“Kerris says: ‘On the 40 Licks tour, which is where it started, they’d record every single show. They’ve done that for years, but what they’d do with the Licks tour, they would actually record it to a laptop. If you look at any of the old videos from that tour you’ll see a laptop, a Mac laptop sitting behind Charlie, everything’s recorded with these two stereo mics, so they have a rough, they have a full 48-track underneath, but everything goes into that laptop. Everything’s connected to a little distribution amp with five Firewire cables hanging off of it. So while the band was doing their bows and the fireworks were going at the very end, the backline crew would plug in their iPods, synchronize the thing, and put in their bathrobes an iPod that had that night’s show, so when they came offstage, they’d grab their stuff, get in their car and they would have the show with them right then and there. No one had done anything like that at all,'” Variety.com reports.
Variety.com reports, “Soon after the iPod came out, ‘Mick was right on it. He was like, ‘I want to get every night’s show so I can listen to it that night and know what was good and what didn’t work, etc.’ So they established this whole thing working with the background crew, I showed them where you could daisy-chain the iPods and synchronize them at once. So it was really fun. From there they used GarageBand for their last album as they did all their demos.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, when it comes to licensing a tune, it sounds like any old OS will do, but when The Stones want their stuff to work, just like the rest of us, they use Macs and iPods.
A Rolling Stone gathers no moss
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What’s the difference between a Scotsman and a Rolling Stone?
A Rolling Stone says ‘Hey you, get off of my cloud!’
while a Scotsman says ‘Hey McLeod, get off of my ewe!’
(apologies in advance to any Scots – I love your tape)
I’ve only got eyes for ewe!
I got kicked out of university after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock and roll entitled “You, Kant, Always Get What You Want”
@C1
Sometimes you Kuhn.
There was a follow up lecture on botany entitled, “Waiting on a Frond”.
omg C1 i would love to hear it, that is hilarious…..
I then spent 3 years in East Berlin, playing electric clarinet for a techno-skiffle klezmer band called Pink Freud. We split over creative differences, mainly the belief of my band mates that sometimes a guitar neck… is just a guitar neck.
C1: I don’t mean to Meddle but they sound like real Animals. Was that the Final Cut for you?
Kerris was wrong about “Far Away Eyes”, it was one of the better obscure tunes in “Shine A Light”, as it clearly showed the depth and range of the musicians in the Stones.
“On the 40 Licks tour, which is where it started . . .”
I guess the Tootsie Pop mystery has finally been solved.
@ Ampar
One day I just had a momentary lapse of reason and sounded the division bell. Been on the run ever since.
A guy once asked my uncle if he could make a U-Turn. He said, hell, I can make her eyes bug out!
MDN word: oddly enough, not relevant to this post
That was a nice laugh…
And on the subject of the article, there is one thing that I find totally amazing; The Stones used GarageBand…!!!
Having been in music professionally for, oh, about thirty years, I’ve seen a sizable number of heavy acts. Since the mid-eighties (i.e. the appearance of the Mac), they’ve been using computers for music, at various levels. Over that time, a few companies and their products have emerged as standards of music production. For multi-track audio, Pro Tools is king. For home studio, there are MOTU (Digital) Performer (popular in the US), and Steinberg’s Cubase (more so in EU), in addition to C-Lab (succeeded by E-Magic, acquired by Apple) Logic. Long time ago, there was Opcode Vision, but it eventually died.
Big-time musicians generally have a portable Mac. I can’t think of any one of them using Windows. On that mac, they all used to have either Performer, or something similar. These software packages cost upwards of $500 and are high-end professional tools.
To have such high-visibility act as The Stones use GarageBand for their demo work is remarkable. I have to say, I have found myself often going for GarageBand instead of Cubase, and not just for demo work. I have produced a number of short soundtracks for podcasts, radio and TV commercials using nothing but GarageBand and a few JamPacks.
Windows world is just light years behind.
C1: Aren’t you just A Saucerful of Secrets?
Pfft…you lunatics are on the grass!
@C1: Wish you were here.
This is the second time Mick got any satisfaction – the first being with David Bowie.