Engineer and producer Glyn Johns appears frequently in The Beatles documentary Get Back, all about the month of writing and jamming that became the band’s Let It Be album, a period of time that had climactically ended with the legendary rooftop concert. And if you work with The Beatles on a London rooftop on a cold January day in 1969, you might just find yourself a few years later working with another band of musical hippies an ocean away from London smack dab in the middle of America.
The beginning goes something like this: Various free-spirited musicians in the early 1970s in Springfield, Missouri, started playing together in different configurations. They were mostly having fun, but they were also beginning to write songs and support each other in playing them.…
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Goldmine (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2024