#american sound studio

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis during recording session at the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. January 22, 1969. ♥

The prints above comes from the video linked on this Tumblr post, together with info on that recording day in Memphis when Elvis met Roy Hamilton.

#i don't care if the photos are blurry or if there's just a glimpse of EP in there #it actually makes them look more real and intimate #besides... it's elvis #elvis #the first ones are not properly photos by the way #they are screenshots from a footage of that day #i often prints screen on elvis' footage #so i have even more material to print later #yes i plan on Polaroiding those #physical pictures are way better than digitals #specially when it comes to the most special photographs to you #elvis history #elvis presley #roy hamilton #1969 #american sound studio #memphis tn #from elvis in memphis man #all about from elvis in memphis album is fascinating

[lllsaslll]

Today's lil' Elvis Music Gem🙏

Once again from the Elvis Back in Memphis album, which is quickly becoming my new favorite. This time "Stranger In My Own Home Town" has been standing out to me lately for the suprisingly poignant lyrics. While Elvis never wrote any of the music he recorded, his song choice is always delibrate and can give a glimps into his headspace at the time of recording, and "Stranger In My Own Home Town" is no different. Recorded in 1969 at the American Sound Studio after the success of The 68' Comeback Special. Elvis really is back in his own home town, recording in Memphis for the first time since 1955 before signing with RCA. The electricity and creative life in Elvis is felt through these recordings which went on to revitalize his recording career after a decade of musical movie soundtracks.

While not one of the bigger hits from the sessions like "Suspicious Minds", or "In The Ghetto", this song stands out to me for how comfortable he seems in this new laid back bluesy sound. It feels fresh and lived in, meaningful when he sings about returning home after everything's already changed.

#todays lil hidden elvis gem #a lot of the things these lyrics make me think of are also in relation to later years in his life. tho im sure there were similar #happenings and strained relationships in the late 60s too. understatement. #elvis music #elvis #elvis presley #back in memphis #60s elvis #stranger in my own hometown #okay but the part where he screams out ~blow your brains out man~ i....thoughts i have too many thoughts #atleast that what it sounds like hes saying to me thats not part of the lyrics so #70s elvis #my edit #1969 #american sound studio #Youtube

[11ersfilmkritiken]

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds[1969]

Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds[1969]

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#1969 #American Sound Studio #Elvis Presley #Musik #Number 1 Hit #Pop #Rock #Rock & Roll

[depressedandasian]

The most cursed aspect of these joke casting posts is that 99% of the actors are American.

BG3 works because it conforms to all stereotypes of British vernacular.

#baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate iii #larian studios #larian #american accents would sound horrendous

[cosmermaid]

I'm kind of sighing and shaking my head at discussions of Baldur's Gate 3 being censored for console release in Japan and how people keep bringing up American sensibilities to compare to what is acceptable in Japan.

C'mon... Baldur's Gate 3 is a Belgian game. American culture actually has nothing to do with this discussion.

#baldur's gate 3 #BG 1 and 2 weren't even American #Bioware is a Canadian studio #And Larian is based out of Belgium #though they're kind of obsessed with giving all of their characters British VAs #the first two games had a lot of north american accents #now there's only three characters in BG3 that sound american #Ketheric Thorm #Sarevok Anchev #and Naaber...

[graciousdragon]

there's some. religious protester in the main square of my college campus rn? he's got a sign with a list of different types of people who are apparently going to hell and he's yelling something about sinners and repenting i think (couldn't really hear him over my music). i couldn't read the sign too well either since i was far away and also walking but i've deadass never seen one of these people in person before. if he's still there after my class is over i'll try and see if i can read his sign

#rys.txt #that was. something #i've seriously never seen someone doing that in person before i've just seen videos #i think he's got a camera strapped to his chest too? like a gopro harness it looks like? again he was too far away to see clearly #sorry dude i couldn't hear your ranting over the sweet sounds of mania. the 7th studio album from american rock band fall out boy

[sunburnacoustic]

"I had become a fan of theirs, particularly after hearing their last record," says Rich Costey. "This was conveyed to them by some mutual acquaintances and we decided to collaborate. They had worked with the same people for a while, and I think they were interested in mixing it up a bit. By the time that I came into the picture, they had already recorded several tracks for the new album with John Cornfield and Paul Reed: 'Butterflies And Hurricanes' and 'Blackout' were among them. Those had gone very well, but they were interested in trying out some other ideas and seeing what else might be out there."

Costey would end up mixing 'Blackout', which utilised mandolin and real strings recorded at AIR Lyndhurst in north-west London, and recutting the vocal, bass and piano on 'Butterflies And Hurricanes'.

