{"id":10962,"date":"2018-07-17T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/takenote\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:25:55","slug":"producer-sean-slade-recalls-an-explosive-recording-session-with-lou-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/producer-sean-slade-recalls-an-explosive-recording-session-with-lou-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Sean Slade Recalls an Explosive Recording Session with Lou Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How a \u2018Magic Moment\u2019 with Lou Reed Turned Volatile (and Landed in a David Lynch Film)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sean Slade\u2014a course author for Berklee Online\u2019s Master of Music in Music Production<\/a> degree\u2014gained worldwide recognition as a producer when he and partner Paul Q. Kolderie produced Radiohead’s first hit, “Creep,” and later the band’s debut album, Pablo Honey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Producing such a smash opened many doors for Slade and Kolderie, and the Fort Apache studios they founded. Legends like Warren Zevon and David Bowie wanted to visit their studios because of the sound they captured with Radiohead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Get those ‘Creep’ guys,” is what Kurt Cobain told Courtney Love, when she was hunting for the perfect producer for Hole’s 1994 high-water mark, Live Through This<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lou Reed came to Kolderie and Slade when he was recording the classic, \u201cThis Magic Moment\u201d for a tribute to the songwriter Doc Pomus. The session soon turned explosive, which you’ll see in the video below. The song later appeared in David Lynch’s Lost Highway<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The big power chord that blew up the studio comes in at the moment when the femme fatale appears for the first time,” says Slade, “and I thought, ‘I can die and go to heaven now, because I’ve produced a song that was in a David Lynch movie! I should just retire.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n