keyboard duties.
To illustrate how integral these
players became to the Project
sound, Paton not only played
bass for the recordings but sang
on several tracks, including Vulture Culture’s opening “Let’s
Talk About Me.” Bairnson would
carry over into Parsons’ solo efforts not only as guitarist but as a
songwriter.
Parsons is renowned as a producer, and yet many attribute
his production skills to albums
he wasn’t actually a producer of.
The shortfall of this is two-fold. It
neglects his producer’s contributions to equally famous record
ings like Al Stewart’s “Year of the
Cat” and “Time Passages,” some
of Ambrosia’s biggest hits, and
more. It also gives short shrift to
the important role that the engineer plays.
“The old-fashioned notion of
what a producer was, in terms
of the public perception, was
probably a guy with a big, fat
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