10-07-2024, 07:17 PM
I notice some of his albums from the mid-90s onward really peg out the volume levels, almost like nobody was really that focused on EQ. Which is totally possible given what Susan Rogers said about telling him not to look at the levels while he was playing.
If he did a lot of his later work by himself, it'd make sense that there wasn't much attention to detail in some aspects of the process.
Looking at his album covers...
https://i.imgur.com/bcznzqq.jpeg
From 2009 on, he pretty much stopped using glamor photos of himself for his album covers.
He'd have been 51 in 2009. Maybe he felt like he was getting too old to take that approach anymore.
But that's nonsense, he was a beautiful man til the day he died. His looks never tanked, but maybe he thought they were. Who knows.
You could even look at some of those last album covers and say they were a tad lazy. I don't necessarily think they were, but they definitely looked rather artificial, especially beginning with the "Art Official Age" album in 2014. Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe he was just making a statement.
I feel like he wanted to shift and change directions somehow near the end of his life. Wonder what those album covers would have been like, and what the content of the songs would have been if he'd known he was going to die. Perhaps he did know. Part of me thinks he did.
If he did a lot of his later work by himself, it'd make sense that there wasn't much attention to detail in some aspects of the process.
Looking at his album covers...
https://i.imgur.com/bcznzqq.jpeg
From 2009 on, he pretty much stopped using glamor photos of himself for his album covers.
He'd have been 51 in 2009. Maybe he felt like he was getting too old to take that approach anymore.
But that's nonsense, he was a beautiful man til the day he died. His looks never tanked, but maybe he thought they were. Who knows.
You could even look at some of those last album covers and say they were a tad lazy. I don't necessarily think they were, but they definitely looked rather artificial, especially beginning with the "Art Official Age" album in 2014. Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe he was just making a statement.
I feel like he wanted to shift and change directions somehow near the end of his life. Wonder what those album covers would have been like, and what the content of the songs would have been if he'd known he was going to die. Perhaps he did know. Part of me thinks he did.
