Voice-over Intro Rod Temperton Interview/Rod Temperton Interview (口白)-Michael Jackson

[ti:Rod Temperton Interview (口白)] [ar:Michael Jackson] [al:Off the Wall (疯狂)] [by:krc转qrc工具] [offset:0] [00:00.41]Michael Jackson - Rod Temperton Interview (口白) [00:00.39]Songwriter Rod Temperton reflects [00:02.62]on his first experience with writing [00:04.08]for Michael. [00:04.89]Well, back in 1979, I was working in [00:08.88]New York on an album for Heatwave [00:13.41]with Phil Ramone. [00:15.42]And one night, Quincy called the studio [00:18.93]and asked me if I could write sth. for [00:23.07]Michael Jackson. He was gonna do [00:24.93]Michael's first solo album. [00:27.07]So I said," okay, I will do my best to do [00:29.86]one song." [00:30.39]Cuz we were working in the studio from [00:32.76]10 in the morning till it's 3 or 4 the following morning. [00:35.48]So in the end I wrote 3 songs in order for [00:43.44]Michael and Quincy to choose one song [00:47.06]to become the album. [00:48.58]And they booked the studio in Los Angeles [00:51.38]at the weekends when I wasn't working. [00:53.79]And I flew in over the weekends to [00:55.96]cut the tracks. [00:57.37]At that point, I still haven't met Michael, Michael wouldn't come to the studio then. [01:03.10]And the following week I came back [01:04.96]again, the following weekend, [01:06.90]to do the vocals with Michael. [01:09.21]We did all the backgrounds and all [01:11.48]three tracks on the Saturday afternoon. [01:14.89]And then on the Sunday afternoon, we did all the 3 lead vocal tracks. [01:18.88]And Michael was amazing because he stayed up for whole of that Saturday night [01:23.57]to learn the lyrics off so that he wouldn't [01:27.78]have to read them off the paper. [01:29.97]It's kinda interesting I do remember the [01:31.93]very first session for Off the Wall that I [01:35.56]did this was on the Saturday that they [01:38.01]flew me in from New York, [01:40.55]On this Saturday afternoon, and Quincy [01:42.82]had said to me on the phone a couple [01:44.52]of days before, asked me what kind of musicians [01:47.41]I needed to record the tracks. [01:49.94]So, I said," well, two guitar players, a keyboard player, and drums, bass." [01:55.04]And I arrived that afternoon, came from [01:59.99]the airport directly to the studio. [02:03.14]Quincy met me at the door, basically, took me in the main studio room where all the [02:09.26]musicians were getting ready to play. [02:12.60]and said, "here is Rod hit-it." [02:16.43]And now, this was really my first session [02:20.02]outside my own bound. [02:22.74]Because I'dn't you know been playing [02:25.46]music and been in Heatwave for 3 or 4 [02:29.10]years, and so, it's very used to that kind of [02:32.13]situation dealing with picked-up musicians [02:35.21]in the studio making those albums maybe, [02:38.06]but not with the situation where I was you know just [02:40.63]walking and called, meeting a whole bunch [02:43.47]of people I never knew, although they are [02:46.46]very famous names in the business. [02:49.38]And that, you know, I particularly remember [02:51.96]when, the first term day to that album, [02:55.83]Jerry Hey came in with all the [02:57.82]home players and I felt really inadequate [03:01.13]you know working in with my little notes of what I wanted them to do. and.. [03:06.93]But it was one of those things where, [03:09.95]you were in a situation where the, [03:12.27]you put in the rheme there, everybody [03:13.65]was looking at you and it's sign that "you say something or get out of that." [03:20.36]Fortunately, I **my mouth and said something, so,well, you know, [03:23.32]we worked out nicely and we came away with the next exciting album. [03:28.71]And I said to Quincy at the end of [03:30.53]the session which song do you choose [03:32.41]for, do you want for the record. [03:34.62]He said he wanted all three. [03:37.56]What was you the title track Off the Wall, [03:40.92]a song called Burn this Disco Out ? [03:43.85]I knew that I could tell from Michael that [03:47.17]his, the melodies he would sing on [03:50.66]atempo songs, it was very [03:52.89]rhythmically driven. [03:55.06]And so I tried to write melodies that's [03:59.65]with short notes, and had a lot of short [04:04.34]notes to give him some staccato rhythmic [04:06.91]things he could do. [04:08.64]I think the Off the Wall the title song gives you the best example of that "~~"you know [04:17.01]that kind of melody rather than [04:19.45]really long note, long line melodies. [04:23.39]And the other thing I knew from [04:26.83]his previous records is that he loved [04:28.78]harmony work. [04:31.23]and you know, that's really the sight of me [04:35.16]that I would have brought from Heatwave [04:37.53]because Heatwave was very harmonically [04:39.90]driving group and so I kinda mixed [04:44.11]the harmony segments of my music [04:49.30]with this new idea of the short notes [04:52.26]melodies for Michael, and came out [04:54.50]with the Off the Wall and [04:55.77]Burn This Disco Out.