Wall of Sound

Why, hello there, and welcome to this week's episode of Made in California, where we will be talking about Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound and the Wrecking Crew and all that good stuff.

So basically what's happened here is I was supposed to talk about David Marks' exit and Phil Spector's influence on Brian and the Wall of Sound.

I genuinely intended to talk about that for about 5 to 10 minutes before we did the Shutdown Volume 2 album review.

But basically, I just prattled on for ages and ages, and each of those kind of ended up making more sense as an episode in its own right.

Go for it.

So, and then I also have...

That's going to tie into my theory, my new unique theory on explaining the wall of sound.

Okay.

So there's a particular clock which has got an LED grid inside it, which Hackaday readers have discovered how to hack.

uh and repurpose and uh i uh yeah i decided that i was i was far too busy i didn't have the even though it's a relatively cheap item i didn't have the spare cash and i didn't have the i've already got far too many projects but but i did also see this week a story in wired and wired have this story we linked 150 ikea speakers to make a wall of sound And these are very small, couple of inch square, CalSup Bluetooth speakers.

And I recently come across these in a exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum in a display where they were being used to, you could trigger them, I believe, with an RFID tag and they would play a little recording to you.

And they're very small, cute, pocketable kind of size speakers.

So I get corrected in the U S a lot, but you know, then again, I think the Swedes probably know how to pronounce their own company.

Um, Yeah, they have a lot of inexpensive ways of doing some really cool stuff.

And I was attracted to the article here, too, just by the label, the wall of sound.

Yeah, this is very literally a wall of sound speakers that you would put together and make a wall out of it.

A lawsuit alleging that his song Suicide Solution contributed to a teenager's suicide was ultimately dismissed.

Phil Spector, the legendary music producer known for creating the Wall of Sound recording technique, was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

On February 3, 2003, Clarkson was found shot to death inside Spector's mansion in Alhambra, California, after meeting him at a nightclub earlier that night.

Prosecutors argued that Spector shot Clarkson while the defense claimed she died by suicide.

So we've decided to put out this episode as a sort of departure of David Mark's episode.

And then next week is going to be a full exploration into Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound.

So, um... do come and join us for that.

And then the following week, we will be starting on Shutdown Volume 2.

And I was like, Jeff, so you've wrote other songs.

Like, what else did you write? And he was like, oh, well, I was on the Wall of Sound.

And I wrote Be My Baby.

Have you heard that? I was like, have I heard

I just got to say, baby.

A cover version of Call from the Spectre's Wall of Sound.

Andy Kim in 1969, who made a top ten entry out of that in the American charts.

Here's how the contest works.

But a guy that I know you follow, Phil Spector.

Without Phil Spector, he kind of turbocharged this whole era of girl groups with what he called the wall of sound.

And from that came, I think there are probably right now, I believe, seven songs from the girl groups in the Rolling Stones list.

top 200, and I think 20 more in the top 500.

Yeah, that's a good way to describe it.

Very Wall of Sound.

So your initial thoughts before we go diving deep into everything.

I still got words for Mick and Keith.