Stangely enough, i never hear anybody have a single word about Yellow Magic Orchestra and their fantastic music AND production. YMO was so new, so inventive. Hosono is a true magician. He would deserve as much credit as Hugh, or Trevor Horn.
Hugh Padgham has a way of talking and storytelling that keeps you interested all they way trough.And i find Mr.Bendian one of the the very best podcast interviewers i came across so far.
Great interview! I was a tape op. Unfortunately where I worked you had to practically wait for someone to die before you sat at a desk. I remained a recordist, and archivist for twenty eight years. But I always wanted to be Hugh Padgham.
Although I love the early prog Genesis sound, when Hugh produced their albums they sounded like a million dollars and you could really hear what amazing musicians they were. I was always disappointed that they never used him again after Invisible Touch. Thankyou Hugh for your incredible contribution.
Great interview, as a Genesis, XTC, Gabriel, Police fan (among others Hugh Produced) it was great to hear. He misspoke about producing the first record of the Call... not the Fall. Anyway love that you did these interviews.
Gregg....compliments on this amazing series of progcasts....your knowledge and your ability to listen closely..ask interesting questions...makes these shows utterly superb...thanks
Fantastic seeing this (even being a yr + late) as I've always been curious re names like Padgham who We read on soooo many covers & inserts over the span of a few Decades > indeed talk about being at the right place at the right time.. .& then going onto consistently nailing the Sessions. Well done yet again Gregg....& Hugh.... thanks for allowing Us additional insight into a most prolific era of Recording 🙏
The Gated reverber sound on drums was not first copyrighted on Drums And Wires; This "ambience thing" on tribal drums, big compressed room sound on drums, had already emerged before with producer Steve Lillywhite on Siouxsie and the Banshees' debut album The Scream with a song like Jigsaw Feeling.. So engineer Hugh Padgham didn't all "discover" this; Hugh Padgham could save his speech next time a documentarist will do his homework of research correctly. Hagiographic rock documentaries are a plague.
The song that were cut from the US single disc version of English Settlement were: “Yacht Dance”, “Leisure”, “Knuckle Down”, “Fly On The Wall” and “Down In The Cockpit”.
Hugh has mixed up the name of The Call with The Fall which are very different bands, he’s talking about The Call for sure as he mentioned Michael Beene and that album being on Mercury which it was, their first three albums were on Mercury and their subsequent albums were on Warner Brothers and then MCA. Great band too.
👍 I would add that there were a few disagrements between Genesis and Bruford, but after he left, they did what he probably told them about. All their later albums has that rhythm approach. But for Collins drum sound, yes, 100% Terry Chambers.
I dunno about the punk thing not being interesting, bands like The Damned, The Stranglers, The Clash, The Jam, PiL, Killing Joke and and SiouxsieThe Banshees progressed into different territories.
