Kevin Renick: Not So Up In the Air
by Larry Crane
Your career of playing music is kind of more recent to the public eye. Well, yeah, I was described as going through the looking glass, 'cause for many years, even though I did music as a hobby...
interviews
by Larry Crane
Liam Watson (bonus)
by Larry Crane
In issue #15 we ran a rather brief interview with Liam Watson about his London-based Toe Rag Studios. In the following 12 years I always remarked that Tape Op needed to revisit Toe Rag and chat with...
Steve Albini: Nirvana, Pixies, Stooges, PJ Harvey
by Larry Crane
He’s just a really great engineer.Illustration by Miles Hermann In issue #10 of Tape Op we ran an interview with Steve Albini by my pal John Chandler. Being that the piece was actually done for...
Greg Norman: Life at Electrical Audio
by Larry Crane
Greg Norman has worn many hats. For 15 years he's worked for Steve Albini helping build and run Chicago's Electrical Audio, but he also records at his home and takes on many other projects. And he's a...
Simon Trought & Soup Studio: London's Hippest Albums Beneath a Uke Shop?
by Larry Crane
A studio in the basement of a ukulele shop in London? It seemed like a nutty idea, but there it was, and owner Simon Trought, along with Giles Barrett, had been knocking out some of London's coolest...
Jack Miller: In AZ w/ Duane Eddy & Lee Hazlewood
by Larry Crane
Known as the "Father of Audio" in Arizona, Jack Miller has had a long history in the recording world that including a mid-'50's mobile recording gig in Chicago, some hit-making, late-'50s sessions in...
Bob Weston & Jason Ward: Chicago Mastering Service
by Larry Crane
I interviewed Bob Weston in 2000 [Tape Op #18] about his music recording career to date. Bob and I remained in touch, and along the way I met Jason Ward, another studio guy who toured as a live...
Brian Eno: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads
by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane
With his early years in Roxy Music, arty solo albums in the '70s, the creation and conceptualization of "ambient" music, groundbreaking collaborations with David Bowie and as the producer of albums...
Justin Ulysses Morse: Behind the Gear w/ Roll Music
by Larry Crane
Roll Music Systems has been slowly bringing out pro audio products since 2003. Starting as a small recording studio in Minneapolis, this company (Justin Ulysses Morse and John Sommer, aka Johnny...
Richard Alderson: 60's Free Jazz, Dylan's 'Electric' Tour, & More
by Larry Crane, Coke Ennyday, Alex Stimmel
In the insane world of recording and record production, we occasionally stumble across someone whose work puts him or her at many important junctures in music history, yet their name remains unknown...
Jack White III: The White Stripes, The Dead Weather
by Larry Crane
As a member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather and the Rome project (with Danger Mouse, Norah Jones and Daniele Luppi [Tape Op #40]), Jack White III has certainly proved himself...
Vance Powell: Blackbird Studios, Jars of Clay, Wanda Jackson
by Larry Crane
Too often people assume that those of us in the field of music recording had a distinct idea of what we wanted to do when we started. The truth is almost always that it's a wild and unpredictable path...