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Tina All The Best (Interview CD) |
Heres some of the questions and anwers taken form the promo only "Tina all the best Interview CD" in total there are 23 questions, total duration 29 minutes.The Interview with Tina was conducted by Alan Jackson, in Zurich Switzerland, in September 2004, many tracks from the double CD are discussed
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| So, this is the first whole career retrospective for Tina Turner. I guess you must be mighty proud of your body of work. Do they all sound good to you? |
| Well all the best is very special because they don't sound really dated, listening to all the mixes there, they feel now, they feel current. I'm very proud when I listen to them and to know that I'm giving this work out because it represents a part of my life from the past all the way up until now, proud of the fact that its still good quality and that even with the new songs where the blend of the vocals are still just as strong and vibrant I think it's a piece that I can be proud of.Taken from www.tina-turner.co.uk |
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| There are three new tracks on the CDs. How do you go about choosing that new material? |
Sometimes it doesn't have to be a song I can necessarily relate to in terms of experience, it just has to be something lyrically that I like, like for instance sometimes some very simple, simple songs that only has a small message. Actually I don't like autobiographical songs because I've done enough of those. I sometimes tire of the blues so I like songs that are kind of relative, there kind of go both ways for the young, for the old, for the now and mmm' it's very hard top explain but the music is also very important to me.
It's not just the lyrics it's the music as well because that motivates me to get into delivering the song I think that says how I feel about the early stages once I receive the demos. Its is a mixture of the music and the lyrics, it doesn't have to have a strong, strong meaning it can be very simple, but a feeling is, definitely has something has to be projected for me to feel that mmm' this song feels good or sometimes they don't have that but they have the potential of having that.Taken from www.tina-turner.co.uk |
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| The first single is "Open arms" tell us about your collaboration (with Jimmy Hogarth) |
| That was another persuasive song coming from Roger Davis my manager. It had a stale old feeling to it when I first got the demo and I didn't like it at all. I was very upset because I felt can't the record company not give me something current, something to show that I'm up to date, I mean do I have to sing a certain type of song the rest of my life. I was very, very upset and then of course Roger said "I think there's a kid that's going to work with you on this song and gonna bring it to life". I said "well you know I'm always open to sing a song but this is one that I'm really upset with I'm not happy with this material I want something modern something that works with today's music". I mean it didn't have to be a rapping song or hip hop but open arms, I mean how long do I have to be here with open arms (laugh).Then the track came then I put on a vocal, then the song came to life for me, so I like it now. Taken from www.tina-turner.co.uk
I was really surprised when I arrived at the studio it was a surprise because most studios today have 24 tracks or more all the way across, it's machine and technique and you name it, and here it looked like a storage house, it had an old metal door very old, old place kind of run down a bit and I walked in it and it reminded me of my first recording of a Fool In Love, it was from 3 - 4 track or something, 8 track maybe was the most. Here are these two young kids sitting there smiling and it was all of this space not more and I said to him don't ever change it, keep it just like it is because this is where the real essence of sound comes from and the place was really a storage place and I went in for the recordings it was just kind of like I was in an old run down place but it felt good the sound, I felt like I could do it without the earphones actually. It was wonderful in the sense that somebody could do this work and not have to go into all of that advanced technology stuff, it was wonderful I loved it and I loved the guys, I said "are you the one that really pulled that old stale song out and really made it up" he said "yeah" he was not really shy but young you know, it was nice.Taken from www.tina-turner.co.uk
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