What artists say about working with John Fields...

On the production side, you had a little assistance from Mr. John Fields?
"Yeah, John is great... John is incredibly musical in a way that he can just pick up a bass or a keyboard and the whole time he's doing it, he's doing the recording, sitting at the console. He's really great at multitasking, so between me, John and Michael, we can really get a lot done."
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What was it like in the studio with [John Fields]?
"One of the reasons why I loved working with him is because he is spontaneous to a degree, and it was the right amount of spontaneity. I've never made a record like that. We were making mixing decisions before we even recorded certain instruments. Somehow on every track, we always maintained that bird's eye view and it formed in an interesting way... It was as if we were throwing it against a wall and there was no formula. That's the way he works and I loved recording that way."
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What was it like working with John Fields?
"It was amazing. He was such a great producer and exactly what we wanted in a producer. He understood our vision but didn't stomp on it but made it better. He was exactly what we needed at the time, which was someone who could take what we wanted to do and make it reality for us... He's always been someone we respected as a producer and loved the bands he's worked with. So the chance to do a whole album with him was a dream come true."
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"I think [Fields] is just really unbelievably musically talented," Anderson said. "To have somebody who knows so much and can play every instrument that we're playing was great. He has brought a lot of detail and understanding of what works and what doesn't."
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"We finished the record with [Palmer], he mixed it, and then we sat down and really analyzed it. Something wasn't fitting right in my stomach about it. I was lucky enough to have the luxury to go back in the studio and redo a bunch of stuff that I really wanted to work on. I wrote a couple more songs and recut a bunch of tracks... Also there was John Fields -- a monster talent. My money is on that guy becoming humongous. He's pretty big already."
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“Producers? Labels? Why?
I will say that John Fields, who I did my record with, is a genius. Guys like that will always have a place, because they add something that artists can't do themselves. He actually provides something that's unattainable without him-- and there are a lot of producers out there who also do that. But the ones who don't, the ones who are basically leeches with an overinflated salary, they're gonna be fucked."
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