Re: Anybody watch Transatlantic sessions?
Originally Posted by
Rob Gerety
At first I was taken by these sessions. But as time has gone on it all seems a bit too refined, perhaps a bit pretentious. They ought to ditch the library atmosphere and go with more of a pub motif. The music is nice though.
I don't know, I always thought that the concept of locking a bunch of musicians up in a big old house in Scotland and then recording them was kind of cool, and it gets around a lot of the problems of trying to record in a pub. Being in the house seems to give them a bit more freedom.
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