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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Brothers in arms 40th anniversary edition
« Last post by 2manyguitars on Today at 12:34:14 AM »Are you shure that the fills are Terry’s? Doesn’t Omar say that they were his in the interview?
Pretty sure they are Terry's. I listened to the tom-tom fills in the main song and the sound is identical to the tom-toms you hear in the intro. Plus interviews with Neil and Terry themselves.
DEARY DEARY ME. Many of you hardcore fans have a lot to answer for (see below.)
I'm afraid many of you will be shaking your head at this as it's out of your respective comfort zones...
Firstly regarding drum parts - I'm not sure. Keeping the intro is one thing but then going through the track and taking bits off of the original drum track is another thing altogether, bearing in mind this was back in the 80's. You can easily cut and paste bits and pieces in modern times on DAW. But back in the 80's... come on....
HOWEVER - that interview SOURCE from above i've mentioned before on this forum but no one could answer or bothered answering my post. MY WORD. It is when Terry Williams was just about to reveal the reason why Hal Lindes was axed from the band around 1984-85, but that part/answer was edited out. So Terry said something like: "poor old Hal, I don't know if I should say this...." Then BANG the rest of the answer was edited out. I mention this because when I brought this up a few years ago most fans on this forum just ignored the reason why / couldn't be bothered to find out. Maybe they want to cover up certain members of the band? So what is the answer then? OR are you going to look to Ed Bicknel for answers?
Drums were separated and recorded onto different tracks using careful mic positioning, noise gates, and gated reverb. It wouldn't be hard to keep just the tom fills if that's what they wanted.
