“I say I was Henry Kissinger,” he joked.
GRAMMY-winning Producer Steve Lillywhite at the GRAMMY SoundTables: Behind The Glass With Steve Lillywhite at Shure, Inc on May 15, 2014 in Niles, Illinois. English record producer Steve Lillywhite has worked with a number of famous and respected performers over the years, including Talking Heads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, U2, Peter Gabriel, the Dave Mathews Band, and many, many more.
But there’s one quite famous group who he worked with that he recently said wasn’t a great experience.Lillywhite talked about his time producing the Rolling Stones 1986 album “Dirty Work,” which he described as “hell.” The reason? It was during a time when guitarist Keith Richards and singer Mick Jagger weren’t getting along.Lillywhite said on the show,“It was hell,” he added, referencing the late secretary of state under President Nixon. “I would have one come up to me go ‘blah blah blah blah,’” he said. “And I would go and say to the other one. And he would go, ‘You tell him, blah blah blah blah.’One good thing that came out of the experience, Lillywhite said, was that he learned the value of having visitors in the studio. “I learned this from the Rolling Stones,” he said. “never stop people coming into the studio. Always have an open door policy.” “When people come in and they listen to something, I sort of hear it through their ears. So there might be something that I’m, subconsciously, I’m thinking it’s not quite right, but it hasn’t come to the conscience yet,” he continued. “Whereas when someone’s in there listening and I’m playing them a rough mix I go, got it. Now I know what we have to change.” Chris Mautner is the Trending News and Life and Culture editor for PennLive, where he works with a small team of reporters on aggregating state and national news and producing stories covering the local...
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