Sound Engineer, Tom Dowd, recorded for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers Band, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Cream, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Booker T. & the MG’s and a bunch of others. I just stumbled across his name today. And found this fantastic video of him behind the soundboards. A real pleasure. The guy’s a wizard.
The video briefly explores the collaboration of Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, and shows Mr. Dowd doing what he do.
If, for some godforsaken reason you haven’t(?) heard the song Layla before, you should stick a finger in your eyeball, and then play the track below the video.
Tom Dowd’s wizardry comes in at around 1:53
Hah! Tom Dowd also worked on the Manhattan Project?!?
