Brad Kyle on Front Row & Backstage

I actually don't disagree. For years I had wished there was a way his thunderous approach could be rendered with far more treble...or, at least, clearer. Invariably, though, his records came out sounding muddy, just as you said. His "vaunted place in history" has to do, mostly, with the fact he was doing what no one else was doing (the cynic would say, "Sure, no one wanted their records to sound like that!"); plus, he was a master showman, an arrogant carnival barker, and the first producer to get his name printed on a single's label....he saw to it. Now, once I read so much about how he achieved that, I was amazed, and "got over" my initial dislike for the sound, and then what happened completely shifted...sure, I still followed his career....ooh, you need to read this....one of my handful of really proud moments, here...from May, and following Tina's passing: https://bradkyle.substack.com/p/tina-turner-1966-phil-spectors-river A favorite niche collecting-focus for me in the '70s (and there were a lot!) became artists who set out to SOUND LIKE Spector (or approximate his results, if only on this song or that, rather than build their total sound like that)....Artists like Roy Wood, his ELO bud, Jeff Lynne, the Raspberries, Beach Boys even Springsteen.....I had and "couldn't get" his 1st 2 albums. He comes with the proudly-admitted Spector-cop of "Born to Run," and I was SO, then, into him (as so many others became)! I could stand to do an article collecting just those artists....who set out to sound like a Spector production! I just did that, 3 weeks ago, to the Beach Boys...artists who intentionally recorded an original song performed and recorded as if by the BBs: https://bradkyle.substack.com/p/grow-bigger-ears-19-beach-boys-sound