The Who - Quadrophenia

Mike Hunte · Postby **Mike Hunte** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:40 am

What's the best version on CD?

Dob · Postby **Dob** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:03 pm

Steve Hoffman wrote:Pete was mad at Roger so the entire album is mixed with the least amount of Daltry vocals as possible.

If the story is true it seems a silly way to complete a project that must have taken forever to conceive and record.

Is there any truth to this??? I've never heard this before.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showt ... hp?t=54363

Postby **lukpac** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:23 pm

I've heard it, but I have no idea if it is true or not.

MK · Postby MK » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:40 pm

Check Dave Marsh's Who bio. Pete's confirmed this in interviews, too.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:06 pm

The remix does bring up the vocals considerably...

Ryan

Dob · Postby **Dob** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:25 am

MK wrote:Check Dave Marsh's Who bio. Pete's confirmed this in interviews, too.

Well, I've read "Before I Get Old," but it was a *long* time ago and I don't remember anything about Pete intentionally mixing Roger's vocals down low. I find it hard to believe that Pete would do anything but bust his ass and try and make the mix as good as he could make it.

I did some searching, and I found this bit, which seems to match what little I remember about DM's bio:

“When the album was completed, it took only a few days for Roger to express his disgust at the result,” Pete later wrote in Rolling Stone. "I had spent my summer vacation mixing it, and he had popped in once to hear mixes, making a couple of negative comments about the sound but seeming quite keen to let me ‘have my head,’ as it were, in production. Fundamentally, I had taken on too much, as always, and couldn’t handle the strain when things went wrong and people blamed me. I felt I was perfectly entitled to gamble and lose, as no one else seemed prepared to, either with Quadrophenia or even the Who’s career.

So, I felt angry at Roger for not realizing how much work I had done on the album - apart from writing it - and angry that he dismissed my production as garbage."

Dob · Postby **Dob** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:40 am

Rspaight wrote:The remix does bring up the vocals considerably...

FWIW, Daltrey hates the Entwistle remixes (for the soundtrack album) as well.

Goldmine: Did you like John Entwistle’s remix for the Quadrophenia soundtrack album?

Roger Daltrey: No, not at all. I hated it. Everything was totally out of balance. I think that’s even worse. I mean, it’s all just bass. It doesn’t work having a lead bass guitar. You just lose a lot of the guitar power. I think it needs a great mixer, someone like Matt Lange, to do it. I think you would be surprised if you knew what was on there.

http://www.thewho.net/articles/townshen/rogergol.htm

Since Roger was involved with the 1996 album remix, I'm assuming he likes that one best (and maybe Pete does too).