Re: kate Backing Vocals

[Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>]

Len Bullard wrote:
> 
> > From: Bob Haberkost <Bob-RavenswoodEngrg@worldnet.att.net>
> 
> >I was wondering if the group knew of one somewhat
> >more obscure perfomer in which Kate (perhaps surprisingly) appears.
> 
> >The performer - Midge Ure.  The cut - Brother and Sister
> 
> Yes.  Know and have.  Midge Ure said in an interview about
> the piece that Kate and Del came to cut the vocal and
> let no one in the studio while doing it.  That's a more
> common practice than one might suspect as cutting vocals
> requires a lot of concentration and usually eye contact
> between the engineer and vocalist.  It is also handy to
> be able to see the meters.  Midge Ure referred to her
> as a "near genius" and was complementary of her in
> general.  Most of the article talked about the Atari
> and German-made 24-track sequencer software.
> Old stuff now but we still use one.
> 
> len

	I thought I remember a quote from Midge Ure somewhere 
about Kate sending him the track, and him being amazed that 
it was already fully layered. I got the impression he hadn't 
even met her by the time it (almost) became a single.

Robb