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A C A D I E
The Internet newsletter for Daniel Lanois
Number 129, Sunday 4 October 1998
Today's Topics:
willie on letterman/landmine show in DC
Brian/Brady Blade
Serious Clown
Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 127
Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 127
Oh those flirtatious frenchman
RE: Willie Nelson/Teatro
lanois and MASH?
Lanois & Eno studying to produce U2 again
Willie Nelson's new album
TV
Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 128
Are you interested Musicians???
Still ain't good enough !
Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 128
Excerpt 3 from "Daniel Lanois on Recording"
Video and text transcript for CNN NewsStand feature
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:07:13 -0400
From: "Barbara Burst"
Subject: willie on lettermen/landmine show in DC
noticed some of you asking about whether daniel's playing w/willie on
this tour. i don't know, but he certainly did play with willie on dave
lettermen last week (i think it was thursday). it was kind of weird to
hear willie sing 'the maker' with what was otherwise a very lanois-esque
track. dan was playing guitar just like he did when he solo'd on the
weiland tour.
i just bought tickets to a show in washington dc on october 9th - a
benefit for an organization that is trying to dismantle landmines.
here's the line-up: willie nelson, emmylou harris, steve earle and
lucinda williams. i figure daniel's gotta be playing this show. anyone
know for sure?
barbara
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From: "Claud SansSoucie"
Subject: Brian/Brady Blade
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:19:46 -0400
I am confused. There is a drummer (Brian Blade) who has an album out
produced by Mr.. Lanois. There is a drummer named Brady Blade, who plays
in Emmylou Harris's touring band. Are they related,are the one in the
same? Does anyone know.
Thanks.
ds
Dave and Claudia SanSoucie (and Monk the Dog)
email:
dvsclaud@worldnet.att.net
tele:
(717) 854-7171
Web Page:
http://home.att.net/~dvsclaud
[Editor's Note: Their brothers.]
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:52 -0400
From: TOMMY SAHLIN
Subject: Serious Clown
Hi everybody,
my name is Tommy Sahlin. I'm a Swedish producer & guitarist, who has
recently moved to North Carolina to work as a project manager for Volvo.
2 1/2 years ago in Sweden, I was approached by a remarkable
singer/songwriter named Robert Sohlberg. He runs a boarding house right by
the ocean on a Swedish island where my band had been playing repeatedly.
You'd have to see the place to believe it. The music he writes is in a
tradition every fan of Lanois would appreciate.
He played me several of his songs and they struck a strong nerve in me. So
in January of 1996, I moved parts of my studio into the boarding house and
my band and I started recording with him. Between takes we usually drank
wine, ate, talked, and just spent time together... Typically he showed us
song ideas on an acoustic guitar and I immediately got the arrangements down
with the band as quickly as possible and recorded loads of tracks. Later, I
selected the "workables" and worked with overdubs and sound treatments and
finally mixed the result at Bohus Studios in Sweden. I feel that the band
contribution and production does his music justice. Their is a lot of love
for music and atmosphere going on here. If you like the work of Daniel
Lanois, Peter Gabriel, Neil Young, & Robbie Robertson I'm pretty sure you'd
enjoy this record.
The results still haunt me. The album just grows & grows with the passing of
time... and the fact that the recordings are lying on my bookshelf gathering
dust, unreleased, really disturbs me. I have no idea what to do with this
excellent record. The collective band name is Biggles and the album is named
Serious Clown.
I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions, help, advice etc. I'll
gladly send a cassette copy to anyone who mails a SASE to me. If you like
Lanois you won't regret it. I promise you that this is a remarkable album.
Please write to me at email it.1068tes@memo.volvo.com, or send your SASE to:
Tommy Sahlin
406 Mendenhall Road
Jamestown, NC 27282
Thank you for allowing me to write about this album in this forum. The
record really deserves it...
---- 98-09-15 17:52 ---- Sent to -------------------------------------
-> lanois@sfbayconcerts.com
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From: MAYDELOTT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:19:26 EDT
Subject: Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 127
Andrew, I have the Brian Blade disc and like it quite a bit. It does not,
however, contain the signature Lanois production sound. It is a pretty
straightforward treatment of multi-tempo jazz pieces featuring Brian's
drumming and percussion.
