Larry Norman's Remixing Planet CD
The Rands
Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD "Remixing This
Planet"? I personally prefer the original mixes, although some of these
re-mixes are interesting. I wonder whose bright idea this was. Larry's
given us some GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
catagory. Any thoughts?
My best,
Lee
Melody Kewl
Hello Dearies. :)
ra...@advertising.sdi.agate.net (The Rands) writes:
> Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD "Remixing This
> Planet"? I personally prefer the original mixes, although some of these
> re-mixes are interesting.
I like it a whole heap. It is VERY well done, especially for a
project of it's type.
> I wonder whose bright idea this was.
According to the liner notes it was at least somewhat Larry Norman's.
> Larry's given us some GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
> catagory. Any thoughts?
Yeah. You aren't obligated to like it, so don't fret over it, dear. :)
Melody "one of my favs from '96" Kewl
Dave Weeks
The Rands wrote:
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD "Remixing This
> Planet"? I personally prefer the original mixes, although some of these
> given us some GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
> catagory. Any thoughts?
I've only listened to it once, so this is an extremely reactionary
opinion, but I, too, much prefer the original mix of almost every
song. To be honest, there was 1 song I did like quite a bit, but
can't think of which one right now. Most were (at best) ok.
I expected this to be good, but was dissappointed. I expected
dissapointment with the "One Way" tribute CD, and actually really
liked quite a few of the remakes.
Dallas Koehn
The Rands wrote:
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD
> "Remixing This Planet"? I personally prefer the original
> mixes, although some of these re-mixes are interesting.
> I wonder whose bright idea this was. Larry's given us
> some GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in
> that catagory. Any thoughts?
I second the motion, but like a few things about the CD,
which I personally can't stomach:
(1) It made Larry a few bucks at a critical point, as did the
cover song album.
(2) It introduced some very strong material to an entirely
different generation and in a different genre.
(3) It brought up the subject of Larry Norman and his music
yet again. This is _always_ a good thing.
--Dallas Koehn; tul...@ionet.net
*The views expressed above do not reflect those of my employer, my
comrades, my family or friends, my self, my alter egos, or any
rational person on the face of the planet. In fact, I hereby officially
retract them and apologize for even thinking them in the first place.*
walter gorlitz
In article <rand-ya02348000...@news.agate.net>,
ra...@advertising.sdi.agate.net (The Rands) wrote:
>Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD "Remixing This
>Planet"? I personally prefer the original mixes, although some of these
>re-mixes are interesting. I wonder whose bright idea this was. Larry's
>given us some GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
>catagory. Any thoughts?
They're not remixes. They're rerecordings. All of Larry's vocals are brand new.
They're OK, but I still like "Why Should the Devil Have All The Good
Music" done punk.
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Dallas Koehn
walter gorlitz wrote:
>
> In article <rand-ya02348000...@news.agate.net>,
> ra...@advertising.sdi.agate.net (The Rands) wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD
> > "Remixing This Planet"? I personally prefer the original
> > mixes, although some of these re-mixes are interesting.
> > I wonder whose bright idea this was. Larry's given us some
> > GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
> > catagory. Any thoughts?
>
> They're not remixes. They're rerecordings. All of Larry's
> vocals are brand new.
Not that I've ever had cause to doubt Walter's knowledge before,
but could someone else verify or deny this for me? I was sure they
were lifted from the originals...
> They're OK, but I still like "Why Should the Devil Have All
> The Good Music" done punk.
Oh... well, OK, _now_ I have reason to question Walter's _taste_,
but that doesn't mean his _facts_ are necessarily wrong... ;-)
--Dallas Koehn; tul...@ionet.net
"And if you listen, you'll hear a different tune.
But you have to listen closely... and you have to
listen every day." --Larry Norman
Melody Kewl
Hello. :)
Tul...@ionet.net writes:
> walter gorlitz wrote:
> >
> > In article <rand-ya02348000...@news.agate.net>,
> > ra...@advertising.sdi.agate.net (The Rands) wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone have any thoughts on the "new" Larry Norman CD
> > > "Remixing This Planet"? I personally prefer the original
> > > mixes, although some of these re-mixes are interesting.
