CHRIS THOMAS
Chris Thomas (born 13 January 1947 in Brentford, Middlesex) is an English record producer who has worked extensively with The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Badfinger, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Pulp, and The Pretenders. He has also produced breakthrough albums for The Sex Pistols and INXS. (More from Wikipedia)
The Sex Pistols demos have recently been reissued on CD; according to Chris Spedding though: “They are not the same mixes that I did. Dave Goodman, the other producer besides Chris Thomas, went in and re-did them and added a lot of echo to them and added stuff to them. . . . The mixes I did sound better. I’m quite proud of the Sex Pistols demos, especially when compared to their other later recordings. . . . Part of why they ([manager Malcolm] McLaren and the Pistols) didn’t like my demos was because I like R&B. . . . The whole point of my demo – to prove they could play – that’s what I pushed. . . . And that’s what McLaren wanted people to think: that they couldn’t play, that was just an idea, a way of making all this anarchy stuff happen.”
(November 2011)
