Episode 141–Geoff Downes talks about Heaven and Earth - a podcast by Kevin Mulryne

Geoff Downes, 2014

The one hundred and forty-first episode of the Yes Music Podcast, featuring an interview with Geoff Downes where we talk about the forthcoming album, Heaven and Earth.What was it like to work with Jon Davison and Roy Thomas Baker?
Are you pleased with the album?Are the 80s-inspired keyboards sounds on the album deliberate?

Listen to the fascinating interview and then let me know what you think via any of the methods below.RT @slangofages: @YesMusicPodcast @asiageoff Excellent podcast featuring the great Geoff Downes
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TranscriptKM- Creating the new studio album, Heaven and Earth, seemed to be quite a complicated process with Yes alumnus, Billy Sherwood, on mixing duties after Roy Thomas Baker did the production. Are you happy with the results?

GD- Yeah I think so. I think that any album you do you come away from you really don't know what to make of it and certainly this one was no exception, really. I think I see it as an interesting album in respect of the fact that it's obviously the first one that Jon Davison has done and I think in many ways we kind of let him run with the ball on it and we all collaborated with him separately and then we just started to put it all together so it's an interesting process, certainly.

KM- I saw the Birmingham gig you did on 4th May which was fantastic. It was the most enjoyable concert I think I've ever attended - it was really, really brilliant. How much difference does knowing each other live make when you go into the studio?

GD- I think it's a different process. I think that live - you've got that one thing on your mind for that particular day and the gig for that particular night is the all important thing that you actually have to address yourself towards but, in terms of an album, it's very much a case of experimentation and seeing what works and who comes up with the ideas and the live situation is very much a case of making it the best you can knowing the elements you are dealing with.

KM- So when you got into the studio what was it like working with Roy Thomas Baker?GD- It was really good. I really got on with him very well. I saw a lot of the guy who produced the first two Asia albums, Mike Stone, [who]was his [RTB's] engineer for quite a few years, certainly all through the Queen period. So there were a lot of influences I could see that had affected Mike when he had been working with him [RTB]- some of the ways he recorded vocals, certain methodology of the actual recording pro...

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