Coverwall

“The changes in music between the two records are for you to decide. We’re just playing the way we feel and if you want to sit up here all day and play both our records and listen to the changes and say ‘oh yeah, here’s a change, remember when we did that!’ then we sit around and pat ourselves on the back or either kick each other in the ass. That’s what we do. We make records for the public to hear. We cut the record in just 16 days. It was mixed beautifully, but we lost the original mix so we had to re-mix it. Chas and I and the engineer, Eddie Kramer, all of us had to re-mix it the next morning within 11 hours and it’s very hard to do that. We’re going to take more time. We’re in the process of recording now. We’re going to do another ‘period’ album. We’ve got maybe 5 tracks and when we get about 15 or 18, we’ll release it.” … [Read more...] about Jimi Hendrix On Early Influences, ‘Axis’ and More

“Unless a distributor treats a film with utmost contempt, they do at least know how to distribute films. And I can’t really see cassettes radically altering the situation. There will almost certainly have to be standardization and I should imagine the cassette mustn’t cost more than a few dollars — much less than the prices mentioned in the trade press. Something which is liable to have much more of an impact might be color television with the same resolution and sharpness as we now have on film, possibly even three-dimensional holographic presentations distributed via satellites. This fairly simple technological advance would substitute for the vast international organization, part of whose purpose is to deliver prints to the theater and collect them again and also, of course to collect the money from the exhibitors. With the satellite system collection of the money would be as simple as preparing and paying a telephone bill. This type of technology would … [Read more...] about Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Utopia