Re: Robert a perfectionist

[Steve Thomson <zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree on the WiC vocals. A couple of those tracks are downright painful to 
listen to for the vocals, never mind anything else. Some of them sound like 
they were recorded the morning after he finished a three-day bender (what a 
drinking binge was called where I grew up). 

However, any perfectionism Plant may exhibit now is in contrast to his Zeppelin 
days. I recall reading interviews in a recording magazine around the time of 
The Principle of Moments in which he mentioned being new to paying attention to 
details in the recording of vocals and things like adding a "halo to vocals" 
(as he called it), etc. He said that he left all that to Jimmy in Zeppelin and 
spent his time posing or preening.

I believe the reputation for perfectionism was more from ex-musicians in his 
solo groups. IIRC, a couple of them have said he was very demanding.

--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Robert a perfectionist
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> Received: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 11:13 AM
> "If Robert's not in the band, they should be able
> to get the job done quicker without him as he's a
> perfectionist."
> 
> If Robert were a perfectionist his vocals would have been
> better than demo quality on WiC.