was on tour with Yes at the time - 1972 was also their big breakthrough year in America. There's no way he could realistically have been a full part of Bowie's band for this album, but he felt absolutely thrilled when Bowie played him some of the early song drafts for Hunky Dory, just the two of them in the room with Bowie singing and playing his guitar.

@PATRICKCLARK-yp6so 4 месяца назад

Pull my strings and I’ll go far

@Digitalmindseye 4 месяца назад

You REEALLY gotta trust a drummer to use U67s on toms!!! 🤑 Great vid and wonderful insight on one of my favorite albums, thank you.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you! That’s the first thing I thought. If I had some U67’s then I’d be extremely reluctant to put them anywhere near toms! 😅.

@cyclesgoff9768 4 месяца назад

Ronnos LP languishing in a Hardrock Cafe 😱

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

I know, at least it’s out of there now. Hopefully being used for making music now.

@alibugra1262 4 месяца назад

Great video. Its madness that the view are too low.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you ! 🙏

@alibugra1262 4 месяца назад

With given time, I think these videos will blow up. Keep up the good work !

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

@@alibugra1262 That's so kind of you to say. Thank's for the encouragement! 🙂

@amess0stuff89 3 месяца назад

Ken Scott is a wonderful person - and brilliant! Check his book, "From Abbey Road To Ziggy", the only music bio I know where the author interviews many of his past artists in the present.

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the tip! I want to do a video on Ken and some point.

@rbennettmusictube 3 месяца назад

@@mixingmasteringonline He would probably accept an interview, though I haven't kept up on what he's been doing lately

@Menieres4Life 3 месяца назад

The whole Ziggy Stardust persona came from Marc Bolan who pushed Bowie in that direction ensuring him that it would be his way to break thru.

@anmaruberuss 3 месяца назад

In my humble opinion, Marc Bolan would have had the same longevity that Bowie had. Both superb musicians and both ahead of their time.

@jasoncdebussy 3 месяца назад

"Assuring him"

@SCOTT-ki3ve 4 месяца назад

Mick, Trevor & "Woodsy" are God's of rock who never got their due. They should have gone solo together as "The Spiders From Mars", they'd have been more popular than Bowie. People would have been lining uo to work with them.

@michaelkoszowski3716 4 месяца назад

They did and the album failed . It's a shame because all three of them were excellent .

@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc 3 месяца назад

I agree the whole band were great

@MFWhite 4 месяца назад

Stardust

@richardtorres3299 25 дней назад

At 4:35: Levin on Stick? Peter Gabriel's back to us?

@nocode881 4 месяца назад

Funny, because Ken Scott’s drums are just the best sounding ever in my opinion. Obviously this is one persons taste, but I’m pretty sure lots agree too.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Absolutely, they sound great!

@marcusbrothers5221 3 месяца назад

Why isn't there a Bowie movie

@mixingmasteringonline 3 месяца назад

Good point! Got to be one soon.

@TheVROCKER87 4 месяца назад

Marshall 200* The “Major” was a 200w plexi and PA.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

There were 3 version's it seems. Lead, Bass and PA, although the PA version had PA in its name by the looks of it.

@briankehew579 3 месяца назад

Plexiglass amps came in the '60s, before the Major series was available. Like most Marshalls you could buy a PA version, bass, or "Lead" (guitar) version - not very different really.

@TheVROCKER87 3 месяца назад

@@briankehew579 What's your point?

@johnnyplunkett8532 4 месяца назад

It should be a regular movie...with a bit more exposition and a better ending.. Diamond Dogs as well.

@Dragon_rls 4 месяца назад

My butt hurts... (David Bowie1973)

@SamHarrisonMusic 4 месяца назад

Imagine sticking a U67 on Tom Toms now… aren’t they worth about the value of a house now?

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Pretty much. Definitely something to only try if you’re recording in someone else’s studio!

@BankzittenopZuid 4 месяца назад

Vince Taylor was English

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Actually British/American . Born in England then moved to the states when he was 7. Went back to England in adulthood. I didn’t know much about him and presumed he was more American than British.

@BankzittenopZuid 4 месяца назад

@@mixingmasteringonline I like your channel

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Thank you!

@pnichols6500 3 месяца назад

I have a remastered that was pressed in Germany, lacks depth and soundstage and wasn't impressed, need to give it another listen and compare to streaming to see if I just have a poor copy.

