Behind The Recording of 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'-Elton John
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Elton John’s 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick’ road is standout classic made in the most prolific period of his career. It helped propel him to superstardom as he thrilled audiences around the world with his elaborate and flamboyant stage performances!
This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.
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put this album on now, 51 years later, and it still sounds fantastic
captain fantastic???
I was thirteen. Whenever I hear the title song, and John Lennon's _Mind Games,_ I'm instantly transported back to that amazing, incredible year.
I was 10 years old in 1974 when we bought Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I would put on earphones and recline in the Family Room and crank the hell out of it. Great memories. Excellent album.
You had headphones? You lucky bastard!
I love the whole album and brought it as a 16 year-old.....for me the standout amongst all this brilliant songs is.. I've seen that Movie too.... everything... everything..is spot on, the tune,the lyrics,the band,the orchestra, Davey's guitar solo and Elton's vocals......a masterclass of writing and recording... brilliant... absolutely.. brilliant.
The old gear is just so much sexier than today's and it's limitations kept things focused.
Very true, limitation can really help for focus. It can be a good exercise to limit yourself if you want to get things done.
one of my absolute FAVORITE albums.
Funeral for a Friend/love Lies Bleeding is one heck of a bold start to any album.
Best rock instrumental EVER leading into one of Elton/Bernie’s all time best
My first concert was Elton John in 1974 or ‘75 at the Boston Garden. I was around 15. The Yellow Brick Road opening tracks sounded super huge live. I’ll never forget that experience.
Bought the album when it first came out. Later, when CD players were invented, this was the first CD I bought (there were only about a couple dozen to choose from at the time). First time listening to Funeral For A Friend on CD with headphones was mind-blowing
'I've Seen That Movie, Too' is one of the greatest tracks ever!
I have a deep connection with the song.
As a kid, I would listen to my uncle's record collection and 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' was and remains a personal favorite.
First album I ever bought as a kid turned out to be an all-time classic.
Me too
Great video. GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD remains an incredible classic album. Not only are there several hit singles but countless great album tracks like "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and "The Ballad of Danny Bailey" and "All The Young Girls Love Alice" and "I've Seen That Movie Too" and "Harmony." Elton, Bernie, Dee, Nigel, and Davey plus Gus Dudgeon were so on top of their game. You don't see actual performances like these very often any more on record.
I was 18 at the time - it got a lot of airplay at the apartment I shared with a couple of bandmates and our girlfriends. One thing that we picked up on and often brought into our own stuff was (more or less) 'doubling guitar and piano lines, especially good for impact when playing songs live . . . thanks Davey Johnstone & Elton for that idea! What a classic album!
Don’t ever stop making these. I beg of you
Thank you! Might have the odd break here and there but I’ll definitely keep going!
Ditto! They are one of the highlights of my week!
@@mixingmasteringonline Ditto! They are one of the highlights of my week!
@@paulwright6121 Thank you! 🙂
Yes…one of my favourite channels. Keep em coming!
My first alum when I was 16. I got it for Christmas. Everything else was measured to this.
David Hentschel - super producer!
Folks in are 60s this album was so much a part of growing up. It was and still is the memories of my youth
Great video, thank you so much for sharing. Would love to hear more about the recording of other Elton albums.
Thank you, I’ll be looking into it.
Listen to that snare sound! This is one of those rare albums (double albums even rarer) with no filler songs. Great content! Liked and subscribed.
Thank you!
I just started high school when it came out, and I loved it. It's in my top 3 Elton albuns, along with Honky Chateau and Blue Moves.
I went to college in the late 70's to learn audio engineering. By the time I had graduated digital had started. I remember the first time I saw a two track Sony using 1/2 inch video tape for final mix. I think it was Dallas Sound Lab...
I produced and engineered two albums for my band of the time using the same techniques I had learned from these wonderful albums.
I was fortunate enough to still have them!
Thank you!
