Mad Dog with Soul : L'histoire de Joe Cocker | movie | 2017 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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La vie mouvementée du chanteur de soul et de blues, feu Joe Cocker. Un ancien monteur d'essence de Sheffield, catapult? | dG1fcTJDb3RQbUdGR1E

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00:00Just tell us the story of Jerry Moss contacting you, and how that came from.

00:06He called me one night from L.A. and explained the situation.

00:11The situation was that Denny and Leon had put together a tour with Joe,

00:18and that Jerry Moss had decided to make a movie of the tour to go along with a live album.

00:27So they were to be hand in glove, basically.

00:29The two things were going to work together to promote each other.

00:33And having finished the tour, and Denny and Leon having reviewed the two concerts that were recorded,

00:40one at the beginning of the tour in New York and one at the end in Los Angeles,

00:45they decided that the performances on those two particular nights were not strong enough

00:49for an album to be released of the end result.

00:54So that meant that Jerry didn't have a movie, basically,

00:59because without the record, without the soundtrack, he was baggaged, really.

01:05And he said that he had suggested to them that possibly they could get a third party in

01:12to try and rescue the content, somebody who hadn't heard it before

01:17and therefore was not emotionally involved in any way, really.

01:19And the three of them had agreed on me as being the possible person to do that.

01:26And so that was what the call was about.

01:27So I was very happy to get involved, and I jumped on a plane.

01:31I went and listened the next day to both the concerts.

01:37And in my view, they were quite right about one of them,

01:41the one at the end of the tour, which was recorded in Los Angeles,

01:43wasn't very good at all.

01:45However, the one in New York, which was, I think, one of the first, if not the first,

01:49I thought it was fantastic, it had incredible energy,

01:52and there were a couple of little problems with it,

01:55but in the main, nothing that couldn't be resolved.

01:58And so I set about making a double album out of that concert.

02:07When you said you thought it was fantastic,

02:10so musically, what did you think?

02:14I mean, this is the first time you'd heard it.

02:15I thought the band, I thought Joe was fantastic,

02:19I thought the band were really good.

02:21There were a couple of little odd moments that one could cover up or cough over,

02:27you know, but the general impression to me was that it was fantastic.

02:31It was a great live album.

02:32It's what a live album should be.

02:33It's a really good performance.

02:35It was very exciting.

02:37The audience were very receptive.

02:39I thought it was great.

02:40I didn't see what their problem was, to be honest with you.

02:42So I mixed it, I added the choir again,

02:48there were a lot of rather odd people singing,

02:51along with the original people.

02:53Anybody who was around, it seemed, got in the choir,

02:57whether they could sing or not.

02:58So that was a bit of an unruly mess.

03:01So I replaced the choir with the original people,

03:05not with other people,

03:06but with the original people who were actually the singer's book to do it,

03:09Rhys Akkulish being one.

03:11And so that was the biggest problem with it.

03:14And that got resolved by replacing them.

03:17And made the album and delivered it.

03:22Well, before I delivered it, I called Joe,

03:24because I realized that no one had actually involved him

03:29in any of these decisions that were being made on his behalf.

03:31And I thought, well, the least I can do is have him come and listen to it

03:36and have him approve it before I give it to anybody, really.

03:40So I got a hold of him and he came to the studio

03:42and sat in the back of the control room while I played him the record.

03:49He barely spoke.

03:50He wasn't in the best of spirits, I must be honest.

03:52He was rather sad.

03:53and stood up at the end of it and said it was OK with him

03:58and walked out.

04:00So at least I got his approval anyway.

04:02I mean, and I've never said this to anybody,

04:07but if he'd have said that he didn't approve of it,

04:12I would have erased what I'd done

04:14and got on a plane and gone home.

04:16because to me, the most important thing always is the artist.

04:20It's got to be.

04:23And it's their life, for God's sake, that's on the line

04:26when you're making records or doing anything when the movie comes to that.

04:29Anyway, he agreed.

04:31I got Denny and Leon down.

04:32They listened to it and they approved it

04:34and then I delivered it to Sherry and the rest is history.

04:37And then I worked on the sound for the movie after that.

04:46And then I worked on the sound for the movie after the movie after that.

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