![]() Jim Vallance is now best known for his songwriting collaborations with Bryan Adams, yet together he and Fairbairn produced the first Prism album, which was a hit in Canada. A deal was signed, and Sunshyne metamorphosed into Prism. Bruce Fairbairn went off to get a degree in Urban Planning at the University of British Columbia, the demo tape arrived in the hands of an LA producer, and when said producer contacted Fairbairn and told him that he liked what he had heard, Fairbairn pretended that the band was still together. Later there were spells with groups such as the Spectres and Sunshyne, and just before Sunshyne split up they recorded a demo of drummer Jim Vallance's compositions. I think that's musical fraud, so I stay well away from it." Rootsīorn and raised in Canada, Fairbairn began playing the trumpet at the age of five, before making his pro debut with a high‑school band at a local church. ![]() I really have a problem with records where the end result doesn't represent either the human performance of the artist or any ability on the part of the artist to actually perform that song. For me that's all part and parcel of giving the consumer a product that is true. "That's how I learned to play, and so that's why I'm really not that interested in working with bands that don't - or can't - perform live. "I think that reflects my experience over the years, being part of a band," he explains. "Being a musician myself, I have a good ear for songs, for arrangements and for music," he says, " so I try to bring all of that to a project, providing songwriters and musicians with a sounding‑board on which to base their material and their performances."įairbairn's ability to inspire and draw the very best performances out of artists is another major plus. Richard Buskin finds out how he did it.īruce Fairbairn's track record includes artists such as Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Poison, the Scorpions, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen and Chicago as a producer, he derives much of his in‑studio enjoyment from the process of capturing not only the sound but also the natural energy of a live band performance on tape. The really unfortunate thing is, it sounds like they were trying this time around.Musician and producer Bruce Fairbairn is best known for his US rock smash successes with Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, but blended live band recording and a willingness to use studio techsnology to record the latest INXS album, Elegantly Wasted. Throughout Elegantly Wasted, INXS go through the motions, coming up with a record nearly as weak as Full Moon, Dirty Hearts. The band does dabble in contemporary dance on Elegantly Wasted, but it all comes out sounding like the lite funk-n-roll of Kick, only without the energy. On the heels of U2's discovery of irony and the dancefloor and Oasis' popularization of rock & roll hedonism again, INXS seemed to be better suited to the late '90s, but Elegantly Wasted, their first new studio album in four years, proves that theory wrong. ![]() INXS stumbled greatly in the early '90s, since their slick, professional fusion of disco and the Stones was singularly out of place in the grunge era. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. ![]()
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