![]() So, I would be sitting there for hours, and we’d finally get an okay strings or brass sound, and I would go, “Ok, it just needs a little,” and Donn would go, “Don’t touch it.” I’d say, “Well, no, just a…” All of a sudden, this sound would go from lush to “Weeeeeee.” (laughs) It would be another two hours to get the sound back. He would sit at the console and go, “Oh, jeez.” Ted would be out the door. Donn, without reservation, would make it apparent to me that this was the last place on Earth that he felt like being right now. ![]() I remember our engineer, Donn Landee, whenever I would do keyboard overdubs – especially with synths – Ted (Templeman) would make up some excuse for why he had to leave, and poor Donn would be left alone with me. And at the time, they were considered some of the worst sounds ever developed for any record. Michael McDonald: I think some of the synth sounds that became popular later on in early rap music, which were really kind of squirrelly sounds, I think they actually sampled them off of early Doobie Brothers records. On Recording Keyboards w/ Engineer Donn Landee: INTERVIEW EXCERPT (transcribed by full in bloom): An excerpt from the conversation has been transcribed. You can listen to the entire interview via the embedded iTunes widget below. Dean Delray: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Michael McDonald stops by Let There Be Talk for a great conversation on his amazing career with The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and his solo career. ![]()
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