From awahlbom@Krille.Update.UU.SE Thu Nov 16 04:31:27 1995 From: Anders Wahlbom To: HineFans Subject: Swedish Hine articles Saga on Rupert Hine: (Excerpt from interview in Schlager no. 60 (8/83, 5 March)) ...Let's explain this thing about Rupert Hine, because this is where a large part of the core of the problem is. [The problem being, if I understand the rest of the interview right, finding out what kind of music Saga play.] Hine produced the band's two latest albums, and you can really hear that. Jim Chrichton: "Of course, his influence is obvious. He's a producer we really trust. It's absolutely essential when someone is to go and poke around in our arrangements, swap things around and take out painfully worked out ideas. It really shocked us the first time, but now he can do things like that without annoying us. "He also has the right attitude to things, he'll do *anything* to get it right. Like when Michael's voice got too strained for something he was supposed to sing. Rupert pulled wires to the house where we slept, and taped Michael's singing early in the morning, one minute after he woke up with a rested voice... His only fault is a tendency to overwork things, but we have that tendency too. We usually stop each other." * Why him in the first place? "The first albums were produced in Canada; for 'Worlds Apart' we wanted a change of environment, and we met some English producers. When we met Rupert it was settled after we had talked for ten minutes. Of course we were aware of the nice things he had done with his own music. We had had his records sent over to us. Then, after 'Worlds Apart', there was no doubt that we wanted to work with him again. But we almost didn't get it through, which would have been a pity - we work so well together. He has a great influence on our music, and, I should think, we on his." - Interview by Soeren Nylin ---