Trevor Horn Producer Interview at SARM Studios - Part One

[@stuartcarswell2815]

Trevor is a great man...his book is a real joy

[@michaelrock5615]

I love the credit shown to Steve Lipson from Trevor. Fascinating interview.

[@woodshed_moments]

This was the golden age of recording, I at the time was a programmer Fairlight and Synclavier samples and you would be amazed who you came across if you were doing that work at the time… it never cease to amaze me who put the fair light to work, the SynClavier came later, and it was way more expensive - but these things were state of the art at the time, then emu came up with their samplers, it was the heady days of digital audio music production, they are missed… when Trevor Horn got a hold of Yes, that’s when he got my attention, also like the fact that Kate Bush got a hold of the fairlight too

[@AlobarMusic]

Trevor Horn is one of the most important (and for sure greatest) producer.

[@stevefields187]

not realy , he's the guy sucking the dick of the best of the bands, acting like he made them good.

[@brianclark6542]

I couldn't have stated it better myself!

[@skierpage]

He's up there, but Arif Mardin (RIP) and Nile Rodgers are very special too. Arif Mardin's production on Aretha Franklin's 1970s pop records is 😘 and so many other great records but then to produce Chaka Khan and Scritti Politti with as much studio invention as Trevor Horn when he was 17 years older is impressive.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

He's a genius and his productions sound great. He's produced some of my favourite albums. Great guy and shaped pop in the last 40 years.

[@gilliebrand]

He has produced the soundtrack to my formative years, the guy is a genius.

[@RoyChartier]

Love that he as that Lexicon PCM-42 and the Roland JX-8P...keeping that 80's touch in his studio.

[@yrmthr]

What a brilliant man. So much here to learn and absorb. A true legend.

[@stevefields187]

not realy, he's the guy sucking the best of the era, pretending he made them great.

[@Valelacerte]

A great musician, writer and producer. I hope that Trevor Horn records his wealth of knowledge and experience before he leaves us. I recently read that his son, Aaron, accidentally shot Trevor Horn's wife, Jill, in the neck with an air rifle, causing brain damage and ultimately her death in 2014 after a coma and then a severely disabled life. What a horrendous tragedy to deal with. Imagine how difficult it must have been to deal with one person you love accidentally killing another person you love

[@updown5238]

Fantastic, thanks to you both.

Thanks for the great interview!

[@ajs41]

Love the fact he used the cowbell function to trigger the sequencer. The cowbell is one of my favourite 80s sounds.

[@tednorton5150]

For the record, the Canadian Disco band Lime (husband and wife team of Denis and Denise Lepage) had the ENTIRE Roland line installed in their living room courtesy of the company. This was done in 83 or 84 so that the band could raise their newborn daughter while recording their very lucrative music on a heavy release schedule.

[@madmuso5]

This interview gives me the horn.

[@8dioproductions]

Major (positive) influence ... on the world at whole

[@80srenaissance67]

Seems a good bloke. Talent

[@brianwilson49]

The production of ABC’s ‘lexicon of love’ alone would have put Horn in the pantheon of greatest producers of all time.

[@rembeadgc]

Cool to hear Trev shine some light on "Go-go" bands and their music. "Go-go" is a distinctly percussion and drums heavy style usually with a swing feel that "originated" in Washington, DC. The drummer Juju is probably the most famous drummer of the style. The style reached it's apex of notoriety with the band EU (Experience Unlimited)in the movie School Daze by Spike Lee, with the song "Da Butt". However the style was probably most fully nurtured though the showmanship of Guitarist/singer/bandleader Chuck Brown, who frequently displayed the style's jazz roots and shared it by touring internationally. Go-go is a grass roots music and is still popular in the DC area to this day. For many musicians in the area, playing Go-go is a rite of passage. In other words you ain't a real DC bred musician if you ain't never played Go-go.

[@tednorton5150]

Peter Gabriel , Kate Bush, Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson, Sly and Robbie, and Boris Blank were some of the acts that grabbed onto the Fairlight early and helped establish its place for other artists. Also, Bobby Orlando in the States was an early example of a more "street" producer who immediately saw the potential of this technology.

