Re: Simple Minds

I had no idea about the Herbie Hancock Simple Minds conection. I will have
to listen to those albums. I have only heard the first 2 or 3.
On 9 Jul 2013 19:40, "Matthew Clark" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Simple Minds' 5th record "New Gold Dream" and 6th record "Sparkle In The
> Rain" are GREAT records that I re-listen to regularly.  Interestingly, New
> Gold Dream has a track called "Hunter and the Hunted" which features a
> rather lengthy solo by Herbie Hancock.  So my query would be whether it was
> this Hancock connection that let to the overture to Bill to produce their
> 6th record.  If so, I'm kind of glad Laz turned it down because  Sparkle In
> The Rain turned out to be a formative Steve Lillywhite production.  On #7
> Simple Minds hired Jimmy Iovine to produce and guess it was musically all
> over for them after that.  I haven't heard much of Simple Minds' first four
> records, but based on this Wikipedia entry, that might have been another
> time when Laswell was recommended - perhaps Bill asked Herbie to scout them
> out leading to the studio performance on #5?  Any info anyone has on this
> missed entanglement would be interesting to me.  Thanks.
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> Mon Jul 8, 2013 8:11 pm (PDT) . Posted by:"Jonathan Smith" palmer.eldritch<[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Stevie%20Salas>
> An interesting anecdote, thanks.
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> What would Simple Minds produced by Bill Laswell have sounded like? Could
> he have made them good? :)
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