Richie’s Reprisal: Thoughts from the Pallid Pilgrim OUT-SPECTORING SPECTOR by Rich Horton In the days before multi-tracking, producers of rock-influenced pop records were stuck with the thorny problem of how to translate rock’s bombast over the tinny car radio speakers by which most American teenagers heard the music. Phil Spector’s solution to the problem was …
This from Tim Cook via Facebook: “RE: the fifth Ramones record, and first bad one, End of the Century. These guys must not have noticed Spector ruined L. Cohen’s “Death of a Ladies’ Man” the year before. It would have been all worth it if only Spector could have put Marky Ramone down in 1980. …