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Surprising credits
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 20:21
by Charlie O.
I was just looking at a CD by the young classical musician Joshua Bell, called Romance of the Violin, and noticed the small print on the back:
Produced by CRAIG LEON AND GRACE ROW
All tracks arranged by CRAIG LEON
Craig Leon produced the debut LPs by The Ramones, Suicide, and The Primitives, the Bangles' first EP, and produced and/or engineered records by Blondie, The Roches, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Beat Farmers, 45 Grave, The Weirdos, The Fall, Rodney Crowell, Moon Martin, Front 242, and many others.*
Now, that's a fairly diverse CV in and of itself, but Joshua Bell??
Seen any names in the small print lately that surprised you?
* Yes, I had a little help there from AllMusic.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 20:48
by Jeff K
Jack Bruce playing bass on all but two tracks on this album...
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 20:56
by Jeff K
Leggy Mountbatten wrote:he played on this, too:
no, seriously.
that's more up his alley than Lou Reed, I would think.
How about Lowell George and a couple of the other Little Feat guys playing back up to John Cale on Paris 1919.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 22:06
by McBastard
Nanette Newman - backing vocals on Let It Bleed.
Really??
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 22:12
by Muskrat
As I recall, it was a misprint; Stone printed an article profiling Nanette Workman as the gal in question.
But I may be totally wrong.
Though
I'm not.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 22:30
by Charlie O.
Jeff K wrote:Jack Bruce playing bass on all but two tracks on this album...
Steve Winwood's all over it, too, which I find even stranger.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 22:35
by Jeff K
Charlie O. wrote:Jeff K wrote:Jack Bruce playing bass on all but two tracks on this album...
Steve Winwood's all over it, too, which I find even stranger.
Is he actually credited though?
I know he's on the album but I don't recall seeing his name mentioned in the liner notes.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 22:55
by Charlie O.
Jeff K wrote:I know he's on the album but I don't recall seeing his name mentioned in the liner notes.
It was on the LP, I'm pretty sure...
Re: Surprising credits
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 23:11
by Mychael
Charlie O. wrote:I was just looking at a CD by the young classical musician Joshua Bell, called Romance of the Violin, and noticed the small print on the back:
Produced by CRAIG LEON AND GRACE ROW
All tracks arranged by CRAIG LEON
Craig Leon produced the debut LPs by The Ramones, Suicide, and The Primitives, the Bangles' first EP, and produced and/or engineered records by Blondie, The Roches, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Beat Farmers, 45 Grave, The Weirdos, The Fall, Rodney Crowell, Moon Martin, Front 242, and many others.*
Now, that's a fairly diverse CV in and of itself, but Joshua Bell??
Not so surprising really.
Looks more like some kind of development (at least from HIS perspective!): He started out as an engineer with the Ramones and Suicide stuff, then went on to (more or less) big productions, and a quick look at his website reveals that he's almost exclusively involved with classical music for the last 10 years.
In the late 90s he produced some rather new-agey albums for his wife Cassell Webb - as well as working with Germany's Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub (who hired him for his "No New York scene"-credentials and were surprised when a mellow elderly Professor-type bloke turned up who was into Stockhausen and Russian composers
)
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 13:21
by Crispy B Franklin
Sharleen Spiteri from Texas is on Tomorrow the Green Grass by The Jayhawks.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 13:43
by Andrew Lou Goldman
Brian Eno plays on the "Hail" album by Graham Lewis' (Wire) solo project, He Said.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 13:50
by Crispy B Franklin
Raul Castro wrote:Brian Eno plays on the "Hail" album by Graham Lewis' (Wire) solo project, He Said.
He crops up all over the place though. He's even on Coldplay's X&Y (synths on one track). And Measure for Measure by Icehouse (keyboards, treatments and vocals on most tracks).
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 14:07
by bhoywonder
A little wihle ago I noticed something interesting on this:
In that Garth Hudson and (I think) Levon Helm (possibly Rick Danko) play on a couple of songs, completely independent of each other.
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 14:19
by Limpin' Jez McKenzie
famously but still surprisingly Luther Vandross's crops up on Young Amercians by David Bowie, and Sly and Robbie were given their big break by Joan Armatrading (I can't remember which album - Walk under ladders maybe?
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 16:16
by My name is Spaulding
Itstoolatebaby wrote:Sly and Robbie were given their big break by Joan Armatrading (I can't remember which album - Walk under ladders maybe?
Stewart Copeland also played on one Armatrading album ("The key", I think)
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 16:22
by Crispy B Franklin
Bob Spaulding wrote:Itstoolatebaby wrote:Sly and Robbie were given their big break by Joan Armatrading (I can't remember which album - Walk under ladders maybe?
Stewart Copeland also played on one Armatrading album ("The key", I think)
I believe members of Genesis played on her song "Drop the Pilot" (maybe just from their touring band?)
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 16:47
by Limpin' Jez McKenzie
Floella Benjamin is on the original London cast album of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Also Joan Armatrading appears on queen's album A Kind of Magic
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 17:04
by Scally Mcgrew
He
sings backing vocals on this
Well, they
are brothers!
Posted: 06 Sep 2006, 17:06
by JQW
I bet he's glad he didn't also have a brother called Dick.
Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 14:32
by Nervous Ned
Steve Howe played on the 1st Lou Reed album (as did Rick Wakeman ... but he played on every recording at this point in time
)