gogo Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I was late getting to this, but it's a pretty interesting (and lengthy) article on how Columbia hired Rick Rubin, hoping that he'll somehow save the record business. September 2, 2007 The Music Man By LYNN HIRSCHBERG Rick Rubin is listening. A song by a new band called the Gossip is playing, and he is concentrating. He appears to be in a trance. His eyes are tightly closed and he is swaying back and forth to the beat, trying at once to hear what is right and wrong about the music. Rubin, who resembles a medium-size bear with a long, gray beard, is curled into the corner of a tufted velvet couch in the library of a house he owns but where he no longer lives. This three-story 1923 Spanish villa steeped in music history Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 raucous woman named Beth Ditto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 ooh, thanks for posting...I saw this and didn't get a line on the full article. the cover photo of him is great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 large, raucous woman named Beth Ditto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I fouled it - sorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Duck-Billed Catechist Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 That article might bug me a little bit. I'm not sure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 George Drakoulis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 George DrakoulisI bought a hot dog from him, once (around the time of the first Black Crowes album). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I bought a hot dog from him, once (around the time of the first Black Crowes album). @ Orange Julius? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 @ Orange Julius?That's right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 He has worked on several Tom Petty albums, as well as with The Jayhawks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pnêyu Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 We were talking about how there seems to be a law that requires a big Rick Rubin story to be written every couple of years or so, when the record industry is going through some other cataclysmic shift from which it will never recover. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Azzurri Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Paul Potts: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 These were some of the parts that interested/amused/disturbed me: This is the fourth male singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar that Rubin has heard today. The music is heartfelt, spare, poetic. "There were a lot of girls in the audience," Kusatsu says as the track begins.At the end of their paid internships, the students took part in focus groups that were closely observed by Steve Barnett, Rubin's co-head at the label, and Mark DiDia, whom Rubin brought in as head of operations, as well as by other Columbia executives. The focus groups may have been the real point of Big Red Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I hear Rick's producing the new Wilco album, called "Troubles in the Backpan Alley" and the Tweedy solo effort called "Sewn Vanilla" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 for the respect he seems to command, he sure has some pretty shit ideas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I reckon if given a chance, Jay Bennett would save the music business...... -Robert. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Is Rick Rubin working with Bob Dylan on a new album in January 2008? This article seems to suggest so - here I'm guessing they've got their facts wrong, but you never know?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 rick rubin made reign in blood. he'll be forever relevant for that alone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
howfast Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 any updates on cash american VI? keeping waiting on an updates since last summer when Rubin said there would be one more release.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 He deserves a Nobel Prize for his production on Jay-Z's "99 Problems." I MIGHT pay $6.95 a month to listen to any music at any time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mjpuczko Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 dylan working with rubin? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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