Rich Costey on working with Muse for the first time, Sound On Sound interview, December 2003

#Rich Costey #He also talks about how the first time he met Muse there was a slight Brit-American cultural misunderstanding #He said Americans use superlatives while the Brits were more reserved #so he thought they were unimpressed when they said a mix was ‘fine’ while the band were in fact thrilled. Cute. #Muse #muse band #Muse Absolution #2003 #Ruled By Secrecy #matt bellamy #chris wolstenholme #dom howard #muse interviews #Muse quotes #Production #recording #in studio #Sound on Sound

[bmpmp3]

it sucks when ur trying to find more music similar to a specific song but all ur “songs like ___” or r/ifyoulikeblank google searches are yielding NOTHING because everyone else looking wants more music similar to different criteria of said song that you do. point #834904985403 as to why we need to bring the hyper specific microgenre names of electronic music to all genres (joking. ....unless?)

#but for real ive been fighting for my life for like MONTHS #trying to find more music that rocks as much as even a FRACTION of your best american girl #but all the recommendations are all like 'here is more guitars and women singing' and im like NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND #its not just women with guitars its THE DISTORTION the fuzzy noise the way it builds her specific singing style the power the seriousness #the REVERB. the reverb............................... #even putting aside the transcendental revelations about identity that song gives a lot of us whenever we hear it for a second #i also think its just like one of the best rock songs ive ever heard #i like the other songs by the same artist ive heard (although shes like. a super diverse musician so like) #(every other song i hear from her is totally a new thing LOL its good!! i like that kinda thing) #but there was something like. like i said before: transcendental going on with that song specifically #the depth of her voice amplified by the reverb... the scream of the distortion guitars crashing in at the end of the like bridge/break #a piece of studio recorded music that emulates so perfectly the sound of a life performance with just like the ambience of it all #sorry for musicposting (said to the tune of sorry for party rocking) again. i will continue my search #for now i at least have the company of mitskis other rock-y stuff which is also good. i really like fireworks especially

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Aha - Take On Me 1985

"Take On Me" is a song by the Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha. The original version from 1984 was produced by Tony Mansfield and remixed by John Ratcliff. The 1985 international hit version was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album, Hunting High and Low.

In 1984, Andrew Wickham was the international vice-president for Warner Bros Records America, and their A&R man in London. He immediately signed A-ha to Warner Brothers America, after learning several previous attempts had failed to make "Take On Me" a commercial success. The next release was not successful either and featured a very ordinary performance video. He authorised considerable investment in the band: on Slater's recommendation, renowned producer Alan Tarney was commissioned to refine the song. The new recording achieved a cleaner and more soaring sound. It was re-released in the UK, but the record label's office in London gave them little support, and the single flopped for the second time.

Wickham placed the band on high priority and applied a lateral strategy with further investment. Steve Barron directed a revolutionary rotoscoping animation music video which took six months to create, using professional artists. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete. The single was released in the US one month after the music video, and immediately appeared in the Billboard Hot 100 and was a worldwide smash, reaching No. 1 in numerous countries.

At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won six awards: Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Special Effects in a Video, and Viewer's Choice, and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year. It was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986.

"Take On Me" received a total of 95% yes votes, and is currently the most liked song on this poll blog! 🥳

#finished #high votes #high yes #high reblog #low no #aha #80s

[curiousorigins]

Man, I just really miss when they bothered lighting things on TV Shows and in Movies. Like the shadows were beautiful and everything had more depth.

Now they just brighten up everything use fills and like add shadows after.

It looks cruddy. Maybe because with all the post-darkening it's too much work to make them move when things move? Like they're doing their best, but nothing beats a scene that was lit properly in the first place.

I'm watching a no-name B-Horror Movie from 2005 (This was right before they started lighting everything cruddy and doing it in post.) And I'm 3 minutes in and it's just so much more beautiful than what's on TV and what's in Movies today. Like I can think of one movie that had particularly good lighting, and that's "Ready or Not". Probably because it was an Indie Movie and the people were filming in a historical place and were required to light it very carefully. (Similar to what happened with Woman on Fire which was also quite beautiful and an indie film.)

#Lighting #Horror Movies #TV and Films are legitimately so much uglier and it's harder to see everything than before. #Same with Sound stuff. #Like it's become so much about the Studio making them fix everything in POST so they can rush rush on set. #And they've destroyed the artistry of it. #Like they might as well be shooting everything in Green Screen Sound Stages with an Insane amount of lights #With how things Looks #And it's not the Vis Dev Artists' fault or the POST people. #They start out with a crappy base and they can only build it so much. #I mean they're not even doing focus right anymore on so many movies! #It's literally because of Studios Greed. #Same reason why there's like only 1 interesting movie that comes out in American Cinema Wide Release #That isn't a remake a sequel/continuation or Based on a Book. #Hollywood doesn't take risks anymore. #Big Fish -one of my favorite movies of the modernish era wouldn't be made today. #It's too weird and interesting and risky.

