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The Only Ones were an English rock band formed in London in 1976, whose original band members are Peter Perrett, Alan Mair, John Perry and Mike Kellie, they first disbanded in 1982. I love Neumanns, so one of those would have been a couple of feet away from the cabinet and then there'd be a Shure or an AKG right against the speaker. "Obviously, the heads were aligned differently to those on Johnnie's machine, and no matter how much we fiddled about we couldn't get it to sound right. only to find out it's gone. When I think about what Kellie did, it still sends chills up my spine. "It felt like an eternity," Mair now remarks, "but when they put the 16-track on, there in all its glory was 'Planet', pounding out of the speakers, and it was like heaven. and I wasn't producing, I might go, 'Oh, OK then.' The whole thing was simple; two guitars, bass, drums and vocals. They went, 'Oh, fucking hell, Alan', and I said, 'No, look, this is really important.' "We continued recording 'Planet' and did several different versions, in between working on other songs," Alan Mair says. Let's go down the pub. It doesn't have gimmicks, it just has a great sound. With Barry Del Sherman, Isabel Gillies, Bob Gosse, Elina Löwensohn. Bernice rushes in to help an archeologist friend who is being stalked by a mysterious figure. Again, I could always lose it in the mix. Another girl is loving you now. Web site designed & maintained by PB Associates & SOS. That means I can't get the bass drum totally on its own to compress it and do what I want, I can't get the snare drum on its own, and so I'm really handicapped in terms of getting the drums to sound powerful enough.' I wanted quality. The combination of those two produced an absolutely brilliant sound. The Helios was previously owned by Johnnie Burns' old friend, Steve Marriot. Their reunion gig took place at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead on April 27th, 2007; other shows have been lined up, the back catalogue has been remastered, and a new album is now being considered. Another Girl Another Planet book. Hailing from Glasgow, in his teens Alan Mair started a band named the Beatstalkers while still at school, and this became Scotland's biggest pop sensation of the mid-to-late '60s. Burns' first full engineering assignment was to record an Italian version of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', and by 1971 he'd signed a freelance deal with Island Records to work at London's Basing Street (now Sarm West) Studios, while also taking care of other projects. On 'Another Planet', the bass was recorded with a mic and DI — I probably used an AKG D20 — while for the guitars I used Neumann 87s or U67s. If you're recording, it shouldn't be too damned serious, and the Only Ones were a pleasure to work with. Other than that, there were a couple of double-tracked vocal parts on the chorus, and at that point we decided, OK, we've got the master, now let's start mixing. What, on the back of your van? Another Girl, Another Planet is a film directed by Michael Almereyda with Isabel Gillies, Elina Löwensohn, Maggie Rush, Barry Del Sherman, Mary Ward .... Year: 1992. So off they went, back down to Johnnie, and Johnnie was like, 'You're not bloody taking my machine away! The basic format of the song was all there — the chords, verses and chorus — and, as with all of Peter's material, we worked through it until everything fitted. The views expressed are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the publishers. Kellie, to my astonishment, just said, 'Oh, I'll put another kit on top of it.' "When you listen to 'Another Planet', you're actually hearing two kits. And musically we also had no connection to what was going on; hippies didn't know if we were punks, and punks didn't know if we were hippies, so we were out on a limb. Şarkı çıktığı günden beri birçok kez yeniden yorumlanmıştır. "The live room was about 35 feet long by 16 feet wide," Johnnie Burns recalls. "Bands with drug connections were bad news, and I'm sure that's how CBS saw it. Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet Chords Learn the song with the online tablature player ... And st C♯m and up straight and t A all and share about E it. At the time, our live following was growing and we never ever sat down and went, 'Oh, God, it's terrible that 'Planet' isn't a hit,' but I think deep down we were all really shocked.". What you've just done is absolutely phenomenal.' I mean, say you just laid down drums, bass and guitar, if you put the live mic up the band would go, 'Wow, what a sound!' Tannoy Red monitors in Lockwood cabinets, hanging from ceiling on rails, powered by a 700W Crown Amplifier; Auratone monitors on desk. "We were only at Basing Street for two weeks, working on that first album, and everything was set up for the recording of the other tracks, and so Kellie sat down at his kit and off he went, and within a few seconds we were all looking at each other like, 'Bloody hell!' 'Oh No' and 'Special View (AKA Telescopic Love)' would make their way onto later albums, but in the meantime Mair first heard 'Planet' when Perrett played it on guitar during pre-Escape rehearsals at Manno's Studios on the King's Road, and he was "just blown away". About 30 microphones, including eight Neumann U87s ("For electric guitar, vocals and overheads"), two valve Neumann U67s, AKG 451 ("Good for acoustic guitar and hi-hat, very directional"), AKG 224E ("Good for snare"), AKG D12, AKG D20 and AKG D25 ("All good for toms, bass drum and bass guitar"), some Neumann pencil mics (bass) and several Shures. Although Mair never requested a production credit for the first album and didn't get one, there's a consensus among all involved that he did fulfill that role. Here's a brief run-down of the equipment at Escape: "I was very hands-on, so Robert Ash and I set up a mix session, the whole band was there, and I said, 'Because of the way it was recorded, I just can't get any separation between the bass drum and snare. There ain't nothing I can do about it. We were talking about a recording that had been made about six months earlier. I said, 'You can do that?' There was no spark. Released as a single from the Only Ones' impressive, eponymous 1978 debut album, 'Another Girl, Another Planet' disappeared without trace and quickly dragged the group's unrealised fortunes with it. In this short independent feature, an ordinary-looking guy proves to be an unusually successful womanizer, and his