"Rockin' the Joint"

First--congrats to Bailey Stewart! She correctly identified three visible polar bears in my office photos. Please send me your snail mail addy and preferred inscription, and I'll get The Knot right out to you :) There are actually six polar bears in the office, but only three were in the photos. Yes. I know. It's a really cute sickness.

So...I'm perusing last week's Creative Loafing, and there's an article about Aerosmith titled Rockin' the Joint. Since there's been some discussion of 'when do you know when to quit' editing and soforth, this piece of the article (by Kenvin Ransom) hit me where I create.

"'A lot of times, your intentions are to get that lean, gritty sound, and when you listen back to the tapes, it ends up not sounding like that at all,' says Perry. 'There are just so many variables when you go into the studio anymore...these days it's so easy to get a so-called perfect sounding record, so the tendency is to do that because you can. Back in the day, we were always striving to get that one great take. But now it's so easy to do that because you can just keep massaging things, but you can also end up massaging it until it's dead. So the trick is to know when to stop. It's too easy to sterilize the song too much. I mean, there's a lot of young artists today who 'get it', and who've put out some great stuff, and there are others who put out crap--and you know, we've done both.'"