The latest podcast of Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show on Absolute Radio in the UK featured a 10-minute segment taped at Abbey Road Studios with Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin. Martin discussed some of his past projects and current ones.
He called working with the Beatles Rock Band game "great fun" and "a great experience." "The weird thing about it was we spent years making sure every single track in the 'Rock Band' game sounding perfect and how exactly it did on record by it. It's a very complicated thing to do. And the weird thing is working in the video game industry anything you do is gone within two months. I went from working from working with Cirque du Soleil and feeling like a nerd because they're all athletes and acrobats to working with computer games people where I suddenly became Adonis," he said.
Lloyd asked Martin if working so closely with the Beatles recordings as he has make it impossible to hear them in the same way again. "The way I listen to a Beatles track on the radio I really enjoy it. I've done a lot of hours work on Beatles and there's no better band to work on for a lot of hours."
Martin said he's currently working on the soundtrack for the George Harrison Martin Scorsese documentary. "I'm currently working on that, which we're just finishing up, which is really good, really interesting," he told Lloyd. "Music's always been a big part of his (Scorsese) films and he's incredibly precise about what he wants. At the same time, I have to be precise how the Beatles' music should be in 5.1. It's been really good fun." He also said he's working on music for a Cirque du Soleil show about Michael Jackson.
Martin called Abbey Road "the best studio in the world" and says he has his own private area in which to work. He also revealed his favorite biscuit is Chocolate Olivers, which his father brought to a Beatles recording sessions. He said John Lennon liked them so much he bought cases of them.
You can download the podcast from iTunes here. The interview with Giles Martin comes in the last 10 minutes of the 2/24 show featuring Tom Jones.
(Thanks to Nicole.)
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I'm looking forward to this. I like Scorsese, I hope it turns out to be great.
I second that..I too am really looking forward to the Harrison film. I am sure the soundtrack will be of the finest sound quality with Giles Martin at the helm and being that it will also be recorded at Abby Road studio. ...Can't wait.
Can't wait for the film. Can't say I'm thrilled about Giles Martin doing the sound track.
Has anybody listened to The Best Of George in headphones? It's awful. Just plain awful. The panning and balance is completely out of whack. Cheer Down is unlistenable in headphones.
Just awful.
Buy some better speakers.
Are you referring to the old "The Best of George Harrison" or the more recent "Let It Roll"? "The Best of George Harrison" certainly doesn't sound great, but "Let It Roll" is fine. And Giles had nothing to do with the older CD.
Yeah, obviously I'm talking about the new one, Let It Roll.
And my speaker's are fine. They're great in fact. Listen to the rapid panning affect on the snares in Cheer Down. It's unnecessary and it sounds AWFUL. Especially in HEADPHONES, if you'd bothered to read the damn thing Mr Anonymous.
I quite liked him until he said he's working on a Michael Jackson project!
Where is the bloody tracklist for the soundtrack album? We have heard Scorsese say
the film (and or soundtrack) will feature never heard before Harrison music, Oliva Harrison
also said in this context (the film) that she found a Harrison demo from 1966, never recorded
by the Beatles, or anyone besides the demo. Some Harrison rarites are so far overdue, it makes
me wonder if these people are totally indifferent to the subject. I Would really like to see the soundtrack
list.
Can't we all just get along?
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