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NYT bestseller 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.' 2X Grammy winner (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Dead Man's Pop). Music Critic, Gannett.
Aug 6, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
This is a common misunderstanding of the process. Tim & DTAS were perfectly recorded & produced. Paul wrote great songs, the band cut amazing tracks & they added beautiful touches during overdubs. But much of that work was fundamentally lost/obscured in the mixing stage Doesn't matter what a band creates in the studio if, in the mixing process, those parts, performances, & ideas are edited out, muddied up, or rendered inaudible. And it's no coincidence that DTAS & Tim are the two mixes the band had the least input on during their entire career.