Members John Sayers Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 Steve Wonder had a studio on permanent lockout for a whole year to make Songs in the key of life, it's not unusual at that level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 It may have been more economical to do it that way. If you are going to the studio every day and have a big project, it is easier to leave things set up rather than setting up and tearing down every day. Sometimes it take hours to just to get a single microphone in the right place with the right gain and right eq.Dan I definitely see the logic in this, although I can't help but wonder if it'd be cheaper to set up shop in a large house instead. But who knows. We're discussing exorbitant budgets and (probably) fussy artists here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 at $1000/day that's only $365,000 for a year lockout Chicken feed to Michael or Stevie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 at $1000/day that's only $365,000 for a year lockout Chicken feed to Michael or Stevie. To MJ in his heyday, but probably not Stevie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 To MJ in his heyday, but probably not Stevie. Dude...do you realize how many albums Stevie sold in the sixties and especially the seventies?Just prior to his recording Songs in the Key of Life, he had signed a $37 million deal with Motown...$37 million in 1975 is worth almost $150 million in 2009 money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 Dude...do you realize how many albums Stevie sold in the sixties and especially the seventies?Just prior to his recording Songs in the Key of Life, he had signed a $37 million deal with Motown...$37 million in 1975 is worth almost $150 million in 2009 money.But Dude; MJ was making 1989 money! A $37 million dollar deal doesn't mean you get a check for 37 million. Its over time and it includes options. I don't know for sure, but I would bet that Stevie never had an album budget near the 750 thousand MJ had for Thriller. And the budget for Bad was probably even higher. Stevie was with Motown after all. I don't think that anyone other than the collected catalog of the Beatles made the kind of money that MJ did in his heyday. Certainly not Stevie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted June 30, 2009 Members Share Posted June 30, 2009 But Dude; MJ was making 1989 money! A $37 million dollar deal doesn't mean you get a check for 37 million. Its over time and it includes options. I don't know for sure, but I would bet that Stevie never had an album budget near the 750 thousand MJ had for Thriller. And the budget for Bad was probably even higher. Stevie was with Motown after all.I don't think that anyone other than the collected catalog of the Beatles made the kind of money that MJ did in his heyday. Certainly not Stevie. That wasn't my point...I'm not attempting to quantify their total worth... the point is that Stevie could easily afford to block as much studio time as he wished, at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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