"05-12-2010, 04:52 PM
What's with the ad-libbed windscreens? (See the Jobim mic with what appears to be a sock over the mic, a few posts back.) There's a doozy (the 10th picture down) on this page:
http://www.corbisimages.com/Search#p=1&s=50&sort=0&q=sinatra%2C%20frank
Here's some backstory from Phill Sawyer, the guy at United who placed that on the microphone (from page 24 of the Vegas box set book):
"I opened the special memorial edition of Newsweek magazine, and I was horrified. I had put a microphone in front of his face many times, but here was Frank Sinatra -- in color and full-page, facing a microphone with a big, ugly, messy wad of masking tape scrunched around it -- put there by me in layer after layer, trying to keep a great microphone in service at one of the busiest recording studios in Hollywood. Engineer Eddie Bracket had warned me, 'It'll never stay on.' Eddie was wrong. It'll be there forever. "
MLutthans05-12-2010, 04:54 PM
Here's some backstory from Phill Sawyer, the guy at United who placed that on the microphone (from page 24 of the Vegas box set book):
That is a GREAT story! I've wondered about that (sorry for the language) butt-ugly windscreen for years!
By the way, Phill and I have swapped a couple of e-mails, and he seems like a great guy.
Matt"
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