[hooked-on-elvis]

I always say From Elvis in Memphis is my favorite Elvis album but I never actually shared the FULL ALBUM here — even tho it's easy to find it available online, here it goes:

This album is turning 55 years old this year, on June. This is a MASTERPIERCE. No kidding.⚡

#do yourself a favor #listen to this #fully #1969 album #american sound studio #elvis presley #chips moman #elvis music #elvis the king #elvis fandom #elvis fans #elvis history #60s elvis #60s music #elvis #Youtube

[lllsaslll]

Today's lil' Elvis Music Gem🙏

Yes, again with more Back In Memphis! But this time we've got "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" and the interesting Neil Diamond-filled story of the famed American Sound Studio sessions.

In 1969 just the day after his Elvis' 34th birthday when Elvis was planning his return to music recording, Marty Lacker successfuly convinced Elvis to skip on Nashville and to instead give Chips Moman and his Memphis-based American Sound Studio a chance. When Elvis agreed (without even consulting the Colonel first) but with a tight turn around, Moman had to reschedule the recording sessions of Neil Diamond that had already been set just four days out. "Fuck Neil Diamond, he'll just have to be postponed. Tell Elvis he's on." Moman told Lacker as he called from the front hall phone at Graceland.

Soon after, during a break in recording due to Elvis' cold turning to laryngitis, Elvis and the guys were going through the demos back at Graceland. When realizing the selection of songs being brought in by the Colonel were aweful Elvis made an important declaration; that from then on he would pick his own music. He asked that everyone be bringing in songs, "... from now on I want to hear every song I can get my hands on, and if I've got a piece of the publishing, that's fine, but if I don't and I want to do the song, I'm going to do it."

And the boys got to work, bringing in new music for Elvis to sample beyond the usual songs that the Colonel had special interests in. George Klein having connections with artists through his TV show then immediately got on the phone with Neil Diamond. He may have been kicked from his original recording slot, but Elvis' prior L.A. next-door neighbor agreed to him singing "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" when the sessions resumed in late January and February.

#elvis #elvis presley #elvis music #american sound studio #back in memphis #1969 #60s elvis #70s elvis #neil diamond #and the grass wont pay no mind #todays lil hidden elvis gem #seeing the dates all these things happened is insane..the 68 special had just aired at the begining of december and right at the start of #january these sessions are started #and like the majority of elvis' hits from the 70s were picked learned and recorded right then #also how is there so little documentation or interaction between neil and elvis #but most importantly LOOK AT OUR BOY GO not only did he say fuck ur shit songs colonel im gonna play the music i wanna play #AND ANNNDD he makes the decision to change the studio and session musicians hes working with by cutting in memphis instead of nashville for #the first time since the mid 50s...since before RCA #AND AND A N D this is immediately after the 68 special when elvis was finally getting to be creative and call shots and have people from #outside of his usual bubble or the profit obsessed producers of hollywood around him #only thing is it kinda dampers things to hear that lacker was not a fan of anything else elvis really did past these sessions. idk why #he was so obsessed with this studio specifically but idk it reads as bias but idk why he would be to american sound #Youtube

[neil-gaiman]

Hello!!

First of all, THANK YOU!!! The world has been feeling harder and more hopeless to me in recent years, and individuals like yourself help more than I will ever be able to express to bring light and hope back into my world. Loving and obsessing over gems like Good Omens, and American Gods (the novel at least, I must admit I never saw the show 🙈) have always given me motivation, sparked my creativity, and made me feel so much love for this, often unfortunately cruel, world. I can't express the solace it brings to me when the creators of the things I love are thoughtful and decent human beings. So, again, THANK YOU 🫀🫀🫀

I just finished my second viewing of Season 2 and have a question for you (my apologies if it has already been asked and/or answered and I missed it)!! 

How did you select the song "Everyday" by Buddy Holly? It is absolutely perfect on so many different levels, and for so many different threads and characters, all while still encompassing the perfect feelings of this show. I always include playlists with the stories I write, and often agonize over which song is the best choice for certain moments. You had to pick one song to encompass the entirety of it, and it truly blew me away! 

