Awesome! Could be a very promising future. Ken Scott has lots of fans in this forum and probably every Happy the Fan loves his Happy the Productions so hopefully he knows about that.

, this makes me yearn for the next HTM album even more when thinking of that maybe...maybe Ken Scott wants to produce it.

Btw, Bill, did you ever meet Ken during the s/t and Crafty days? And another Q, do you know if Ken is pleased with his productions on those two Happy albums?

Great! Must have caused a good feeling bring those two guys together again. Well, I'm dreaming already of a 5.1 mix from Crafty Hands done by Ken....

This was the first time I've met Ken. We've sent email back and forth for a while.

Sad news, he doesn't believe that the multitracks for the 2 Arista albums exist anymore. Not likely that we can ever have a 5.1 of those recordings.

Good news, he might consider doing the Oblivion Sun project. He needs to hear some songs first and we need to know how much it'll cost. Time will tell all.

Well, I was only dreaming, Bill, never thought a 5.1 Crafty would happen. But Oblivion Sun done by Ken sounds very promissing. I don't know if he does a lot of jobs nowadays, like he did in the seventies, so who knows he isn't too expensive anymore. Maybe, when you let him play a triangle somewhere he might do it for free

;D ;D

Hey, why not the s/t album

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Thats great if Ken would do the producing on the Oblivion Sun album. I keep my fingers crossed. Why dont you offer him a free copy of the finnished OBSun cd, then he might do it for free

"But Oblivion Sun done by Ken sounds very promissing. "

Is this possibility of Ken Scott doing OS real?

Unfortunately, Ken won't be doing the OBSun CD (unless I win the lottery). I will be sending Ken some rough mixes and getting his input when he's available. I'll also be doing the same with Bob Clearmountain and a few other guys I can't afford.

I just came accross an interview w/ Ken. There's a small nod to HTM there.

www.stevehoffman.tv/dhinterviews/KenScottInterviewMar06.htm

That was indeed a very small nod

I skipped through the interview and it looks an interesting read, especially the talks about 5.1. I guess the interview was made before Love, the surroundmix from the Beatles, was released.

If you check over on the 1978 favorites listings, two LPs from that particular year were done by Ken Scott:

HTM "Crafty Hands"
Dixie Dregs "What If"

Two classics. Ken should be proud.

JH

You're right. Even more, some of the best albums in my collection are produced by Ken: The Tubes (Young And Rich), Supertramp (Crime Of The Century), Mahavishnu Orchestra (Visions Of The Emerald Beyond), Happy The Man, Billy Cobham (one track on The best of), Stanley Clarke (Schooldays), Jeff Beck (There & Back) and Dixie Dregs.

Last Thursday I re-read the Mix-interview with Ken Scott, in which he talks about doing a 5.1 mix for Crime Of The Century (an idea that didn't happen, because one of the band-members didn't want to do it). Next day I read in the paper that Scott was going to be in Utrecht, Holland on Saturday as a guest of a Beatles-meeting. Coincidentally I was going to be in Utrecht too that day (seeing the Canadian progressive singer/songwriter Patrick Watson). More coincidental was the fact that, when I came in my living room Friday-evening to get me another beer, the tv was on and the program started with an interview with..... Ken Scott!! He was of course talking about his story with the Beatles, a bit about Bowie and a small view on Supertramp. That was it, but it was great watching the man talk. A very modest man, who spoke with well-chosen words about a part of history he was involved with.

The interview I was pointing at can be read over here: mixonline.com/mag/audio_ken_scott/ (maybe it was posted before).

He quite a nice person. I owe him a call and a CD.

Bill, are you still considering Ken as the producer of the next or any future OS CD or are you happy with the S/T and therefore continue the self producing?

Ken's out of our price range. We will have someone engineer the next CD. We don't know who yet but there are discussions about a number of folks.

interesting clip featuring Ken Scott and Terry Bozzio. On this site you'll also find clips with Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs) and Woody Woodmansey (?).

Nice page featuring the covers of the Happy The Man-LP's on Ken Scott's site.

Last year a book on Ken Scott was published: Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust.

Just got this book and had a brief look in it. Yes, there's a short sub-chapter on HTM in it, but it isn't just a happy story. Scott wasn't very happy some drugs were used during the recordings of Crafty Hands. He called the paragraph "Am I A Hypocrite?"....
The book looks great b.t.w. Nice hard-cover and some good black and white photographs, including an unknown (to me anyway) one of HTM!

Woh, I didn't know the guys used drugs especially not on a regular basis or when playing music - they play to good to use it (I might thought)
Or is perhaps the drugs (if not too much of it I guess) the way to play better? Some or many jazz musicians of the 50's and 60's did it so..

Could you please scan that unknown HTM picture and share it here

Well, I haven't read the paragraph, just a short piece, so I don't know if they used drugs, just that there were drugs in the studio, which was against Kenn's rules. Well, it appears that while the band was up to recording the only vocal track from Crafty Hands (Wind Up Doll Day Wind) and Stan had to record his vocals, he was out. Kenn had warned the band not to use drugs after he had seen how Ron Riddle had used some to keep awake after he had driven cross-country to be at the recording sessions. Kenn found Stan "inhaling the white powder", after which he left the session. Ken tries to explain that drugs indeed sometimes help musicians to perform better, while other times people just think they play better. That's why he confesses: "I'm a hypocrite, I guess."

Still, Ken is very positive about the music he produced with Happy The Man: "...they were an amazing band and it's just such a shame that most people have never heard of them."

I've emailed you the picture. Hop you can put it here somewhere.

steamingears sent me the picture of Ken with Happy The Man, so here it is. Thanks for sharing!

Just noticed the picture is on the Happy The Man-site too.

Here's a link to a 74 minute recent interview with Ken Scott, in which he tells about his book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE5EC1xpmV0