Is there a difference between working with world music artists and rock bands, for example?
Fundamentally, music is music, and everybody wants to get the best they can out of their music. Stylistically, the ways of approaching parts and sounds are a bit different. There are certain rules in rock music, certain sounds that lay the foundation, whereas in world music the foundations are different. You learn how to adapt your ideas to different sounds. What led you to work with Tool and Godsmack? The Tool connection (click on artist names to listen to Real Audio files Ed.) came partly through my work at Real World Studios, but also through the King Crimson and David Sylvian records I had produced. At the time, I hadnt really done much heavy music, but the Tool guys had all kinds of records in their collection and my name seemed to crop up a lot. Tool wanted to stay away from being a standard rock band; they wanted a producer who had had different experiences. They knew how to do things in the rock world, so they were able to teach me about that, and I was able to teach them about