[@djdoolittle1315]

Brilliant, thanks 💚🎵

[@retromograph3893]

I've bought one of Trev's EMT 140 plate reverbs, it was sampled in Altiverb, why did you sell it bruv?

[@albertomendoza8113]

...the Trevor Horn music is a travel, go for your brain, across the heart, and arrives in you re soul...

[@christophermatthias3327]

The man himself Trevor Horn Simple minds The Street Fighting Years is a masterpiece not to mention Seal Tina Turner Art Of Noise and the rest

[@skierpage]

Those are good tracks, but Trevor Horn's top five productions that blew everyone's minds are: "Poison Arrow" by ABC (1982), "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren (1983), "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes (1983), "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood" (1984), and "Slave to the Rhythm" by Grace Jones (1985). They talk about these in the interview, pure gold.

[@Underhills]

I remember listening to a Propaganda record whilst reading frequency numbers on the record sleeve. The sound was fantastic.

[@Underhills]

@HighHopesBass I've read some 80's articles about Lipson. Impressive career. The bassline on FGTH's Rage Hard is epic. Shook me to the core.

[@renderizer01]

This was uploaded in October 2015 but by the time they recorded this Chris Squire, who died in June 2015, was obviously still alive, according to what Trevor Horn said here. Little did he know... :(

[@aybee63]

The Horn produced some absolute classics! He had a very particular production technique...I studied it like crazy! Looks like JBL's in the background???

[@yrmthr]

The small monitors are definitely Yamaha NS-10s flipped on their sides. The bigger ones in the back might be Dynaudios.

[@nebstaism]

I own an original 808 and I love it 😍

[@ajs41]

Love the cowbell sound. In fact I've created a playlist on my channel with songs featuring the electronic cowbell sound.

[@tedkay_music]

great

[@solomonnorthup2168]

Jesus whatta great interview. Trev is super cool. only wish him Anne Dudley & the WORLD FAMOUS woulda made a complete album together without mclaren

[@skierpage]

Yes, it seems like he did the incredible "Buffalo Gals" and then moved on. Trevor Horn says he enjoys working with musicians better than himself, and I'm not sure Malcolm McLaren and scratching teams qualify.

[@aimeemacdn]

You talked about meeting Ian Shane on the record. In the Fish and Chip shop. Was that bollocks too?

[@WhisperingJohn]

He's looking good

[@STEVEFINNERTY]

what in the panning incident ?, OOALHeart is an amazing sounding track,

[@adriatic123]

Trevor is The Producer, along with Quincy Jones best producer ever.

[@cameron_fairchild]

maybe, the vision George Clinton had for p-funk and all those records from rock-funk to disco-funk is remarkable. all are 'dreamed to perfection' and with innovative mixes and tons of soulful and skilled, immensely talented sidemen, highly eccentric advanced vocal arrangements and sophisticated horn arrangements played by the best horn players ever in the U.S. maceo parker, fred wesley, and the brecker brothers. Manfred Eicher at ECM has done immaculate work for decades on exquisite, esoteric jazz records with the best engineer and at the finest studios in the world: Jan-Erik Kongshaug was behind the boards on 700 sterling breathtaking cohesive conceptual albums featuring musicians far more talented than Trevor Horn has ever worked with in his entire life. and Trevor has worked with the best, but not as talented as Manfred has with those sensitive virtuosos at ecm records; Metheny, deJohnette, Vitous, Rypdal and on and on. Brian Eno has done timeless records in pop new wave, talking heads, ambient Apollo, Textures, etc., and sold out worldwide tours and stadium arenas with his rock production of U2's most acclaimed album The Joshua Tree. we'll leave out his time producing David Bowie THAT important Bowie/Eno trilogy WAS JUST THEM TWO PLAYING AROUND. But what do I know, my favorite producer of all time is Gary Katz, why? because no Steely Dan record was any good for me after his name stopped appearing on them, and he supposedly did nothing. Maybe Mutt Lange is the best of all then and i'll end it there. 25 million sold with Shania, 25 million sold with ac/dc, and 25 million sold in pop rock with billy ocean, heart, huey lewis, and bryan adams, let's not include the 35 million Mutt sold with def leppard since you may be right...uncle Trev and Q are the greatest, beats me, who really knows. does anybody really know what time it is? there you go; caribou's jim guerico, or maurice white, that's rhythm, percussion, funk, disco, ballads, RnB, with string arranging, seminal ground-breaking, peerless horn arranging, soul singing with harmony vocals and masterful engineering equal to anything Trevor ever did with George Massenburg by his side, or....or....or....LOL.