I think the Sony PCM-3402 DASH was the 2 track machine and used 1/4 inch tape the Sony PCM-3324 DASH was the 24 track and used 1/2 inch tape.
HOF album. I still listen to it today in it's entirety
I really enjoy these videos. Cool to hear about the album and the recording process. The videos are really well made. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your kind words, they’re really appreciated! 😃
Awesome video! 👍
I listened to this album on my RadioShack headphones many times. We had an orange sofa and orange speckled carpet in the basement rec room. 😂
Very cool 70’s vibes going on there!
"In a little room, downstairs"
Thanks MMO! Elton had a great band at the time. Nice touch pointing out who was who, with your highlights. Too bad they didn't send one of their engineers to scout ahead in Jamaica, before carting all their guys and gear down there for nothing. How did we live without cell phones and internet? Rock on!
Thank you! Absolutely, very different times with modern tech. does sound like quite an adventure though.
"... Learning the songs as Elton wrote them and recording a final version in two or three takes." There is not one note of bullshit on this whole record over all four sides. Truly one of the greatest masterpieces of the last hundred years. I'm not gonna name names and I don't want to sound like somebody's grandfather screaming at the kids from the neighborhood to get off their lawn, but while performing at this level was something urgent and common during this era, you'd be hard-pressed to win an argument that popular music created today is done with the same level of dedication and intention as the songwriting and execution documented here. When I do find it, it's usually through Bandcamp far and away from the red carpets and Grammys, completely lacking a complementary music video and loads of cheap mugging and thrills for the camera. I will also add this: Davy Johnston's backwards guitar solo on "I've Seen That Movie Too" is right up there with the backwards guitar effect on Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?".
I'm a home recording guy who enjoyed your video immensely! 👍
Thank you! 😃
That is really well done, w great detail abt the gear and techniques used!!
The piano was, even then, a pretty old Steinway parlour grand dating from the late 19th/early 20th century - and had a very dynamic and resonant tone.
its hereeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!! I really appreciate you taking this request . great in depth vid per usual my guy
Thank you! And thanks for the request, I really enjoyed doing it 😃
Fantastic! Subscribed:)
Thank you!
When talking about Elton's contract requiring two albums a year at one point 8:37 often time artists were not penalized for releasing a double album. These would usually count for two under most contracts, and is often why the record companies didn't like them. They preferred single albums because they felt that separate releases were more profitable
Interesting narrative- very different memory of the album sessions compared to that shared on the Classic Albums series.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the pinnacle of Elton John's catalog, in my opinion anyway. Other albums were great, but nothing compares to GYBR.
Another great video 🤙 love these
Thank you! 😃
It's a great sounding album. With a lot of great classic songs. TOo bad radio doesn't play as many songs off of it as should be played.
Awesome work man 👏 Keep it up
Thank you 🙌
PLEASE do London Calling!!
It’s on the list 👍
Elton John's finest album and finest hour, with an amazing band that he later dumped. At least the Jamaican experience was neatly summarised in the song title "Jamaica Jerk-Off".
Château d’Hérouville...the same studio the Bee Gees recorded the "Saturday Night Fever" tracks.
The song Harmony was never released as a single. 😊
Elton was a master at doing themes for his albums. Each has a terrific feel and vibe. Although I love them all, my favorite is and will always be Tumbleweed Connection. The picture that he painted was phenomenal. Here’s my favorite from that album: th-cam.com/video/wb2B966IOfM/w-d-xo.html
It was a hard choice between it and Indian Sunset from the Madman album.
cant click fast enough!!!!
Resumiu tudo em um video o que eu queria saber a anos
The best this great album ever sounded was on the SuperDisk (spelled with a K, not Nautilus) vinyl reissue in the late 1970's nothing sounds this good.
Yep
The bass on that album seems to have a bit of overdrive on some tunes.. I wonder how Dee was able to get those sounds… maybe he buried the volume on the B-15 ?? Great video.. thank you.
