Legendary Columbia staff producer to Dylan, Cohen, Cash, Simon & Garfunkel, Moby Grape etc.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2015-08-15/bob-johnston-1932-2015/
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 August 2015 09:46 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg/di_01912.jpg
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 August 2015 09:48 (eight years ago) link
RIP
that picture is so cool
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 16 August 2015 10:16 (eight years ago) link
― Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 August 2015 11:04 (eight years ago) link
Moldy Goldies: Colonel Jubilation B. Johnston and His Mystic Knights Band and Street Singers Attack the Hits was one of the first half-dozen Holy-Grail albums I went looking for when I got onto Soulseek in 2003. I've still never seen a physical copy.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8881/18184014105_40bcbd0564_n.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 August 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
(he produced Highway 61 Revisited. Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, and New Morning)
yeah, we all knew this already, but daaaaaaamn, that's a hell of a thing to have in one's obit
― Brad C., Sunday, 16 August 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
Jamming blonde on blonde this morning in his honor. Best record.
― tylerw, Sunday, 16 August 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
I love his segments in No Direction Home, where he talks about recording Blonde on Blonde. "We took down all the fuckin' clocks! We didn't have a clock! Dylan just did whatever the fuck he wanted!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 16 August 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
Read that story recently somewhere else but unfortunately can't recall exactly where that was.
― Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 August 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may10/articles/classictracks_0510.htm
― Eternal Return To Earth (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 August 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
http://www.goldminemag.com/features/dylan-producer-bob-johnston-recalls-lifetime-of-musical-memories
Some good stories in this 2011 article
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 August 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link