Wakeman, Rick - Retro
SKU
25-PRESIDENT38
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's utter pandering to the fans, but Rick is in good shape here and it's all good fun. "The idea for the Retro album came about as the container housing Rick’s equipment was loaded into a truck for his move to England. As more flight cases were opened to check contents, his engineer and co-producer Erik Jordan continually commented: “That’s got to be older than me”! and “When was the last time you plugged that in?” Over a cup of tea Erik said “Let’s make an album using vintage keyboards - no midi, no sequencing...just raw performance on original instruments,proper drum kit, just the works!” It wasn’t easy for many reasons, not the least of which the total unreliability of the equipment. Some instruments had not been switched on for over 30 years. Many of the keyboards had minds of their own, and often or not sounds would change at will or refuse to be duplicated. One piece actually had to be rewritten in order to accommodate the working notes of the particular instrument involved!"