[@frantic3706]

but Quincy Jones is most an arrangeur than a producer...Bruce Sweden is a producer in this case

[@skierpage]

​@@cameron_fairchild I'd add Arif Mardin. To go from producing Aretha Franklin's 1970s pop perfection to Chaka Khan and Scritti Politti, as adventurous sonically as Trevor Horn even though he was 17 years older is impressive. Nile Rodgers isn't as more-More-MORE, but he's another great producer. His closest production to Trevor Horn's bombastic excess is his remix of "The Reflex" by Duran Duran. It's great to follow producers from band to band across recordings to hear their contribution.

[@cameron_fairchild]

@@skierpage It's great to follow producers from band to band across recordings to hear their contribution. THAT PART.

[@skierpage]

@@frantic3706 no, Bruce Swedien is the recording engineer and Quincy Jones has been more a producer than arranger for decades. Read their Wikipedia articles. "Swedien won 5 Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album for his work with Jackson and Jones." Quincy Jones was credited for rhythm and vocal arrangements on a few songs on Off the Wall and Thriller, while others like Jerry Hey did what's typically considered "arrangements": writing out multiple horn and string parts for session musicians to play; the great songwriter Rod Temperton came up with the arrangements of all the parts of his songs.

[@stevefields187]

great to take advantage of the real talent, wow wee your the producer.

[@vbassone]

JUJU HOUSE on drums!!!! DC cats

[@SwappingIsSaving]

Durham's finest.

[@lifeindigital1730]

We love Trevor Horn. Hey, cheap plug, but we gotta try....I was almost signed to ZTT in 1993, but ALL SAINTS beat my then band to it at the last hurdle. Trevor really liked the music I was doing back then, but Jill Sinclair said the girls were more marketable. She was probably right there! Hope some of you might like this though...would really appreciate your feedback! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqvPi2Ondtaap6s

[@GOGOTIX]

Re: Slave to the Rhythm. Juju is the drummer for EU.

[@tednorton5150]

Trevor I WISH you had produced "Ghost Town " for Madonna.

[@gary24fan]

Ummmmm.... It's on KZbin :D

[@ernestbuckley8671]

The very last sentence is where its at… get the best musicians and let them play…

[@mikeraz594]

How can someone think Owner of lonely heart solo was a fairlight?

[@NeilVanceNeilVance]

AD & SL = SUCSESS

[@absolving]

4:01 LOL

[@ajs41]

Sampling was only fun and interesting from about 1981 to 1986. After that it was just normal, as Trevor says.

[@skierpage]

There's sampling to create new instruments and sounds, and then there's sampling to collage an existing recording into your track. The latter peaked in 1989 with 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul and Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys.

[@graziellabarile8425]

He's still a very beautiful and sexy man. ❤❤💕💞💗

[@apollozero]

Everything is a sample these days.

[@Reprodestruxion]

The anti Brian Eno or the anti Mark Hollis

[@TheStudioDrummer]

One word; Seal.

[@best_life_lists]

what's your point?

[@morkygorky]

Seal is probably one of the few artists who have continuously worked with Trevor Horn.... and the albums sadly became increasingly boring!!

[@isenbergj]

And what about Allen Parsons ???

[@RecordProduction]

We have an interview with Alan Parsons..

[@johnsayer116]

Its so annoying the guy interviewing fiddling with things, staring at his notes, playing with the desk..all whilst Trevor explains fantastic little details. Trevor too was put off by all the faffing around. Why do we need to see this interviewer in the frame? And stop bloody fiddling..

[@conbriosynthesizers3428]

He was cool until he said he didn't listen to Black Sabbath!

[@best_life_lists]

vocal sound is abysmal..! U67 too by the looks of things...

[@blakeyonthebuses]

Produce your own shit. It can't be any worse.

[@hypercomms2001]

More Cow bell! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJjRZJWrgsx_n80

[@ernestbuckley8671]

The very last sentence is where its at… get the best musicians and let them play…