Rick Jarrard

As an employee maker at RCA in the past due 1960s, Jarrard oversaw some good-to-classic albums from the Jefferson Aircraft, José Feliciano, and Harry Nilsson. His most crucial achievement was creating Surrealistic Cushion, the Jefferson Airplane’s second recording, and the first ever to include Elegance Slick within the lineup. Even though group were beginning to obtain further out within their changeover from folk-rock to psychedelic music, Jarrard helped supply the record a audio which was also palatable towards the pop marketplace, especially in his tasteful usage of reverb and his skill at blending vocal harmonies. Regardless of the fantastic music as well as the high product sales — the record made number 3 and spawned the very best Ten strikes “Light Rabbit” and “Someone to Like” — some associates from the music group sensed that Jarrard was an excessive amount of an unimaginative firm man. As a result, they ensured he didn’t produce any longer records on their behalf, using Al Schmitt for the much less industrial follow-up, After Bathing at Baxter’s. Schmitt informed Elegance Slick biographer Barbara Rowe the music group, aside from Slick, “didn’t like the audio of Surrealistic Cushion because there is far too very much echo onto it. They managed to get clear that that they had not really been pleased with Rick Jarrard.” Jarrard created Nilsson’s 1st two albums, Pandemonium Darkness Display and Aerial Ballet, plus some of his third, Harry. But not large sellers (Nilsson got yet to get his first strike), these were good pop/rock vocalist/songwriter productions with deft orchestral preparations, and Aerial Ballet included his strike cover of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin'” (which wouldn’t normally be a strike until it had been plucked from the recording for use because the theme of the film Midnight Cowboy. Nilsson should never have been completely content with the creation, however, as with 1971 he got some slashes off each of his 1st two albums, remixed them, added fresh vocals for some paths, and put everything together within the complicated package deal Aerial Pandemonium Ballet. Jarrard’s additional big industrial achievement, besides Surrealistic Cushion, was José Feliciano’s number 2 recording Feliciano!, which had his number 3 strike solitary cover of “Light My Open fire.”