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‘He was in his head a lot”: Rick Rubin on the hardest-working artist he collaborated with
Rick Rubin's career reads like a top 40 charts compilation. It spans across all genres and all names, but this artist he ...
“A perfect record”: The song Rick Rubin attempted to sabotage
From Johnny Cash and Black Sabbath to Lucinda Williams and Public Enemy, Rick Rubin has produced them all. But he claims that ...
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What Rick Rubin told legendary guitarist Joe Perry during the recording of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way
But as producer Rick Rubin says in an interview with ... And so, after persuading Run-DMC to record Walk This Way, Rubin used ...
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How Rick Rubin shaped the sound of Slayer’s first album by ignoring heavy metal norms
Across his career, Rick Rubin has had a hand in ... I played him a Metallica record as an example of what I thought was wrong.” Rubin took issue with the tempo of ’Tallica’s tracks, which ...
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How Rick Rubin thinks about creativity, listening and pioneering new ideas
Singer-songwriter Tom Petty and producer Rick Rubin in 1993 during the recording ... he's noticed a lot of record companies having "cookie-cutter ideas" that may have worked for one artist in ...
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Eight things we learned from Rick Rubin's Desert Island Discs
Music producer Rick Rubin has been shaping the sound of popular ... but felt that the first attempts to record rap were too polite – and decided that the answer was to do it himself: “The ...