Ep440: Jack Douglas - Producer Part 2
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jack Douglas shares memories of the production and recording of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy", John Lennon's last day and memorial, unheard studio recordings, the 2010 'Stripped Back' version, Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan" and more.
- John Lennon's records
- Bringing in Cheap Trick for Double Fantasy
- Rick Nielsen gifts John Lennon a guitar
- John Lennon wanted to redo "Strawberry Fields Forever"
- Were there any elements of Double Fantasy John or Yoko wanted to redo?
- Making "Walking on Thin Ice"
- John Lennon's last day
- John wanted to create a musical platform for Yoko
- Recording the orgasm for "Kiss Kiss Kiss"
- The plans for a John Lennon / Yoko Ono World Tour
- The album name "Double Fantasy"
- The two "Beautiful Boy(s)" songs
- Records and video from the "Double Fantasy" sessions
- The recording of John's final day was destroyed
- The private memorial with John's studio tapes
- Yoko distanced herself from Jack
- The "Double Fantasy" royalty lawsuit
- The 2010 "Double Fantasy" stripped back version
- Revisiting the Record Plant for transferring "Double Fantasy" tapes
- Jack's thought watching John on "Get Back" series
- John was constantly drawing, making art
- Discovering Cheap Trick, early albums
- Making "Live at Budokan" – using Osaka tapes
- The overdub for "Live at Budokan"
- Making Aerosmith's "Live Bootleg" album
- The Record Plant radio station for mixdowns
Jack produced Silverplanes' LP "Airbus", enjoy it here!
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| 0:22.6 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to episode 440 of the Vinyl Guide, and this is part two of our two-part |
| 0:34.3 | conversation with music producer Jack Douglas. |
| 0:38.0 | Now, it may help to listen to Part 1 first. |
| 0:41.1 | That's Episode 439. |
| 0:42.8 | But regardless, today, we are jumping deep into the production and recording of the John |
| 0:48.7 | Lennon and Yoko Ono album Double Fantasy, some of which we started in episode 439, including some of Jack's |
| 0:56.6 | recollections about working with John Lennon and David Bowie during the fame recording |
| 1:01.1 | session, what the demo tapes were like for double fantasy going into it, what John was |
| 1:06.2 | hoping to accomplish with double fantasy, some of the secrecy around the sessions, what John's record |
| 1:12.0 | collection in the Dakota was like, and lots more. So that's in episode 439. Today, we cover some |
| 1:18.9 | fascinating topics, including John Lennon's collaboration with Cheap Trick, the recording highlights |
| 1:23.9 | of double fantasy, we walk through what John's last day was like, the private memorial |
| 1:29.4 | for John, producing the 2010 stripped back version of double fantasy, and we even talk more about |
| 1:35.6 | Cheap Trick Live at Boudicon, Aerosmith, Double I Bootleg, and more. And if you want some new music |
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