On 01/26/2013 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > On 01/26/2013 12:34 PM, turquoiseb wrote: >> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" wrote: >>> Wow, I did not know that about them. >> Yup, they were found, and then introduced to each other, >> and then trained carefully, by Albert Grossman. He was, >> possibly not coincidentally, the driving force behind >> the success of Bob Dylan, Ian and Sylvia, Odetta, John >> Lee Hooker in his later recording career, Phil Ochs, >> Gordon Lightfoot, Richie Havens, The Band, the Electric >> Flag, Jesse Winchester, and Janis Joplin. >> >> So again, how much was native talent, and how much of >> it was a teacher noticing some degree of talent, and >> turning it into something marketable? > Actually the "training" or "production" was done by record producers who > actually knew music and many of them classically trained. Some like > Alan Stanton ("The Byrds") and Rick Garrard ("Jefferson Airplane") were > former high school band directors. And then, of course, there was > classically trained George Martin. It not only takes an educated > musical background to make amateurs sound like pros but a lot of > psychology. And some of these musicians had formal training too but > record companies liked to hide that fact back then. Not so these days > as Lady Gaga has a formal music education and it is touted.
BTW, I should mention that the group I played in when I first lived in California in Mill Valley briefly in 1969-70 played all of one gig at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo. Then the band broke up over a spat between the guitar player and bass player. A couple days later I had a call from Albert Grossman's office. He had heard the air check tape of the gig and was interested in signing us. Unfortunately I had to inform them that the band had broke up. A couple years ago the bass player from that band found me on the Internet. He never new that Grossman was interested and was flabbergasted.
