The epic Playing for Change video was the result two years of work across ten countries
” and more. “The Weight” was done on an epic scale, a year and a half of production over five continents. “We made it brick by brick, starting with Robbie,” says co-founder Mark Johnson, a Grammy-winning producer-engineer who’s worked with Paul Simon, Keith Richards and more. “That’s what makes this special. We could never have never assembled this group in the studio. You need to go there, and then when you go there, you’re wherefeel comfortable. You hear that in the music.
We had built a mobile recording studio with the same equipment I used to use [recording with] Paul Simon at the Hit Factory. And in the beginning, we just powered it with golf cart batteries, car batteries. Now I have little battery packs so we traveled the world with a mobile studio, great equipment and some cameras and this one we started off with Robbie Robertson playing guitar.
And then as we traveled the world, we would deconstruct [the track.] So Ringo would replace the drums. Hutch [James “Hutch” Hutchinson”] would replace the bass. Everywhere I go, I’m putting headphones on musicians, and they’re listening to whatever preceded them and playing along. And that’s how we built it as we went from country to country. I think in this video, we went to about ten different countries.I think there were two.
,” which we had released a few years ago and they loved it. And they said “Listen, why don’t you consider doing this for ‘The Weight?'”” It was a chance to make something for him – it’s a chance for Sebastian to promote a legacy for his father, and for us to take an amazing song around the world with a legend.
He’s so proud of it. He told me the other day that it was a dream come true for him to see it. All the musicians on it really moved him, to see how his music is able to travel all over the world. A musician like Mermans Mosengo; he comes from the Congo. He was smuggled out of the Congo in an empty oil tanker to get to South Africa, where he became a refugee. A musician like that plays music to stay alive.
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