A massively important producer, but rather overlooked.

Your favourite of these records?

I had no idea Tom Wilson produced those Sun Ra albums... must start paying closer attention to these things. Also wrongly stated in another thread that Zappa produced the Burt Ward album, now discover it was Wilson too! (though Zappa did write and arrange the album... or bits of it)

Anyway, White Light / White Heat for me please, thank God they ditched Nico...

Wow...you are right.

Aside from the fact I don't know most of these, even the ones I do know (Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and VU most of all) I'd still have to think for a week to make up my mind. :o

I mean I *love* VU, but I don't play WL/WH much these days/years much as I like it.

The singles Like A Rolling Stone and The Sound of Silence were *events* and not just to me.

I'll come back on this one. :rolleyes:

Bastard. :devil2:

my voice is higher than average, I've tried to sing like her. :rolleyes: :D

On reflection tho, true she wouldn't have worked on WL/WH. :whistle:

Man, you sound more like Mo Tucker :lol:

:ohdear:

working on it anyway.

got good news re my new event in london on friday night tho, and no I wouldn't be singing much at it, if it all.

and I can bring friends along in my car as i'd have my own PA in the pub.

:devil2:


hmm. this poll

I've voted for Sound of Silence.

Yes not as 'out there' as some of the other stuff thrue.

but the early version is a bit part of the iconic film (ok wilson didn't produce that version, but it's the same song) The Graduate, and the song itself is anthemic.

Much as I love VU and Nico, and WLWH, I don't listen to them religiously, and while this may seem facile - I enjoy parts of them more than the whole myself, while I like the whole of 'Sound of Silence'.

And the song will go thru my mind more than anything on & Nico for instance, despite loving Sunday Morning and WFTM a lot.

so SOS it is.

:)

Yes, he was there at several crucial moments in 60s music. Sometimes he didn't do that much - but he was the interface between band and record company - for instance with the Mothers (Zappa did a lot of the production). He also pushed Dylan onto the electric guitar and shaped the Bringing It All Back Home sessions. Quiet unusually for the 60s - considering some of the types of music he was dealing with - he was a black guy.... one of the only black guys working as a producer in the 60s.

silence like a cancer grows...

not that I'm trying to influence the voting :rolleyes: :D