Producer Kevin Shirley - "Still Mixing Away On The Godfathers Of Heavy Metal"
April 13, 2008, 16 years ago
Producer/sound engineer Kevin Shirley (LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, AEROSMITH) has issued the following update regarding IRON MAIDEN's forthcoming tour documentary:
"Not much news - still mixing away on the Godfathers of Heavy Metal (IRON MAIDEN). The trouble with music choices being decided by video guys (we call them vidiots) is that the reason for the performance choice never has anything to do with the music - it's about camera shots, or "cool effects" or the location, rather than the music. So, if there's a bad night, either technically or musically - from intermittent radio microphones, to out of tune instruments, to raw vocals, or even a lapse in concentration (mostly from musicians staring down the well endowed bare-breasted Latina women in the front row, in this case), the job of mixing gets logarithmically more complex........ which is why I'm still mixing!"Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. (creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary Metal: Headbanger's Journey and its soon-to-be-released follow-up Global Metal) are currently editing hundreds of hours of live and behind-the-scenes footage for the film.
About the tour documentary expected to be released in late 2008/early 2009, Iron Maiden commented recently: "This will be such an incredible and exciting tour that we agreed with Scot and Sam's proposal to document this so if you see cameras following us around everywhere and around the stage you now know why!! A record of this is something that the band and myself would love to have and we are feel that many of you fans may feel hopefully feel the same - there has never been a tour quite like this before!"
