Episode 13 – Make No Mistake: The Rick Rubin A/B

Radical Research Podcast · Sep 4, 2018 · 1h 18m

There are no happy accidents or lucky mistakes in Rick Rubin productions. The legendary producer knows exactly what he wants and how to get the leanest, meanest performances from each artist he works with. In our examples, he wielded a decisive guiding hand in helping bands clean up their tendencies toward the wandering and erratic, leading to honed, definitive albums that became legendary. His greatest talent, perhaps, was that he might have changed these bands significantly, but never sapped them of their purest essence.

Note I: About Rubin’s later work with Metallica and Black Sabbath, ie…