Sans aborder le côté relations, j'ai toujours trouvé que la production de XTC par Todd Rundgren était une fausse (pas si) bonne idée. Avis tout personnel.
Ça pouvait difficilement être du caca à l'arrivée, mais la prise de risque n'était pas négligeable.
In career terms, XTC had been under some pressure to infiltrate the US – to which end their label, Virgin, assembled two lists of potential producers for the forthcoming album. “The only name I recognized was Todd Rundgren,” Partridge remembers, “though I found the second list again recently, and I now know some of them. In fact, one of them wasn’t American : it was Chris Thomas. Wouldn’t that have been interesting? I love his production.”
À en lire l'article de
Udiscovermusic, les quelques désaccords (terme soft) étaient nés des méthodes de travail de Todd. Rien que ce qui concerne les enregistrements "avec" Prairie Prince permet de comprendre, avec un Colin pas content.
We were not used to this way of working, it was very alien to us
Partridge reflects. “But plenty of other artists have had the same battles with him. He just likes to do things his way, and if you don’t surrender totally, it’s going to be a battle. But as an arranger, he’s really excellent. His string and brass arranging for several of the songs was immaculate. Maybe in a perfect world, it should have been Chris Thomas engineering and producing and Todd arranging. But who knew ?”
To compound the problems, the band was hit by a bout of sickness. “Obviously, things were going a bit awry,” Partridge summarizes. “We were not used to this way of working, it was very alien to us, on top of which Colin and I were ill, because we were drinking well water and got some kind of amoeba-type infestation. Dave, who was either having bottled water or boiling all his water to drink in his tea, was completely fine. Colin and I were just sticking our heads under the taps, however, and ended up on antibiotics.
Anecdote pour
Dear God, pourquoi le chant d'enfant.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/ ... interview/
En complément, et en français.
https://www.telerama.fr/musique/skylark ... 908263.php