I like Brian Eno’s productions, but quotes like this drive me mad:
The other day I heard a band who had the worst singer, the most out of time drummer and most out of tune guitarist I’ve ever heard on a professional record, and I thought, at last, the reaction against pro-tools perfection has set in. A pro-tools engineer would have sorted it all out, but this band was an actual celebration of human frailty. It was so rough it was really encouraging.
I don’t really recall out of tune and out of time performances on too many of Brian Eno’s productions. Perhaps the next U2 recording will filled with “an actual celebration of human frailty,” but I doubt it.
