Did Stephen Barncard and Don Gooch really fight?
Stephen Barncard: “There was no fight. It was an assault by Don, no two ways about it. We were both in the Record Plant Truck. I said ‘Don, you’re an asshole’, because he was dominating the console and was ignoring my input, and he turned around and, without warning, crazily started slapping me around, trashing my glasses. The Record Plant crew were required to pull him off of me. I was knocked to the floor, and then retreated to a safety zone outside for a while. I did not fight back. I later told David and Graham about it. I was blamed anyway. “Lee Shore” was being recorded onto tape, but nobody was at the recording helm for a few minutes. Some people, notably Stanley Johnson (who was not in the truck, but mixing monitors) cast doubt on the account, calling it a ‘fight’ in Crosby’s book. His account is not true. Our (Don and I) 3-year engineering “partnership” was unraveling at the time; and I might have been guilty of avoiding him while on the road. Ours was an uneven partnership, I
Stephen Barncard: “There was no fight. It was an assault by Don, no two ways about it. We were both in the Record Plant Truck. I said ‘Don, you’re an asshole’, because he was dominating the console and was ignoring my input, and he turned around and, without warning, crazily started slapping me around, trashing my glasses. The Record Plant crew were required to pull him off of me. I was knocked to the floor, and then retreated to a safety zone outside for a while. I did not fight back. I later told David and Graham about it. I was blamed anyway. “Lee Shore” was being recorded onto tape, but nobody was at the recording helm for a few minutes. Some people, notably Stanley Johnson (who was not in the truck, but mixing monitors) cast doubt on the account, calling it a ‘fight’ in Crosby’s book. His account is not true. Our (Don and I) 3-year engineering “partnership” was unraveling at the time; and I might have been guilty of avoiding him while on the road. Ours was an uneven partnership, I
