I listened to the whole interview and it was really great. A couple of wonderful takes that I didn't know:
"Aqualung's master tape machine was out of alignment and the stereo master was harmed from that." That is amazing and I might have to go seek out his remix and compare.
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Man of the People is supposed to be a collaboration of Marvin Gaye and Pink Floyd." Again, I hear the PF similarities and he even admitted he cannot sing anywhere close to Gaye, but I guess I hear some similarities of him.
I'm going to keep my hat in the ring for MJ's
Dangerous. There is this little tidbit and makes me think that he could have 90+ tracks for some songs.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-michael-jackson-black-or-white
"Thereafter, the sessions moved to Westlake, where Bruce Swedien utilised one room, Bottrell used another and, eventually, drummer/percussionist/synth player Bryan Loren worked in a third. Armed with a Neve console, Bottrell used a pair of 24-track Studer analogue tape machines to record initial tracks and then compiled things on Mitsubishi 32-track."
Is that three different people with at least one 24 track machine in each room? I have to think that having four 24-track tape machines is EXPENSIVE. Who in the early 90s could demand anything from a record company? MJ was a legend by then. Also, Black and White is the most expensive music video of all time, so money wouldn't be an issue for the actual music as well.
It's fun to speculate on what album he could be referring to...