I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Arthur Adamov, Playwright (1908) |
George Matthew Adams, Editor (1878) |
Scott Caan, Actor (1976) |
Julian Casablancas, Musician (1978) |
Rhonda Cator, Athlete (1966) |
Nelson DeMille, Author (1943) |
Barbara Eden, Actress (1934) |
Clifford Geertz, Scientist (1926) |
Carl Hagelin, Athlete (1988) |
Gene Kelly, Actor (1912) |
Hoot Gibson, Actor (1962) |
Oscar Hammerstein, Writer (1960) |
Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician (1960) |
R. D. Laing, Psychologist (1989) |