Take Some Time Out: Reading between the lines, there’s another lesson to be taken away from Sound Man, and that’s to occasionally stop and smell the roses. However, Charlie summed it up perfectly when asked in a recent interview his experience of being in the band for fifty years. They were to drag me with them on the crest of a wave through an extraordinary period of change, not only in the music they were writing and performing but in the structure of the industry itself. I'd interviewed his son, Ethan Johns, in 2005; Glyn and I began talking about him, as Ethan had just been by the day before.

How do things look to you these days, with the music industry and recording — especially our end of it?Johns recounts that his first session as chief engineer was for a recording by Joe Brown, which was produced by Tony Hatch. You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Let It Be,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Take It Easy,” “Lay Down Sally,” “Who Are You? During this time, Johns was playing in the Presidents, [24] who, according to Johns, began to put the phrase "Featuring Decca Recording Star Glyn Johns" on their posters. Amongst various tasks during recording sessions, the chief engineer operates equipment in the control room that requires complicated settings, such as the recording console, outboard equipment/signal processing.

Glyn went back to England very excited and told Keith Richards and George Harrison and they were all for it. No surprise here, but the NAMM Show is moving to an all online experience this year due to COVID-19. Johns continued to work with the Who throughout the 1970s as an engineer on parts of Quadrophenia in 1973.Perhaps it was because I had shown an interest in it at school, although my only memory of singing in the choir at my primary school was, when I was five, being pulled out of line and slapped on the calf by an extremely rotund Miss Butterworth for talking when I should have been listening.