I might never have written a note were it not for the bands Jim Dickinson worked with – Big Star, The Replacements, The Stones.  I know I never would have learned to record myself if it weren’t for him.

I never had a nice couch, but I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening back in the control room, head back, exhausted, wondering, listening, hoping. Jim Dickinson’s ideas, arrangements, and outright theft of so many great records probably inspired me more than Michael Jackson or Les Paul combined. RIP Jim. You’ll be missed.