Cheers.
Mike.
RoundSound
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:54:55 -0400
From: Brett Johnson
Subject: Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 127
ACADIE wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:36:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: pez@pop.total.net (Andrew Ajzenkopf)
> Subject: Brian Blade
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> Hello everyone. I was just wondering of anyone has heard ( well, I
> guess many people have heard it) the Brian Blade albem produced by you know
> who? I'm curious to hear opinions about it. I guess this may have been
> discussed ad nauseum before, but since I missed it.. can anyone offer any
> info about this album? How Lanois-esque is it? Any response would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.
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> Andrew
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The Brain Blade Fellowship has a "Blue Note Jazz" sound. Clean, but not
lite. High standard of musicianship playing mainstream or traditional
ensemble jazz.
DL plays on two tracks, I believe. He jams in conjunction with the
others (at times in almost a Pat Matheny or urban cocktail guitar
style).
The rest of the album is straight jazz, drums and horns and a wonderful
spatial sound. There are certainly echos and washes not found in some
jazz but there's no deliberate thumb print by DL. From the sleeve
photos, he seemed to be positioned as a member of the band. His
Production is not a radical departure from the Blue Note Sound, but it's
very good. I don't know Lanois' history with Jazz but it's good to
experiment with a different music genre.
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From: Birdeeleg@aol.com
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:28:14 EDT
Subject: Oh those flirtatious frenchmen
Hello:
I've been amused by the stories of Daniel Lanois' tall girl/short girl
fixations at the shows. I thought it was only me that he loved, I feel so
used and cheap now (!). I've had the experience of accidently meeting him the
same way. I was volunteering as an usher afew years back for an Emmylou
Harris concert at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine. Before the show they
were playing the Neville Bros. Yellow Moon (at the time I had no idea how that
connected to Emmylou) and I was doing alittle dance - which I'm inclined to
do. This guy suddenly appeared infront of me, which stopped me mid hip swing,
and announced that he was Daniel. I was alittle startled and confused trying
to figure out who he was and were I might have met him!! I actually had
Yellow Moon on cassette, but never had the proper magnifying equipment to read
the credits. Anyway, he talked to me for a long time or maybe he mostly
listened while I told my stories. I did give him plenty of chances to escape,
because I'm cool like that, but he seemed to be happy standing and a staring.
Boy - can he STARE, I was getting concerned about the possibility of holes.
He was kind of a cross between Pepe La Pew and Dracula (Dracula with THE
BEAUTY OF WINONA Ryder in it). I will have to say he was very down to earth
and soft spoken (chicks love that), a very likeable person by first impression
anyway. His mom must be proud. I remember liking the show alot, especially
Daryl Johnson - great voice.
I've since aquainted myself with Daniels music - found I actually had alot of
stuff he produced anyway. The experience taught me to read the liner notes!
I like alot of his own stuff, It will be interesting to hear the new CD,
maybe there will be a song about tall girls on it!! With all due respect to
Bob, Emmy and Willie, he seems to be playing it safe working with sure bets,
tried and true artist. It would be cool to see him work with some band he
discovered in the subway or something.
As far as the Nevilles - they are hosting a masquerade ball Oct. 31 at the
State Theatre - my joy - I've got my tickets and I'm polishing up the tail
feathers!
Bye Bye
Birdeeleg@aol.com
P.S. I am six feet tall and Daniel wasn't
THE END
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From: Mitch Keen
Subject: RE: Willie Nelson/Teatro
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:56:25 +0100
Hi,
Just a quick word to say I how much I love the new Willie Nelson CD. As
others have mentioned on this list... WN has not been always to my taste
in the past- but I really love the new 'slant' on this recording- I can
really hear the acoustics/atmosphere of that old cinema- wonderful...
One thing - has anyone listened very carefully to WN version of 'The
Maker'- correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds to me as though some of
the original guitar/percussion & keyboard tracks from DL's 'Acadie'
version of 'The Maker' were used in this latest version...?
