Phoenix Guitarist Buys Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Console To Record Band's New Album 'Bankrupt!'
Friday, 08 February 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
French alt-rockers Phoenix may have chosen the perfect name for their new album ‘Bankrupt!’ - after purchasing the same console used for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ to help produce it.
The console was bought - for a hefty $17,000 - by the band’s guitarist and keyboard player Laurent Brancowitz, and was used in the studio at which superstar Michael Jackson created his megahit ‘Thriller’, which is undoubtedly one of the highest-rated albums of all time.
Brancowitz picked the console up on eBay from Clayton Rose, who owns a studio in California. It’s now being shipped to Paris for use in the production of the band’s new album ‘Bankrupt!’, Phoenix’s highly-anticipated fifth studio album set for a release this spring.
Speaking about the purchase to Pitchfork, the band said: “[We purchased the console because] we liked the idea of working with a consecrated artefact, as well as having something strange upon which to fixate between albums.
“The most mysterious part to me was that no one else - no nerd or music engineer or memorabilia freak - seemed to want it. There was something a little spooky about him [Clayton Rose]. He was very pushy. It seemed like a scam.”
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