Talk:Glyn Johns

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Let it Be
Did Johns engineer the sessions at Twickenham Studios? Or only at the Apple studio? Or did he only do the remix? He is credited on 'Let It be ... Naked' as Engineer - but for which sessions? 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:31D8:DD56:7C2A:E8FD (talk) 22:45, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * He was there right from the beginning at Twickenham all the way through Apple Studios and the rooftop concert. Pawnkingthree (talk) 17:22, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Johns expressed some 'embarrassment' being in the position that he had expected George Martin would be in. He mentioned that Martin took him to lunch to assure him that all was well which encouraged Johns. Was wondering if this detail needs to be added to the article. Any thoughts?THX1136 (talk) 01:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * In the Get Back documentary film we see Johns present at both the Twickenham and Apple sessions.Garagepunk66 (talk) 22:02, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Expansion of article--please excuse temporary messiness(!)
A few years ago I started to work on an expansion for this article, because I felt that Glyn Johns deserved a much more in-depth article. I just finished the main expansion of the text of this article to better reflect enormity of his legacy. In order to do it neatly, I cut and transferred large blocks of text from my Sandbox 1 into the article. It took a lot of complicated to work to sort it all out in my sandbox, so it would have been just way too difficult (and chaotic) to insert smaller statements into the main article in piecemeal fashion. Furthermore, I had to be able to pre-visualize what the article would look like in larger form--and the only way to do that is in the sandbox.

While working on the new text in my sandbox over the last few years, I have taken extra care to make sure, as best as possible, that each and every edit that other editors have made be incorporated into the text I was working/wording on, each step of the way (in some cases I may have moved prior statements into new places/sections or made sight modifications to wording). Every so often, I would incorporate the latest set of edits other editors had made and I'd make a marker-notation with the latest date (of updates). Today I went through all of the edits that had been made since my last update and incorporated them into the whole text. Here are the recent edit pages in my Sandbox 1 which display this particular batch of other editor's edits I've have incorporated:

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My original plan was to organize things chronologically--and that still holds true to some extent. However, after working on it for awhile, the text started looking like a big blob, so I realized that I would need to sub-divide certain sections into subsections centered around the names of certain performers that Johns worked with--I tried to keep it more or less as chronological as possible. The problem is that sometimes Glyn Johns would go back and work again later with certain artists--so perfect chronology is not really possible. The sub-section method turned out to be a good solution, because now the text looks attractive and comprehensible and really showcases how many incredible artists Johns has worked with over the years. Is there any producer or engineer in rock with a greater resumé?(!)

I have to admit, though that I need to tidy some things up... There are several glaring places that still need citations. In those places I inserted [citation needed] tags--and I also adorned them with ***centrioles*** to make those places easier for me to find. I can guarantee that the centrioles won't be there too much longer--I'll be working on that over the next few days. Rome wasn't built in a day. You are certainly welcome to add any citations needed.

I made changes/ improvements to existing citations as best I could. I added ref-names whenever I could, so that those citations can be replicated. I really liked the way one editor had put "rf" citations for info. from Johns' book. However, I already had so may references from Johns' book already done in "sfn" and "sfnm" Harvard-style citations, that I folded those rf's into the sfn and sfnm citations--they still have the exact same page #s that were in the old rf's.  I've tried to corroborate John's recollections with third-party references as well, but there are still a few more of those to add. There are also some places where I need to go back and make other kinds of improvements. There are a few statements I could either trim-down or develop in more detail. Also, I tried to write in British English, but I am from the US, so you may see some places that need correcting. I'd also like to add some photos.

Please give me any feedback about how to make it better.Garagepunk66 (talk) 05:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I've been correcting a few minor issues, hope you don't mind. The one that is left is for "Krehbiel 2016", which has no matching cite in the Bibliography section. Looking around to see if I could work out what this was for I came across Jeff Krehbiel blog post on rocknrollspotlight.com (now archived at Wayback Machine here). The dates and details referenced match up, but I haven't set up a cite for it as it's not a reliable source. Although Krehbiel appears to have blogged extensively about music, he doesn't appear to to pass the criteria for self published sources (see WP:SPS). The three references to him need to be replaced. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 11:23, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your help! We could try to find a better source for that statement.  Incidentally, which statement (and section) did that source correspond to?  I'm sure that there is a better source to be found for it. Garagepunk66 (talk) 16:30, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It's the three use of "Krehbiel 2016" currently refs #7, #11, and #19. The details are he left the choir at age 13, that he was influenced by Rock Island Line, and that his first session was for Lonnie Donegan. Another editor templated the effected refs in this edit. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 19:27, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Just letting everyone know that during the process of working on the expansion (in the last month) I changed my user name from Garagepunk66 to GloryRoad66. Different name, same editor. GloryRoad66 (talk) 05:10, 20 July 2023 (UTC)