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Tony Visconti (33)

Birth:	24th April, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Record Producer, Singer

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• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

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  Tags in Trend, Profitable, Milking, Company

• But some great records are are being made with today’s technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn’t have emerged when recording was more organic.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Recording, Reliant, Artist

• I am not a creature of habit.

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 – 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

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  Tags in Instance, Logic

• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

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  Tags in Scholar, Awarded, Brilliant

• It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

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• Now I know what it’s like to be a rock star. No, I didn’t sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

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  Tags in Rock Star, Sleep

• I make records with an open mind, I always have.

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  Tags in Open Mind, Records

• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

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  Tags in Lessons, Ukulele, Fiddle

• Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

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  Tags in Oh, Paris, Favorite

• I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

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• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father’s guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

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  Topics in Christmas

  Tags in Bought, Thereafter, Guidance, Taught

• No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Professional, Enormous, Leap

• I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

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  Tags in Never Forget, Write, Heartbeat

• My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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  Tags in Quick, Spike

• Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

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  Topics in Computer

• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I’m so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

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  Topics in Christmas

  Tags in Harmonica

• Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer’s job.

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  Tags in Producer, Charge, Director, Session, Technician

• Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I’d rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

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  Tags in Rocker, Roll, Responsible, Excesses

• Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

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  Tags in Martial, Martial Arts