Rollin' and Tumblin'

I studied under producer/engineer Adrian Barber for about 3 months in the late 70’s and he was quite a character with very seat of the pants in his approach. To some degree you can hear that in “Dream On.” None of the instrument entrances to the sections are clean, with certain instruments (mostly the guitars) jumping out ahead. The lead vocal falls out of the pocket for a second due to a late entrance at 1:58. All this was left in, yet it never hindered our enjoyment of the song, which goes to prove that production perfection doesn’t exactly mean you’ll have a hit.