Anyone remember Tex Koenig? 40 ago he said to me once, "Never record anything you can't take on the road with you." Since everything I've done for recording was just me, I just have to figure out how to play 3 or four instruments at once. Seriously, recording is a different medium, not better, or worse, just different. I like to do recordings that sound like they were done live, even if sweetened a little bit later. My favorites to listen to are still the old Moe Asch sessions. He would stick everyone in the studio, poisitioning them in relation to the mic to get the right balance, and then let the machines run. The energy that comes through after 60 years is still amazing.

Mark Ross