Take,’ by The Police (which they
recorded with Hugh Padgham.)
There’s the instrumental bridge
where the piano is playing very
sparsely over Stewart Copeland’s kick drum. There Most
would say there should totally
be a solo over top of that, but
instead there is nothing, and
that sort of vamps through the
chord.” The implication of this is
that the song’s subject matter, of
love and obsession, is illustrated
musically by that heartbeat kickdrum. Ornate piano phrasing
would only mute the effect. “The
mark of a producer is knowing when to stop, and knowing
when you’ve ventured into overproduction, as opposed to being just right. One of the properties a good producer must
have is to know when enough’s
enough.”
Not one to be a dictatorial producer, Parsons expects the art-
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