Cool "Mojo" Tracking Session Film....

[tactics]

Way too many guys rocking their sunglasses indoors throughout this.

[casey campbell]

i dunno. i think if i just heard the music alone, i'd say it was pretty decent. but it just seems to be kind of goofy with these 60+ year old guys acting "cool." i think this is one instance where video kind of ruins it. it's also hard to imagine tom petty doing this type of music... these guys are acoustic rockers, not bluesmen.

you know, i always heard that if you can't say nothin' nice, don't say nothing at all...but i just couldn't resist.

[tonewoods]

....but it just seems to be kind of goofy with these 60+ year old guys acting "cool."

That room, those instruments, those amps, the way they are choosing to work, is just "cool"--period...

I don't care if you're 16 or 90...

And it's inspirational...
At least to me, and not just because I happen to be the same age...

Fuck piecing songs together track by track, isolating all the amps and trying to get a good mix on everybody's headphones, overdubbing and comping the vocals till it's "just right", etc. etc. like all the crap out there....
Just go out and play it till it's good...

Yeah, the songs are "just OK" to these ears....
But the way those guys are working--and the sounds they are getting to tape--make that video one of the most inspirational pieces of tape I've seen in a long long time...

I've watched the thing 15 times or so, and I'll probably send it to everyone who I will be working with in the future with a note: "Watch this!"

[roscoenyc]

it's inspirational...

+1

[joninc]

Way too many guys rocking their sunglasses indoors throughout this.

+10000

[MidiMonk]

My next project is going to be this way, thanks for the inspiring post.I truly enjoy the synergy of a real band feeding off another rather than an intern beat detecting the soul down the drain.As always the songs define the methodology and the rules broken whenever possible.

[bnkepner]

Pretty cool music but Petty doesnt have the voice for this style at all

[casey campbell]

....but it just seems to be kind of goofy with these 60+ year old guys acting "cool."

That room, those instruments, those amps, the way they are choosing to work, is just "cool"--period...

I don't care if you're 16 or 90...

And it's inspirational...
At least to me, and not just because I happen to be the same age...

Fuck piecing songs together track by track, isolating all the amps and trying to get a good mix on everybody's headphones, overdubbing and comping the vocals till it's "just right", etc. etc. like all the crap out there....
Just go out and play it till it's good...

Yeah, the songs are "just OK" to these ears....
But the way those guys are working--and the sounds they are getting to tape--make that video one of the most inspirational pieces of tape I've seen in a long long time...

I've watched the thing 15 times or so, and I'll probably send it to everyone who I will be working with in the future with a note: "Watch this!"

i guess i missed your original point. i think that it's great if it inspires you to reach further in your craft...that alone is worth it all.

it reminds me of an article i read about bernie kirsch. about being an engineer is about people more than technique. it was really an inspiring article to me, but no one else really understood it. i have always told others to get around stuff that lights a fire within you. sorry i missed what you said originally. even if they are acting a little old school rock star, if it inspires, it's valuable.

God bless....

[Nick Sevilla]

Way too many guys rocking their sunglasses indoors throughout this.

That's because it was a filmed event, where there were way more lights in the room than normal.

And it sounds / looks too clean, so I do not think it is a rehearsal at all.

Cheers