Jimmy Miller

Jimmy Miller

Jimmy Miller is probably the best and most famous record producer in the world. He did Traffic and Spooky Tooth, and he now produces the Rolling Stones. His work is characterized by an unmistakable crispness, a clean, precise, hard-edged quality. Just listen to Through The Past, Darkly, it’s all great, essential rock and roll, but on those cuts that he produced it’s as if a film of gauze has been lifted from between the Stones and you; you weren’t even aware it Was there, but suddenly the music has so much more presence.

One day Russ Gibb called and said that Jimmy Miller would be in town the next day to listen and talk to Russ,and (isi band, the Sky-would we like to set up an interview? you betchum, we said, and he said he’d call back. About eight o’clock the next night we got a call from Russ made on some electronic device concealed in his car, on the move.

“Well, said Russ, “we’re on our way to Motown right now. How about meeting us there?” chk-chk (electronic device noise)