Thank you!
I didn't (and still don't) care much for the double-tracked drum parts and I thought (and still think) that DJ's overdriven guitar sound is really harsh and unpleasant. Needs a remix with the 3-5Khz reduced by about 5dB! Brilliant bunch of songs though, and the band, vocal, orchestral and synth arrangements were on point. What a band!
Agree on the guitar sound! Glad someone else agrees.
This is what I think of when someone says Elton John….
Might have been a good idea to actually scout the studio before commiting to recording there? Um..
The thought was that if it was good enough for the Stones, it was good enough for them.
Bernie Toe Pin ? lol
The background music makes it impossible to listen to the words.😢
I’m sorry about that, thanks for the feedback though.
Funeral for a friend...song for the real Paul Macca.
take a break while you are talking
my god makes you nerves
I never knew that's why I didn't like the sound of those Elton John albums. Recorded on a MCI 416? Oh my God? What a piece of crap! That's one of the worst sounding consoles ever made. What an integrated circuit piece of shit that was. Never offered with more than 16 inputs. Right when 24 track came out. What a bunch of morons! I lived 600 feet away from their factory. And I did not purchase their audio console from my studio. I wanted something much better. I wanted an API from New York.. Not that piece of crap from, 600 feet away from where I lived. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I was only 2 miles from the beach. The place I work. Was only 3 blocks. So I frequently went there for lunch. On Fort Lauderdale, beach it was a tough job. Somebody, had to do it. What was it? A big multimillion dollar advertising agency. I was in charge of all the audio and video production. I had it, good. And having lunch at Fort Lauderdale Beach. Every couple days. Otherwise it was at the bar at the shopping center at the corner. Also a lot of fun. 2 blocks less to walk. When I got lazy.
Those were the good old days. I miss those. They were a lot of fun. When we were young. And vibrant.
RemyRAD
Now I understand why The Rolling Stones’ “Goats Head SoupL album sounds so shitty. And Elton didn’t pay attention to the sound quality of those recordings ? He must have been stoned.
Haha, probably!
Great album, have a number of versions of it including the Nautilus Half Speed master and the SACD, and in my opinion, it's a fairly mediocre mastering job. Great songs, not that great sounding, very strident and thin, muted low frequency and hollow stereo image. I've found this to universal on all 5 of my versions.
Whatever led them to believe they could record in a third world country??
Did you not watch the part where it said that the Rolling Stones had successfully recorded there?
This album was the last album Elton made that was decent. Brown dirt cowboy was awful. His unique sound went beyond pop and too wimpy.
Sorry, his music simply sucks, i just want to go to the grocers and not hear "tiny dancer", a little Elton goes a long way, none at all sounds just right
Why Does he keep saying Elton wrote songs... HE WAS NEVER A GOOD SONG WRITER...thats why Burny Wrote the songs Elton just came up with piano parts for them.. Elton only ever wrote songs for his 1st album and it Bombed Harder then John Carter of Mars... that least John Carter or Mars on looking back just was marketed wrong cause it was the Book that started Sci Fi and Gave Us STARWARS... Elton Johns 1st Record to this day is still Crap if it wasn't for Burny Toppin Elton John would just be a Old Fruit Selling Suits on the Rides Road in London.
you know songs have lyrics but they also have, like, music? and it takes effort to write the music - the chords and melodies and all?
“Elton *just* came up with piano parts” 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Omg man… Just don’t bother commenting about things you don’t know about. Bernie basically wrote poems. Elton made them into the songs that you know them as.
idk who you replyin to so either boo or yay. elton and bernie were an epic team. elton's words would've sucked without taupin, and bernie's music would have been flavourless without elton johns music
they were both important to both of their modern legacy as musicians and poets tho
@@Walter-fw8cc I was replying to the first guy’s comment who said Elton John sucks at writing songs.
Nice job✌️
Thank you!