#ThrowbackThursday : Editing in Popular Music
An interesting bit of recording industry foreshadowing, discovered in a thrift store by our own Carl Jacobson!
This pic is snapped from the back of 1963’s “Dave Brubeck Live at Carnegie Hall.” Tape splicing to edit a performance may seem downright quaint by today’s standards, but this raises a great discussion.
What would Teo Macero say about today’s editing practices in music?
And when it comes to editing a performance, where do you draw the line—if at all? What will you NOT do?