15 Quotes by Eddie Kramer

We always joked and kidded around, every day and every moment,

There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who's this guy? Where did he come from? We tracked him down. He was a student. His parents had given him some money to buy an open reel video recorder, ... It shows some wonderful moments that were not captured by the other cameras.

There's gonna be one nice piece of product coming out every year for about the next 15 years. There's enough good stuff there, trust me.

The take (of 'Hey Joe') that we're listening to on the box set has an earlier version of the backup singers singing a little out of key and not quite what they wanted,

This is what we do. We try to make the best out of what we had, ... It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Because of the leakage you had to be very careful of where you placed certain things. The bass was recorded in such a primitive mode that finding the right tone of the bass and making it fat . . . that was tricky.

It was such a fluid motion, from the brain to the heart to the hands to the feet with the pedals, that the nanosecond that he thought it, it came out with no interruption and his and he played from the heart.