East Village apartment begins to assume aspects of Grand Central Station. Almost immediately there was a buzz, with the key writers for the NME, Melody Maker and Sounds all giving us amazing write-ups, and when we headlined the Roundhouse in Camden Town, supported by Eddie and the Hotrods, a lot of people definitely got it. After releasing two more studio albums -- 1979's Even Serpents Shine and 1980's Baby's Got a Gun -- the Only Ones disintegrated in a blur of drugs and acrimony. So Kellie came in and then John came in, and more or less that whole introductory guitar part was done straight off. And when I got credited on the second record, that was for doing the same work as I did on 'Planet' and the first album.". We would just play until we felt comfortable, and then, without telling the other guys in the band that we were about to record, I would nod at John to kind of say, 'We're going to play for serious now. ', but when the guys heard it in the control room they all thought it was great. I don't do de. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1978 Vinyl release of Another Girl, Another Planet / As My Wife Says on Discogs. "That was created by the band. "Those first two Only Ones albums are timeless and organic," Alan Mair says "and that's why I think 'Planet' has caught on with young people. The insurance company learned that I used to leave a key in an envelope at the local pub for engineers to use when I was away, and after three years of paying solicitors and barristers to deal with the case I ended up getting £5000 for £70,000-worth of equipment...". "Johnnie had been recommended to us as a really good guy, a great guy and very switched-on," Mair explains, "and since we wanted to record outside of London, Escape seemed a logical place to go. When I brought the cassette in and played it, everyone agreed. We all went, 'Oh, no! "Another Girl, Another Planet" is the most successful song by the English rock band The Only Ones. The kit would be in stereo with the bass drum separate. Bang-bang. We'd hit that point, and I believe you only achieve that magic once. You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address. The album was re-released in Europe in 2009 on Sony Music Entertainment, featuring rare bonus content.The reissue was a CD which comprises 13-tracks. Although never a commercial success, the Only One's 'Another Girl, Another Planet' has proved to be massively influential; and nearly 30 years after its original release, it's finally getting the recognition it deserves. It just sounded fantastic. Kellie, that was perfect...' and he just went, 'It's okay, I'll do it again.' I can face your threats, stand up straight and tall and shout about it... Space travel's in my blood, and there ain't nothing I can do about it.". All rights reserved. Yet, in the wake of covers by Greg Kihn, the Replacements, the Lightning Seeds, the Mighty Lemon Drops, Blink 182 and Babyshambles, not to mention an 83 ranking in Q magazine's list of the '100 Greatest Guitar Tracks' and being placed at 18 in John Peel's millennium-edition 'All-Time Festive 50', the track has finally earned its creators some much-deserved recognition, courtesy of their recording being used in a 2006 Vodafone commercial. In my mind, there was no question: we were in line for a number one record, and had it been playlisted like everything else then I think it would have achieved that. The Only Ones, reunited in 2007. Sometimes 24-track was necessary, but you could get by with 16. I was doing all the sessions and I owned all the equipment, but this guy owned the buildings, and so I thought, 'Let's get out of here,' and I did. Released 21 April 1978 on CBS (catalog no. Sign up for Deezer and listen to Another Girl, Another Planet by The Only Ones and 56 million more tracks. I kind of nodded at Kellie to make sure he wasn't just watching us without intending to come in on drums, thinking that we were running through it without doing a full take. Another Girl, Another Planet is an original novel by Len Beech (a pseudonym for Steve Bowkett) and Martin Day featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. At that point, we were paying for the sessions ourselves, and in September 1977 we recorded 'Oh No', 'The Whole of the Law', 'Special View', 'Breaking Down' and 'Another Girl, Another Planet'.". Long journeys wear me out. First off, Peter did the proper vocal, because we knew what he'd done was just a guide and, since he hadn't been spot-on the mic all the time, it needed improving. "It was an old Kent barn, and we had problems with the soundproofing. Generally, I also put a live mic up on a boom, right above everything, but invariably I wouldn't use it. The six-month search for a bass player on the part of Perrett, Perry and Kellie was finally over. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another_Girl,_Another_Planet_(novel)&oldid=964855549, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 June 2020, at 00:04. Not only was there the joint mission on Mars but there was also a thriving joint Soviet-NATO Moon settlement (complete with several cities). As it turned out, 'Another Girl, Another Planet' did the see the light of day very quickly, before fading into the dark, along with the album that bore the group's name. I also used a Shure to record Pete's guide vocals.". What's more, that kit also had the backwards reverb at the start. Another girl, another planet . "Most people think we're a brand-new band, and the outpouring of affection really has taken all of us by surprise," says bass player/producer Alan Mair. It was like we were going to conquer the world.". "It was more or less complete, with maybe one or two lines of lyrics to fill in, and it also didn't have the long intro," Mair recalls. Occasionally I've used the live mic on records, but generally I'd get rid of it in the mix because of all the spill from the guitars and so forth. As it turned out, 'Another Girl, Another Planet' did the see the light of day very quickly, before fading into the dark, along with the album that bore the group's name. "It didn't take much to figure out it was about drugs, but stations like Capital Radio were supposed to be innovative and different, and what about songs like 'Golden Brown'? It depended on the drummer. Mair continues the story: "He called me and said, 'Alan, all I need to do is a tone tape for you. The Only Ones: left to right, Alan Mair, John Perry, Mike Kellie and Peter Perrett.
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