Out of the Main

Episode 20.11: How It’s Made

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Riffing off the popular Discovery Network show, “How It’s Made,” John and Tom take an “Inside Baseball” — er, Inside YACHT ROCK! — look at the tricks of the trade during the golden age of music production…ya know, before the computers made everything easy on us!

  • All sorts of fun little secrets, as revealed in Steve Lukather's book, “The Gospel According to Luke,” such as: How did they create the “drum loop” for Africa?
  • Reeling hundreds of feet of analogue tape around mic stands all over the control booth
  • Putting reel-to-reel tapes on an airplane to get the orchestra recorded
  • The incredible story of how 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” was made
  • More Steely Dan trade secrets
  • What was “flying in vocals?”
  • And more!

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    The Lightning Round:

    • Is it Yacht, or Is It Not?
    • Buried Treasures
    • Off the Map

      • References and Related:

      • The Making of 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love
      • Steve Lukather’s book, The Gospel According to Luke
      • Watch the VH1 “Classic Albums” documentary on Amazon
      • The making of “Peg” video on YouTube
      • Yacht or Nyacht? The Official Yachtski Scale
      • John’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist
      • Tom’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist
      • Playlist of songs featured on Out of the Main
      • Intro/outro music: “Fantasy World” by Page99

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