The Rise and fall of Me recording Oasis

I’ve done quite a few long, in depth interviews about the Oasis recording sessions. It’s difficult finding anything new to say about them. So I’m going to copy one of the last interviews I did and see how that sits.

I had the best time re-mastering Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory and Be Here Now with Ian Cooper. He is a gentleman and his stories are extremely funny. It was a good experience digging out the original masters and listening to Ian do his minimal thing. The best thing was hearing the master tapes of Be Here Now: Ian’s been listening to the original cd, and he reckons it was messed up somehow in the mastering……I’d spent years convinced that my mixes weren’t very good……but listening to my 1/2″ masters, with Ian’s very minimal mastering……damn…..my mixes were ok all along.

Also, I listened to the Mustique demos for the first time in seventeen years last week and that got me writing something new about that session…and about the b-side sessions. So have a read of my ramblings if you dare….

I have to ask: does anyone find this stuff vaguely interesting? Let me know, ‘cos I’m more than happy to shut up about these sessions that happened over a brief period many long years ago.