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Date Posted: 06:18:45 01/15/03 Wed
Author: Sherry P
Subject: Kevin Shirley's likes and whatnot

I posted this on another board but, in case you don't see it here it is.
http://www.cavemanproductions.com/lists.htm


Journey - Trail By Fire: Ah, what a voice - what a band! This is a long story, but I had NEVER heard Journey, other than "Wheel In The Sky" before working with them. John Kalodner called me in to his office in L.A. one day and played me "Seperate Ways", and very loud for him too! He asked me what I thought, and I said "lots of reverb!". I had no idea what to say. He said they were having trouble finding a producer - they didn't like Bruce Fairbairn's (then) recent work, Glenn Ballard had been in the running but had bailed to do Aerosmith (which I ended up redoing), Ritchie Zeto, Mike Stone, etc., all failed to excite them - and would I meet the band. So off to San Francisco I went, and I think Steve Perry was attracted by my no-nonsense attitude to them. I couldn't have been star-struck, because I didn't know them at all! Pre-production was great, I made them play the whole album live before we started recording, and by the time we got into the studio Steve and Neal had had enough of the "rehearsing" but the sessions at The Site studio in Marin County were magic. I had been warned that Perry could be difficult to work with, but he is a superstar, and what a set of pipes. I love that man! And all of them, to be honest - Jon Cain I love, and I was the most nervous about producing him, because he'd produced
Jimmy Barnes album I loved! Neal is my brother-man, Ross is a sweetheart, Smitty and the new guys Dean and Augeri are fantastic - but that original band is the deal!! I was nervous to mix the band, and so employed George Massenberg, one of my all-time favorite mixers, but the band preferred my mixes, and in one of the highest compliments paid me ever, Massenberg told me he'd learned more from me than from anyone else! From him, high praise indeed, and one of those moments when you think maybe this job WILL work out!

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