On Wednesday, April 7, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, rig...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Here are excerpts from the interview in "Beatlefan" with producer Jack
> Douglas.
> Read it and weep, Yoko defenders and brown noses.
> Lennon's Last Sessions
> Producer Jack Douglas on Recording 'Double Fantasy.'
> When John Lennon and Yoko Ono decided to return to the recording studio in
> 1980, they enlisted an old cohort to produce the sessions. In this revealing
> conversation, he tells Ken Sharp what it was like ....
> Producer-engineer Jack Douglas was known primarily for his work with
> Aerosmith and Cheap Trick before he got a mysterious phone call in 1980 that
> launched him into John Lennon's 'comeback' recording sessions - also his
> final sessions, as it turned out. Contributing Editor Ken Sharp talked with
> Douglas recently about those sessions and Lennon's work with Cheap Trick- one
> track of which is included in the new 'John Lennon Anthology' box set ...
> Q: I want to get into the Lennon "Double Fantasy" sessions, but I didn't
> realize that you'd worked with John prior to that on, was it, the "Imagine"
> album or the song "Imagine"?
> A: The "Imagine" album.
> Q: You engineered some of that?
> A: Yeah. Well, I was second engineer. Roy Cicala was first engineer but
> that was where I met John.
> Q: What was that like working with John back then?
> A: It was amazing and it's so weird because we got to be friends. I was
> working in one studio; I was doing editing while he was tracking in another
> room and doing vocals. I mean, there was no way I was allowed to do vocals
> with him. I was way too young but he came in and I was putting stuff
> together and editing and he said to me "How ya doing?" You know, I'd met him
> earlier in the day but this was the first day and I said "OK, OK.' I wanted
> to be nervous but like I said, he wouldn't let you be. And he lit up a smoke
> and I said to him "I've been to Liverpool" and he looked at me and said "why
> the hell would you have been to Liverpool?" and I said well, you want to
> hear this story?
> Q: Is this the one on the boat? [As a young musician, Douglas and a friend
> stowed away on a boat In order to get to Liverpool, only to be caught and
> written up in British newspapers.]
> A:Yeah. I told him that story. And he, like, cracked up, he was cracking up
> 'cause they'd read the papers about these idiots who were held captive on
> this boat ... after that, he said "What are you doing?" I said, "Well, after
> this?" He goes, "Yeah". I said "Nothing." He goes, "You can come with me.'
> So we went out, you know, and he took me to a party and he was like - see, I
> told him I was born and raised in New York, and he would say to me, "See that
> guy over there?" "Yeah" and if I knew him, he'd say, "Well, who is he? What
> is he?" I'd say, "Well ... that guy's an asshole. Don't even go near him.
> He'll fuck and suck your blood." "Thanks, man." It was like one of those kind
> of things.

I wonder who they were talking about.