> > > I wonder whose bright idea this was. Larry's given us some
> > > GREAT music over the years, this, however, isn't in that
> > > catagory. Any thoughts?
> >
> > They're not remixes. They're rerecordings. All of Larry's
> > vocals are brand new.
>
> Not that I've ever had cause to doubt Walter's knowledge before,
> but could someone else verify or deny this for me? I was sure they
> were lifted from the originals...
"We wanted to use as much of the original tracks in the remixes as
as possible although I knew the amount of original tracks used in the
remixing process would differ from song to song, depending on what
direction we decided to take each song. Some of the remixes only use
Larry's original vocal tracks and others use all of the original
instruments with new ones added." - from the liner notes
Melody
walter gorlitz
In article <melody_kewl-ya02318...@news.earthlink.net>,
melod...@earthlink.net (Melody Kewl) wrote:
>"We wanted to use as much of the original tracks in the remixes as
>as possible although I knew the amount of original tracks used in the
>remixing process would differ from song to song, depending on what
>direction we decided to take each song. Some of the remixes only use
>Larry's original vocal tracks and others use all of the original
>instruments with new ones added." - from the liner notes
Deep appoligies. I felt that I memorized all of his vocalizations (on all
of the various recordings he made of them) and there are tons of new
vocalizations and vocal stylings. If you want examples, I'll re-listen to
the disc and let you know which ones I felt this was done on.
I have no reason to doubt the liner notes, but they all _seem_ like new
recordings rather than new instrumentations.
I still like the punk version of "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good
Music" more than most of the stuff on _Remixing This Planet._
Melody Kewl
In article <walter_gorlitz-...@news.mindlink.net>,
walter_...@mindlink.net (walter gorlitz) wrote:
> In article <melody_kewl-ya02318...@news.earthlink.net>,
> melod...@earthlink.net (Melody Kewl) wrote:
>
>
> >"We wanted to use as much of the original tracks in the remixes as
> >as possible although I knew the amount of original tracks used in the
> >remixing process would differ from song to song, depending on what
> >direction we decided to take each song. Some of the remixes only use
> >Larry's original vocal tracks and others use all of the original
> >instruments with new ones added." - from the liner notes
>
> Deep appoligies. I felt that I memorized all of his vocalizations (on all
> of the various recordings he made of them) and there are tons of new
> vocalizations and vocal stylings. If you want examples, I'll re-listen to
> the disc and let you know which ones I felt this was done on.
I dunno. I've never been that keen on Larry Norman. I've liked most
of his stuff that I've heard, but not enough to want to collect it. I
reviewed this disc a few months back and thought it was a really
great treatment of his songs. It didn't seem to try and go too far
in the re-mix process and make them into some sort of impressionist
portrait of the originals. ;)
> I have no reason to doubt the liner notes, but they all _seem_ like new
> recordings rather than new instrumentations.
That, to me, would seem to be a Good Thing. ;) It sounds to me like
a compliment to the producer of the album. :)
Melody
dig...@cyberhighway.net
> > Deep appoligies. I felt that I memorized all of his vocalizations (on all
> > of the various recordings he made of them) and there are tons of new
> > vocalizations and vocal stylings. If you want examples, I'll re-listen to
> > the disc and let you know which ones I felt this was done on.
Scott Blackwell, the producer of Remixing This Planet came up with the
idea and asked Larry for permission to access his original 24 track
masters. Larry agreed, and that was basically the extent to which Larry
was involved. Scott Blackwell flew up, went into a studio, and transferred
a number of Larry's songs to digital multitrack and then flew off again
several hours later. On the original multitracks were various vocal takes
that were never heard on the official album releases, but that were there
nonetheless. Scott may have used some of these takes. I recall hearing an
alternate set of lyrics on one of his remixes. That, coupled with the
ability to digitally alter pitch and time compression values may have led
to the confusion on this matter. So, as far as Larry's participation on
this project goes....it consisted merely of allowing Scott Blackwell to
access the tapes...and buying us all popcorn at the movie theater we went
to while the engineer back at the studio did the transfers.
And just to make this response TOTALLY informative,...the movie we saw
that night was "Happy Gilmore".
Hey, that's all that was showing!
Charles Norman.
Selah.....