Tom Dowd

Um, he recognized that they didn't always agree with Al, uh, but he enjoyed his presence.

So I think Cooper's approach was one that gave him, uh, a result very different, uh, to that of Tom Dowd who, who took over the, uh, production for the next album.

Yeah.

Gimme Back My Bullets.

The title track failed to chart.

After the top 10 success of Nothing Fancy, why do you think this album struggled commercially despite containing songs that have aged very well?

Well, to begin with, um, Tom Dowd, he didn't find it easy working with the band.

You know, he was a man very rigid, uh, tight studio discipline.

I mean, I think, I don't know how many dozens of people my father wrote songs with, from Van Morrison to my mom.

Tom Dowd has a co-write.

It's a couple-

Oh, your mom.

Yeah.

But he was-

Which one is the Tom Dowd co-write?

Take Me Back.

hear Eric and Dwayne.

And there's a sequence on that in the Tom Dowd movie where he pulls the guitar solos out.

But you can hear it on online or something like that and i think if i had an opportunity to hear isolated tracks on some of these three guitar things i could then reconstruct them in my head when i you know what i mean when i heard the whole thing yeah um but they're not they're not all out there well we were you were talking about the hells on both ends um this highway is the only highway in the united states that begins and ends in the same state which is tennessee but while going through other states.

And so hell's on both ends, so I don't know what that says about Tennessee.

And there was a great history with that.

Uh, there's a great documentary called Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, and it's mostly the history of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun and his brother, Nesu.

I think you'll find it fascinating.

Where do you see it?

Wow.

And I have the D- I have the DVD.

So it's Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, if you're interested in that kind of thing.

And he actually worked on the Manhattan Project-

But Donn is one of the greatest engineers that America's ever had.

Um, you know, along with Tom Dowd and Al Schmitt, and, you know, and all those guys used to, were...

they liked ribbon mics, you know.

And, uh, so I learned about ribbon mics.

This song was the B-side to Willis' song What Am I Living For, which reached number one on the R&B chart and number nine on the pop chart.

The recording is the first rock and roll record released in stereo, engineered by Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records.

So here is number eight, Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes.

Shoop, bop.