Bill Withers ‘Didn’t Live Out Loud’: Engineer Dave Hampton Salutes the Man Behind the Music
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billboard.comMost people don’t know him by name, but Dave Hampton is one of the music industry’s top-flight audio engineers. His clientele has included Prince, Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, RZA, M.I.A. -- and Bill Withers, who died on Monday (March 30) at the age of 81.In this exclusive as-told-to, Los Angeles-based Hampton goes beyond the music to focus on the special bond that he and Withers literally crafted by hand.I met Bill Withers in the ‘90s with [musician/producer] Marcus Miller.
I was working with Marcus on building a studio in Santa Monica. Bill and I struck up a friendship because he was a craftsman, just really good with his hands creatively.
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