If ___ Produced ____
Miss Sarajevo I had a thought experiment once which was, “What if this person produced that person?”. What if Brian Eno produced Metallica, what if Trent Reznor produced a Sting album, and so on. With the passing of David lynch, I've also been thinking about his role in music, and how unique it is. I think Lynch probably would have made an excellent record producer because he looks at things in a different way than most people and he'll see things that other people don't, which I think is important in the production process. If you do everything yourself you're having to play several different roles which is probably not optimal. I think using the film metaphor in terms of making records is that the producer is the “director”and the engineers are the cinematographers and other people that are on the the film crew. If you examine it more closely you'll see a lot of overlaps between music production and film production. Two examples come to mind: the scene in Lost H...
