John Mellencamp

[grampa]

I just heard an interview with Mellencamp on NPR about his hew record, "No Better Than This". He's gone retro and simple and it sounds great!

[NeoConMan]

Retro? How far back?

 

Hafta be twenty years for me to be interested.

I have all of his stuff through Human Wheels, when I began to lose interest.

 

Wonder who's playing guitar for him now? Wanchic? Anybody else?

[grampa]

What I heard had a rockabilly feel and the production was very raw and old sounding. He said he wished he could have recorded directly onto a wax disc so that the sound would be very old and primitive sounding.

[recsec]

I heard the same interview, if you go on the NPR.org website music section you can find a video and hear the report plus another cut from the album. I enjoyed the video and the cut provided and I am looking forward to the new album. It was interesting at the end of the interview that he said that the internet is the end of "Rock and Roll".

[Daryl M]

I'm anxious to hear it. I haven't always got into what he was doing, but he was never afraid to dive into uncharted waters.

[Dragoro]

Why is he still making albums? According to him, Rock and Roll is dead.

[grampa]

Why is he still making albums? According to him, Rock and Roll is dead.

 

Because music is not dead.

[RockabillyHell]

It's a good album. One Microphone for the whole band, an old Ampex recorder and one take per song. Just goes to show that a good band doesnt need modern technical wizardry and Pro-tools to make a good record.