From Apple.com’s “Top Stories” feed Sept. 5, 2008.
In his exclusive interview with MusicRadar, Noel Gallagher reveals that “following the ‘four and a half year’ struggle to record Don’t Believe the Truth,” Gallagher and his Oasis bandmates “ditched his elaborate home studio” and took up GarageBand. Using GarageBand, Gallagher says, “we actually do our demos now in Gem’s bedroom” or on the band’s tour bus.
But it’s not that the band threw out their studio equipment in favor of the simplicity and quality of Garage Band.
If you actually go into and listen to the audio, Joe Bosso of music Radar interviews Gallagher about the bands demo process. Gallagher laments about the demos recorded with his home studio equipment. They were apparently too good and interfered with the process of moving from demo to record.
“Now we do real scratchy low-fi shitty demos, knowing that there’s no way we can do worse than that in the studio.” (about 5 minutes into the audio)
There you have it folks: “Garage Band, There’s no other way we could make it shittier for the studio.”
Using Garage Band was an effort to tone done the quality of the demos.
I don’t know much about studio recording. I would think that one could put together a fairly decent demo with Garageband. But I don’t think this is the kind of image Apple wanted to portray about their consumer audio product.
Also I hear nothing about a tour bus the Apple blurb mentions. I find it hard to believe this little blurb was worth the tarnish it might lend the product or the company.
Living Critic 