03-26-2009, 12:41 PM
That's exactly what I thought this morning; that they sound like showtunes.
Agree 100%. This is and always has been a LIVE BAND. That's what they are known for being even by people around the world who don't really know their music. Any producer in their right mind would see that clearly the objective should be to capture the live sound, the live power.
I just don't get why Bob Rock doesn't clue in. Every album he does for every band just gets more and more produced each time. It's like listening to music that was created in a sterile laboratory.
What worse, I just can't understand why the bands keep coming to him. Sure he broke Metallica's biggest record, but that wasn't overpolished, it was completely raw, and who are we kidding? Metallica was going to be massive no matter what. OLP, TTH, etc, etc... He just doesn't break it big for them. They were fine the way they were, leave them be please.
Agree 100%. This is and always has been a LIVE BAND. That's what they are known for being even by people around the world who don't really know their music. Any producer in their right mind would see that clearly the objective should be to capture the live sound, the live power.
I just don't get why Bob Rock doesn't clue in. Every album he does for every band just gets more and more produced each time. It's like listening to music that was created in a sterile laboratory.
What worse, I just can't understand why the bands keep coming to him. Sure he broke Metallica's biggest record, but that wasn't overpolished, it was completely raw, and who are we kidding? Metallica was going to be massive no matter what. OLP, TTH, etc, etc... He just doesn't break it big for them. They were fine the way they were, leave them be please.