Episode 20.11: How It’s Made

Riffing off the popular Discovery Network show, “How It’s Made,” John and Tom take an “Inside Baseball” — er, Inside YACHT ROCK! — look at the tricks of the trade during the golden age of music production…ya know, before the computers made everything easy on us! All sorts of fun little secrets, as revealed in Steve Lukather's book, “The Gospel According to Luke,” such as: How did they create the “drum loop” for Africa? Reeling hundreds of feet of analogue tape around mic stands all over the control booth Putting reel-to-reel tapes on an airplane to get the orchestra recorded The incredible story of how 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” was made More Steely Dan trade secrets What was “flying in vocals?” And more! Got any great “Inside Yacht Rock” stories for us? Share them on our Facebook page! facebook.com/yachtrockpodcast The Lightning Round: Is it Yacht, or Is It Not? Buried Treasures Off the Map References and Related: The Making of 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love Steve Lukather’s book, The Gospel According to Luke Watch the VH1 “Classic Albums” documentary on Amazon The making of “Peg” video on YouTube Yacht or Nyacht? The Official Yachtski Scale John’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist Tom’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist Playlist of songs featured on Out of the Main Intro/outro music: “Fantasy World” by Page99 Find and Follow: The Mainland: YachtRockPodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yachtrockpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/yachtrockpod Anchors Aweigh: https://anchor.fm/yachtrockpodcast