Pardon me if I've missed the news/discussion- is there any sign of a new
solo Daniel Lanois
release in the near future?
Cheers...
Mitch
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From: "Peter&Nancy Walker"
Subject: lanois and MASH?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:44:09 PDT
I have heard that daniel lanois is working with a new band from la
called MASH. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything more about
this?
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:37:58 -0500
From: "Jesus C. Garza Mtz."
Subject: Lanois & Eno studying to produce U2 again
Hi everyone; I just read this on a U2 news bulletin I get:
>From Rolling Stone:
Even Better Than The Real Thing
In the name of another record.
Figure it'll take at least six months for U2 to count the fifty-million
simoleons the group raked when it signed a record deal calling
for the release of three "best of" albums. By then, U2 should be
ready to get back into the business of making music -- and more
money. When that happens, U2 will likely look to the producer
tandem that brought the Irish quartet many of its greatest hits during
the Eighties and early Nineties. Though nothing's written in stone,
last Saturday in Dublin the band took a preliminary meeting with Brian
Eno and Daniel Lanois, the two architects behind 1991's Achtung
Baby, 1988's The Joshua Tree and 1984's The Unforgettable Fire,
three of the band's biggest commercial successes. The pair also
teamed up for U2's experimental Zooropa (1993) and Eno last
worked on the equally-enigmatic Passengers:Original Soundtracks
1 (1995), which featured the producer and all members of U2. Last
year's commercial disappointment Pop was produced by Flood.
According to a source close to Lanois, the producers and U2 will
meet again some time next month to discuss possible recording
locations and recording times for the project. Right now Lanois is on
vacation and Eno is busy producing James' forthcoming album,
which should be completed by the end of November. A source
close to Eno says production on a new U2 album won't begin until
at least March.
"We imagine they'll work on it through next year," says the source
close to Eno, who added it could take them through the summer to
complete the album.
BLAIR R. FISCHER
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:24:21 -0700
From: Eleven Shadows
Subject: Willie Nelson's new album
I don't remember hearing a lot of descriptions/discussion about Willie
Nelson's new DL-produced album. Opinions? Rolling Stone magazine didn't
seem to think too much of it, but I'm wondering what DL fans think of it.
Ken/Eleven Shadows
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From: "Andy Harbut"
Subject: TV
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:09:37 -0500
Man, that cnn thing was great. Very nice to see mr lanois get his due
share. And then when he and billy bob came on, I thought id gone to media
heaven. My two favorites, right there togeather. That was just too much.
Did anybody else notice how cool those guys are?
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:47:43 +0100 (BST)
From: D Buddie
Subject: Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 128
I see Daniel Lanois is being featured on the CNN station tonight 'The man
Behind the Music' at 5pm UK time on satellite.
Drew Buddie
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Drew Buddie IT Co-ordinator & WebMaster,
Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth, Herts. England.
db@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk
http://www.royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:43:46 +0200
From: A van Zimmeren
Subject: Are you interested Musicians??
Hello everyone,
I just discovered this newsletter but I've been a fan of Daniel since
his first solo album ACADIE.
The thing that always interests me is the way he plays guitar and
afcourse his omnichord. I was able to figure out what chords he plays in
The maker, under a stormy sky, jolie Louise, sleeping in the devil's bed
, the unbreakable chain and Rocky world.
In an interview with daniel in an American guitar magazine I read that
he juses the tuning, FADFAD (or something like that, It's been a while
you know!) and with that I figured out still water , st Anne's gold and
the messenger and a song I once saw him play in the tribute concert for
Nelson Mandela. Daniel named the song after him.
Is there anyone who knows more about his guitar playing or can somenone
give me an adress for some transcriptions of his songs?
Further I'm always interested to meet people ( are there any woman?) who
like Daniel and I don't know if it's possible but I would like to mail
Daniel personally.
Till next Time
Alexander
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:07:45 -0400
From: Éric Mc Comber
Subject: Still ain't good enough !
>At the Grammy Awards, the
>winner for this year's album of the
>year was Bob Dylan for "Time Out
>of Mind." Dylan then credited
>producer Daniel Lanois for the
>success of the album.