@paulrichart7040 4 месяца назад

Mate, pretty sure he used a Haptone L12n for Ziggy Stardust, not the Hagstrom 12

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

He used the Harptone for the Ziggy tour but the Hagstrom for the recording by all accounts.

@jabezhane 4 месяца назад

I read somewhere that all takes were done on 'fresh tape', just as well or no wonder Bowie pushed for them to get it down in one or two takes if so.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Cool, I didn’t know that, thanks for sharing.

@cherylscott6673 4 месяца назад

That’s not true. Ken said some were but some were ones he went over again.

@rayhartman9486 4 месяца назад

everyone got rid of the first 3 top bottoms of their shirts..it made the record sound more cocaine...

@ytgibbo 4 месяца назад

Vince Taylor was English, not American.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Actually English/American. Moved to the states when he was 7 and returned to England in adulthood.

@gertlungmaskin1210 4 месяца назад

That is an AKG 414 and not a C12.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

No it’s a AKG C12A. You’re likely confused by the body shape which is similar to the 414.

@jasoncdebussy 3 месяца назад

Rick Wakeman didn't "leave", he was never part of the band

@idiotdrummer60 4 месяца назад

Vince Taylor was a Brit, not Amwrican

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

Wiki said English-American as he moved to America as a child. I presumed he was more American as I didn’t know much about him but it seems that’s because he was much bigger in Europe than the UK.

@davidcopson5800 4 месяца назад

@@mixingmasteringonline Both wrong. Vince Taylor was an alien. And DB was loving the alien!

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

@@davidcopson5800 That explains it! 🙂

@PhatLvis 4 месяца назад

"Complement" (with an "LE") means to complete - as in "a full complement." The phrase "to compliment" (with an "LI") has no proper meaning other than "to pay a compliment" (e.g., "He complimented the chef on a fine meal"). Confusion likely sets in upon hearing (but not Reading) a statement such as "The new goalkeeper complements the team." The error would then seem to stem from assuming that "compliment" can be interchanged with "flatter" (e.g., "The dress flatters her" - which is proper English) - and thus the mistaken switcheroo is made. Misuse of "compliment" in this fashion is now rampant due to the RU-vid Feedback Loop - wherein video-makers parrot one another's errors.

@davidcopson5800 4 месяца назад

I compliment you on that complete sentence. And we must be careful here because in America recently, a man who was convicted for speaking too slowly died in prison. He was halfway through his sentence. And let us be aware that, egregious as it to confuse compliment and complement, there are those on RU-vid busy telling us that, 'they could 'of' done better than that'; or responding to some round-shouldered pleb with, ' 'your' a complete asshole'. And of course there are many who cannot distinguish between 'there' and 'their', which is their fault, and for which they're to be blamed. And, lest it escape our attention for even a moment, in the land of the bald, the man with a single hair is not necessarily king.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

The word is 'Complemented'. Which is widely understood to mean 'goes well with' as well as 'completed'. It does sound like I say 'Complimented' though.

@kingcormack8004 4 месяца назад

The original pressing of this album sounds shitty, way overcompressed but that was the new thing at the time. That it was one of RCA's first releases pressed on the new thin flexible vinyl hurt it too.

@mixingmasteringonline 4 месяца назад

I was hoping to find an original pressing. Maybe I won’t bother after hearing that. I just have it on CD from the 90’s.

@cherylscott6673 4 месяца назад

Ahh you must have gotten the American pressing. The original British one were excellent quality vinyl. ?? Over compressed. No compression used 🤷🏻‍♀️

@kingcormack8004 4 месяца назад

Good to know. Our American RCA had just introduced a new vinyl pressing format and I've always wondered if the compression was to accommodate that. I'll keep ears open for the Brit version.@@cherylscott6673

@kingcormack8004 4 месяца назад

You'd probably do better sonically with a modern remastered 180gram reissue.@@mixingmasteringonline

@jackwezesa1081 4 месяца назад

@@cherylscott6673I have the US RCA Dynaflex copy from 72 . It just sounds too mechanical to me , nothing to do with the thinner vinyl in my opinion.

@sexobscura 4 месяца назад

*The most well-known concept album without being one. How The Stooges and the VU factor into this album is beyond me, because there's really no comparison. A great album that is an important one for the Bowie story, but TMWSTW is far superior*