Thread: Lee Holdridge
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Old 03-03-2014, 04:27 PM   #18
charlene
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Default Re: Lee Holdridge

Richard Harison answered my question "any insight?"(Lightfoot concert sound engineer)

"Lee has an impressive resume, but was he not confined to Gord's Gold?
I remember Nick de Caro a lot better as the mainstay string arranger.

All sweetening of an album was done post-production, and, while I was at all recording sessions, nobody except Gordon really got involved with post.

I do remember at one of the "gambling gigs" (i.e. Tahoe, Reno, or Vegas) that there was a string section, and I believe de Caro was conducting.
It never happened, though. Gord felt somewhat restricted by the lack of tempo variants he was used to.
The best way to explain that is to suggest you think of the different tempo variances in CRT -- speeding up--slowing down, etc.
Gordon was probably anxious that there would be a slight lack of sync between him and the section.
(The regular band members were used to all that.)"
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