Nominations for the ADISQ (Québec's Grammys) came out last week. Still no
luck for our friend Daniel. I think he's got to work a little bit harder
before he can be considered for a Felix (the trophy's name). As a producer,
he has to try to work with some important artists from the world scene. The
Bob Dylans, the U2s and the Peter Gabriels just don't cut it to impress th
judges.
I believe -in the very unlikely case DL gives a puff of comet gas about the
whole mess- that if he is ever to stand a chance alongside such brilliant
producing hotshots as the ones who operate up here, he will have to start
working with the likes of well established local megastars Mario Pelchat,
Ginette Reno or Stef Carse.
Never quit Daniel, someday you will be good enough for l'ADISQ.
(at least a nomination)
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Éric Mc Comber, Graphiste
Machina Sapiens,
3535 Chemin de la Queen-Marie, bur. 420
Montréal, Québec, H3V.1H8
Tél: (514) 733.3959, fax: (514) 733.2774
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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From: Ranchbs@aol.com
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:34:08 EDT
Subject: Re: ACADIE Digest, Number 128
I saw the CNN/TIME piece on Daniel last night and Emmylou Harris' comment on
Daniel being hooked in to "The Amp Of God" just struck a chord with me as
being so true. I'm not much into spirituality/religion, but it brought back
memories of my father's favorite scripture about "Make a joyous noise unto the
lord". ( he was an orginist/choir director) Music is about the only thing that
can incite that kind of feeling in me, and Daniel's does so more than anyone
elses, except for maybe Jerry Garcia's solo work. Tim Banks
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:59:35 -0500
From: Jim Javenkoski
Subject: Excerpt 3 from "Daniel Lanois on Recording"
Greetings,
Here is the third of a series of excerpts from the article
entitled, "Daniel Lanois On Recording" that was published
in the August 1997 (Volume XIX) issue of Canadian Musician:
http://www.canadianmusician.com/
Author: Nick Krewen
"There's a lot of processing equipment that I've used to
make things more interesting. Sometimes, I'll do it while
recording, sometimes I'll do it after the fact. Rhythm
boxes, beat machines and samplers are more interesting
when they're amplified. You put a sample through an
18" speaker, and it's going to pack a certain punch it
won't have if you just record it straight into the
console. I'd like to promote re-amplification.
"I also have this mixing idea that I'm starting to
experiment with that I'm very excited about. Traditionally,
the way mixing is done is that you take your tracks, and
you put 'em back through the console, and you re-brand
them. But what that doesn't give you is depth of field.
No amount of EQ of even a reverb, creates the same
depth of field you get when you mic a bunch of musicians
in a room and everybody's standing at a different distance
from the microphone. My latest thought is that you take
your 24 tracks, or whatever you've got, and you put each
track into a speaker. So you take your bass and you pipe
it through an 18" speaker, take your hi-hat and you
pipe it through a small Bose speaker and on and on,
and you adjust your speakers in such a way that you
create a sonic environment that you re-mic with your
stereo microphone. And you get all your depth of field --
exactly what you're hearing -- at that moment, which what
you will essentially get on your tape."
Jim Javenkoski
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:44:17 -0500
From: Jim Javenkoski
Subject: Video and text transcript for CNN NewsStand feature
Hello,
For those of you who missed the first broadcast of CNN NewsStand
on Sunday, 20 September (and were dismayed to find that Larry
King Live pre-empted the scheduled Monday night replay of
NewsStand) here is how you can obtain the video and text
transcript.
To order the video, call 800.CNN.NEWS between 10 A.M. and 4:00 P.M.
EDT daily and follow the voice prompts to select programs from
NewsStand. The price for videotape copies is $29.95 plus $5.00
shipping, with a delivery time of 3-6 weeks. Faster shipping at
proportionally higher fees is available.
To capture the text transcript of the Lanois feature, simply
point your browser at:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/9809/20/impc.00.html
and then use your browser's Find... function on this phrase:
And now, for something completely different: music
to locate the beginning of the transcript. Enjoy!
Jim Javenkoski
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