experience, because the two of you worked incredibly closely together, didn t you? yeah, it was unlike something i d done up to that point. for the most part during the 90s, most records were done in more of a piecemealway, multitrack, and sometimes the songs wouldn t even be written when an artist would come to the studio. songs would be built up piece by piece, layered, and things like that. which was a very cool process, and the first two records i did with david were very much in that vein. but this time we thought we would go more of an old school route and rehearse the band. the band would then go out and perform and kind of get to know each other really well musically and get on that wavelength together. we did that by playing glastonbury together and bbc radio theatre, and performed a couple of toy songs then. after that we came back to new york, took a couple of days off and then went right into the studio to start recording them.
songs were all split between different producers, different studios, musicians. they all sounded very different, not very cohesive. and the idea was we would select a batch of these songs and rerecord them with one group of people, with us producing all of this. and tell us about the recording experience, because the two of you worked incredibly closely together, didn t you? yeah, it was unlike something i d done up to that point. for the most part during the 90s, most records were done in more of a piecemealway, multitrack, and sometimes the songs wouldn t even be written when an artist would come to the studio. songs would be built up piece by piece, layered, and things like that. which was a very cool process, and the first two records i did with david were very much in that vein. but this time we thought we would go more of an old school route and rehearse the band. the band would then go out
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that followed. an idea kind of sprung that maybe it d be fun to rerecord a lot of those early songs with one band, instead of the early songs were all split between different producers, different studios, musicians. they all sounded very different, not very cohesive. and the idea was we would select a batch of these songs and rerecord them with one group of people, with us producing all of this. and tell us about the recording experience, because the two of you worked incredibly closely together, didn t you? yeah, it was unlike something i d done up to that point. for the most part during the 90s, most records were done in more of a piecemealway, multitrack, and sometimes the songs wouldn t even be written when an artist would come to the studio. songs would be built up piece by piece, layered, and things like that. which was a very cool process, and the first two records i did with david were very much in that vein.