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Their First LP by The Spencer Davis Group enters the album charts in the UK at No20. It will peak three weeks later at No6.Full article:
Spencer Davis : The first album, essentially, was what we played onstage, and the second album kind of went that way, as well. There was stuff on there that we were now getting into that was really good. You can see it was an usual band by the material we were tackling. We were kind of a blues cover band in some ways, with originals thrown in.
We recorded the first album at Olympic Studios, some stuff at Philips in Stanhope Place and we recorded at Lansdowne and at DeLaine Lee. All over the place, wherever we could get in. And we went in and out. We were masters at it. We recorded first or second take, and because we were so tight as a band, we cost them next to nothing. We had no incredible record advance money from anybody.
When we used Pye Studios our engineer was Brian Humphries who had ears like an elephant. Best ears in the business. He was brilliant. He caught us. He knew the band and he knew exactly what to do in that studio. A lot of times these so-called recording engineers were the ones not just putting it on tape but doing the mixing as well.
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We recorded the first album at Olympic Studios, some stuff at Philips in Stanhope Place and we recorded at Lansdowne and at DeLaine Lee. All over the place, wherever we could get in. And we went in and out. We were masters at it. We recorded first or second take, and because we were so tight as a band, we cost them next to nothing. We had no incredible record advance money from anybody.
When we used Pye Studios our engineer was Brian Humphries who had ears like an elephant. Best ears in the business. He was brilliant. He caught us. He knew the band and he knew exactly what to do in that studio. A lot of times these so-called recording engineers were the ones not just putting it on tape but doing the mixing as well.
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