Killer 4001 Sound

[rictified]

John,
I was a studio in Stomeln, Germany in 1981 run by a guy named Dieter Dierks who produced The Scorpions at the time, and anyway Barry Palmer was in the other studio (was a double studio) with some German band. I had never heard of Triumvirat at the time, they were never big in the states. He told us a lot of stories though (headlining over Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and blowing it because his voice was live on the TV show and he couldn't hear it properly, stuff like that).
We used to meet in the local pubs every night after recording all day. It never failed, someone would walk up to him and ask him if he were Barry Palmer, and he'd say yeah, bla bla bla, he was a humble guy, very witty, and had a great voice. If I remember correctly he had just done a solo single of "Maybe I'm Amazed" (or some McCartney tune)
The best part was that he liked my band and wanted us to go to England and be his backup band, I was all for it but one of the guys was married, the others had too much going on back in the states, things like that, and we were going to be stars anyway, haha. I would have gone in a heartbeat though.
No actually the best part was that he walked in when I was dubbing in a bass part, and raved about my playing, I was just playing a simple blues riff, so I couldn't understand what the fuss was about, until later when I realized how much the British revered the blues.

[mortivan]

Sergio - thanks for the suggestion. I'll check out Spartacus.

Bob - cool story!

From what I heard, the album had a lot of ELP influence, and the RIC playing was nice

[rictified]

I've got to get something by them I've still never heard them, and there were several CD's a few months ago on Ebay, I thought of buying one but didn't.
I did hear his McCartney cover back then and it was great, he sounded sort of like a cross between McCartney and Joe Cocker, at least on that song.
Oh yea, he was bummed out because his band had never made it in the states, he said the closest they ever got was a tour of Canada. I think that may have been a factor in their break up.

[gpatt5762]

No, I think the only Who song with a RM 1999 is I Can't Explain, actually.

Garry

[ken_james]

Which was played in the studio by Jimmy Page oddly enough.

[dougp]

No, Jimmy Page played the second guitar on "Can't Explain"; he played lead guitar on the B-side, "Bald Headed Woman".

http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/ICantExplain.html
http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/BaldHeadedWoman.html