Simon Kirke

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863 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Nov

Simon Kirke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Buddy Rich.

Honestly.

And I know.

And I met him a couple of times and I was just in awe of him.

But yeah, he had that ball and chain around his leg that he was not a nice guy, but my God, what a player.

And Bonzo, you know, I saw Bonzo many, many times and he floored me with what he did.

But listen, I'll tell you a quick story.

I sat in with Jimmy when he was mixing Coda.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

So he had this lovely studio down in Berkshire.

Berkshire, Berkshire.

And I sat in, and he was mixing, because you know he mixed and produced all the Zephyr albums.

And we're listening to Bonzo.

Wow.

Suddenly he brings up the ambient mics to Sennheiser or Neumann, those lovely Neumann mics.

And instead of... It's like...

So not taking anything from Bonzo, but Jimmy's use of the ambient with the room mics would produce that really crunchy.

The snare, instead of being that, was that.

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