Thank you this Season and for everything you do; it really does mean the world to so many of us 🫀🫀🫀

In February of 1991 (I think) Terry Pratchett and I were staying in the Chateau Marmont hotel in LA. These days it is a very fancy hotel but back then it was pretty manky and run down. We were being put up by a film company and each morning we would fax over an outline for a new version of Good Omens the Movie and each afternoon we'd go to the studio for a meeting and we would realise that nobody had actually read what we had sent over that morning. Then we would go back to the hotel and work on trying to incorporate the studio notes on the outline they hadn't actually read into what we were doing.

We worked up in Terry's room because it had heating, and it was incredibly cold in LA that February, especially cold because I was in a chalet out in the grounds and there weren't heaters or extra blankets or anything in the chalet.

And at some point in there we were talking about music, and I suggested a few scary and ominous songs that might work to signal the end times. And Terry said "What about Buddy Holly's song Everyday? It sounds so upbeat and cheerful. But what if it was about the end of the world?" And I got all excited at the idea of Everyday being the Good Omens theme song.

So it's really just there to make Terry happy.

#everyday #I wrote a short story called THE GOLDFISH POOL AND OTHER STORIES about that time and that place

[theabigailthorn]

In the response to a person asking why you don't move to the US, one of your reasons for staying in Britain was "The entire US entertainment industry is about to move to Britain!". Is that a thing that's happening that I just haven't heard about? Or was it a joke?

Oh that's real. Almost everything is filmed here now. All the Marvel stuff, all the Disney stuff, Barbie, Venom, House of the Dragon, it's all done here because we have very low wages, tax breaks for production companies, and very strict anti-union laws. You've also got Europe on your doorstep, which is great for location shoots, and Romania is a cheap place to film too - Wednesday is all shot in Bucharest and Django was filmed both there and in Transylvania. The notable exception is The Last of Us - Season 2 is going to shoot in Canada 'cause they need snow. It is, no jokes, cheaper to make a British street look like Las Vegas than it is to film in Las Vegas. Pinewood Studios in London is building an extension that'll make it the biggest movie studio in the world. I think the WGA and SAG strike victories will probably accelerate this trend: they can't replace Americans with AI, so they're going to replace them with Brits!

Which might sound good in theory to Brits cause it means jobs, but not if those jobs are exploitative. The stars, director, and the bosses will be Americans, but the drivers, makeup artists, crew, caterers, background artists, supporting players, editors and so on will be underpaid, overworked Brits, and the profits will go primarily to American companies.

I talked about this on tiktok a while ago:

[darkyhelena]

Bitches be like: "ohh Unholyverse is the best MCR fic!", "nahh A Splitting of the Mind that is!" when we all know that the best MCR fic is Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, the fourth studio album by the American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on November 22, 2010 by Reprise Records. Its songs are associated with the band's well known sound of alternative rock...

#absolute banger #also by my fav author Gerard Arthur Way #my chemical romance #mcr #gerard way #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #lol #danger days: the true lives of the fabulous killjoys #killjoys #fanfic

[lizardsfromspace]

The queen of dubious Hollywood plagiarism cases is Sophia Stewart. She's the woman who The Matrix and The Terminator were stolen from, if you've heard that legend; she won a billion dollars and her victory over the studios was so big it was only ever reported by...the college paper of Salt Lake Community College. In truth she didn't win the case, she won the right to not have it dismissed, which it eventually was when she failed to show up.

Like, she wasn't claiming The Matrix and The Terminator were stolen from her work as a whole; she claimed they were stolen from the same story, even though the only real similarity they have is "robots destroyed the Earth and there's human rebels". How can this be? Well the story was unpublished in the 80s. But you can buy it now! ...but that version's from after she made her case, so who knows if it looks like the original. The Amazon reviews include a lot of glowing ones from people without avatars, and a lot of one star ones from people who seem to exist saying that it's more or less a plot outline and the majority of the book is just legal documents

But you don't have to dig into that bc she claims she sent it to a contest for story ideas run by the Wachowskis. In 1986. When they were not only not filmmakers, but a teenager and in college respectively. That's ten years before they made their first feature film, and she claims they were running a contest for story ideas in a national magazine she cannot name, even though she obsessively documents every other aspect of the plagiarism case. You literally don't have to look up any other facet of her argument: this one basic fact making no sense chronologically, and being the only element she can't produce, lets you dismiss the rest. The Wachowskis simply were not running national filmmaking competitions when they were in college

And yet! It spreads. It still spreads. When the fourth Matrix movie came out there were "Actually, the Wachowskis stole The Matrix from an African-American woman" reminders everywhere. It spreads on TikTok, Twitter, and even Tumblr. All from people who haven't actually tried looking up her story, and who are going off a Utah community college paper's misinterpretation that her slightly delaying losing her case was somehow her winning billions. It sounds good, and that's all that matters

#film #movies #plagiarism