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The worst:
The Works. Nothing more than a mere shallow, dull sound. The snare takes the biscuit. Unbelievable, they must have been pie-eyed or stoned at the time.
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Ooh yeah, I almost forgot that! There are some songs on The Works such as Tear It Up, It's A Hard Life and Hammer To Fall that scream out for a big classic rock drum sound like they have on A Day At The Races, and parts of Innuendo and The Miracle. unfortunately the whole album sucks drum sound wise!! In a lot of places half of the crash cymbals sound like china cymbals!! I think the tracks were recorded at The Record Plant in the US, and the album 'Nine Lives' by Aerosmith was recorded in the same room, 13 years later, and had a similar style of drum sound.
Bizarrely though the drum sound on The Works tour was also consistently the worst live drum sound Roger ever had too - certainly on the recordings I've heard like Rio and Final Live In Japan - so I don't quite know what was going on other than possibly the chrome finished kit had a lot to do with the final sound? I was also certainly surprised to see Roger recording and gigging with the manufacturer's drum skins left on that kit, rather than having them replaced with something better such as Remos as is the norm.
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