Jack Douglas has worked with hundreds of artists including Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, The Who, Alice Cooper and produced John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy". Today Jack shares stories and memories of those artists as well as his recent production of Silverplanes' "Airbus" album.
- Starting up w Jack
- Getting involved in Silverplanes
- Geoff Emerick’s final album mix
- Silverplanes “Airbus” LP held back for 5 years
- New record labels – Make Records and Confidential Records
- Jack’s production involvement with Silverplanes
- Jack’s early career – working with The Who on “Who’s Next”
- How Jack works with eccentric creative people
- Getting the best performance from creative people
- John Lennon was the easiest creative person Jack worked with
- Recollections of the “Fame” session with John Lennon and David Bowie
- John’s reaction to the Aerosmith cover of “Come Together”
- Working with George Martin in London
- Working on “Grow Old With Me” with Ringo
- The John Lennon demo tapes for Double Fantasy
- What was John hoping to accomplish with Double Fantasy
- Cheap Trick was originally considered as the backup band for John Lennon
- Earl Slick was the wildcard of the “Double Fantasy” sessions
- The end segment and dreamscape on “Watching the Wheels”
- John tells Jack why he selected him to produce “Double Fantasy”
- Ensuring Yoko’s tracks were more commercially viable than past works
- The secrecy around the “Double Fantasy” sessions
- What was John’s record collection like in The Dakota?
- John listened to rap, reggae and was curious about punk
- The New York Dolls recording sessions
- Connecting up with Aerosmith
- John was aware of Aerosmith
- The recording of “Double Fantasy”
- Making Quadraphonic mixes of Aerosmith and other artists
- Sequencing records for the constraints of vinyl
- John’s final session was the final mix of “Walking on Thin Ice”
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