Quiny Jone's engineer on recording Billie Jean

[dahkter]

What up Illfam,
I spend some time over at Craig Anderton's audio engineering forum on Harmony Central.
Bruce Swedien (Quincy Jones main engineer, worked with Ellington/Basie/Michael Jakson/Jennifer Lopez) has been showing up there and posting some real interesting stories about his life's works.

Bruce is a real good guy, real humble considering he's engineered some of the best selling (and sounding) recordings of the 20th century. He's basically trying to pass on the knowledge to the new generation, good stuff.

Anyways, today he was reminiscin about the recording and release of Billie Jean by MJ, fascinating info IMO:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1494818

 

[diskrete]

nice post

 

[Ruimixx]

Damn, this was good. MJ was the king and you can't deny that. (I don't know what the fuck happened to him, but at that time in history, you couldn't touch him.)

 

[djswivel]

his comeback is coming!! He'srecording the new album right now

He's got Rodney Jerkins doing some stuff, and Will.I.Am! Both of them are dope, and mixed with Michaels own production skills, will be crazy. They're calling this Thriller part 2.

Somehow I dont think it will ever match what Thriller was. That album is a cultural phenomenon, but I am eagerly anticipating it!

 

[dahkter]

I thought that "butterflies" song he did four or five years ago was actually pretty decent.
With the right producers, he should be able to do something good again, will be interesting. I think the biggest hurdle is his personality and weirdness. He fucked over a lot of the people who helped him get to the top, not to mention the skin disorder / gloves/ test tube babies / pedophilia / expatriation / etc...

 

[Relic]

Nice

 

[Ruimixx]

I thought that "butterflies" song he did four or five years ago was actually pretty decent.
With the right producers, he should be able to do something good again, will be interesting. I think the biggest hurdle is his personality and weirdness. He fucked over a lot of the people who helped him get to the top, not to mention the skin disorder / gloves/ test tube babies / pedophilia / expatriation / etc...

What the fuck happened to Michael?!?! - Eddie Murphy (he should talk now, lol)