8/4/2023 0 Comments Poducer linda![]() Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?Ī: Artists - Me'Shell NdegeOcello, followed by pretty much whatever I'm listening to. Cool assortment of outboard gear, so my mixes are fairly hybrid ITB. Sometimes it's obvious where the song wants to go, sometimes not, so I talk with the artist.my favorite question is "when you turned around in your chair and hi-fived your co-writer, what exactly did you say?" I usually get everything I need from that answer.Ī: Pro Tools 12.5.1, maxed out with plugs from UAD, Valhalla, Waves, SoundToys, SoundRadix, all the usual suspects. I guess that's obvious thanks to "Whose Line"Ī: Experience (I've been playing guitar for close to 50 years), a Song Is First mentality, what does the song want, what does it need, what can it hold?Ī: Usually, I get a demo from the artist, I prefer it be very basic, just guitar/vocal or piano/vocal because I really want to hear the song and how they sing it, rather than worry about their guitar playing ability. Gigs are all over the map, jazz, rock, blues, singersongwriter, anything. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?Ī: Production wise it's usually pop/indie. When you get to the one you can't live without, you've just found the heart of the song. Q: Can you share one music production tip?Ī: Back away. Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?Ī: Lalah Hathaway (played with her on sessions, but only as overdubs), Me'Shell, Peter Gabriel, it's a pretty long list. Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?Ī: Guitar player for hire, then just expanded into the rest of it. Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?Ī: My Divided By 13 FTR37, my 335, my Royer, an 1176, and a laptop. Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?Ī: Know well in advance what your budget is, and what you expect to accomplish with that budget. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?Ī: A lot of what you've asked me.but mostly, what they hope for with these songs. ![]() Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do? Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer? Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?Ī: The creativity of it, being lost in the music Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients? Q: What are you working on at the moment? What was your role?Ī: Playing with Art Garfunkel was a real treat. She took a break in a relentlessly crammed schedule to look back at the 15 songs and productions that shaped her career and life.Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. She’s also been curating charity events for Haitian relief and victims of last year’s California wildfires. Perry, 53, is currently wrapping up an album with Natasha Bedingfield. This year, Perry is up for a Grammy in the Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) category for her work on albums by teenaged singer Willa Amai and rocker Dorothy, as well as for the soundtrack to Served Like A Girl, a documentary about female military veterans that includes Perry-helmed songs by Pink, Aguilera and others. Since becoming famous as a member of 4 Non Blondes in the late Eighties, Perry not only survived one-hit-wonder status in the ’90s with “What’s Up” but went on to remake herself as an A-list songwriter and producer, working with a diverse group of acts from Miley Cyrus to Weezer. Pop tunesmith is only one of Perry’s many careers. But maybe that’s why it makes me interesting.” It’s super funny that I got into this whole pop world, because it’s not where I live. “I don’t even know how I got in there, because my true self is dark rock & roll. No one is more surprised than Linda Perry when one of the hit pop songs she’s written, whether it’s Pink’s “Get the Party Started” or Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” roars out of a radio or in a club.
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