Eddie Offord, genius or Bumbling Fool?

Come to think of it, he did do a pretty good job on Pallas' The Sentinel, too.

That albums is one of my guilty pleasures. I really don't think it's all that great, but man do I love listening to it.

All that I can say is Eddie didn't obviously impose his thoughts too much on Yes, because he engineered also other bands, like ELP, and they don't sound the least same. 

well I have had some experience with mixing recordings while mixing something else and I can honestly say I am happy with the results. Theres a thing called learned behavior , see the thing is if you learn to do a task straight and get it down pat so its second nature everything works out OK when the herb gets added, its only when you are not that competent straight at doing it problems happen, I would say Eddie was very familiar with his task. Herb can alter perception in a positive way if used with some common sense. (I don`t smoke herb anymore BTW)   but I have no problems if I find an artist or engineer I like is under the influence so long as the results of the project are good/great. I believe in Eddie`s case the results were great so whats the issue ? 


Edited by Masque - May 27 2006 at 01:15

Are you sure these two sentances are mutually exclusive?  Drugs probably don't make an Engineer any better, but they may have contributed to "happy accidents" in the studio.  I'm sure much mixing experimentation was caused by herbal (and other) experimention (and with positive results).