Editing Aztec Camera (section)

===WEA Records and ''Knife'' (1984–1987)===
After ''High Land Hard Rain'', Bernie Clarke left the band, and was replaced by [[Malcolm Ross (musician)|Malcolm Ross]] on second guitar and backing vocals.  Aztec Camera changed record labels once again for the release of their second album, ''[[Knife (album)|Knife]]'', which was released through [[Warner Records|WEA]] (Warner Music Group). Frame revealed in a May 2014 BBC radio interview that he was not informed of the ownership arrangements of the record deal, stating that he was unaware as an 18-year-old that the record company would own the rights to all of his corresponding recordings.<ref name="Tom" /> After ''High Land, Hard Rain'', Frame spent a significant amount of time living in [[New Orleans]], United States (US), listening to [[Bob Dylan]]'s album [[Infidels (Bob Dylan album)|''Infidels'']]. Upon reading that [[Dire Straits]]' guitarist and singer [[Mark Knopfler]] produced the album, Frame began writing songs based on a sound that he thought Knopfler could work with.<ref name="Pop" />

Frame signed the band to the [[Warner Records|WEA]] record label—at the time his manager was Rob Johnson<ref name="Clyde">{{cite web|author1=Billy Sloan |title=Roddy Frame session |url=http://www.clyde2.com/on-air/billy-sloan/roddy-frame-session/ |website=Clyde 2 |publisher=Bauer Radio Limited |access-date=21 June 2014 |format=Audio upload |date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160922/http://www.clyde2.com/on-air/billy-sloan/roddy-frame-session/ |archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref>—and secured Knopfler as the producer for Aztec Camera's second album, ''[[Knife (album)|Knife]]'', which was released in 1984;<ref name="Pop">{{cite web|title="Anyone Can Do It, So We Did": An Interview With Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/179268-anyone-can-do-it-so-we-did-an-interview-with-roddy-frame-of-aztec-ca/|work=Pop Matters|publisher=PopMatters Media, Inc|access-date=17 April 2014|author=Kevin Korber|date=20 February 2014}}</ref> Frame explained in 1988 that Knopfler was "professional" and efficient during the recording process.<ref name="Meg"/> Frame's experimental mindset in relation to music emerged on ''Knife'', as the duration of the [[wikt:titular|titular]] song is nearly nine minutes and synthesizers appear throughout the album. Prior to the album's release, the band previewed a selection of songs as part of a performance for the [[BBC]] television show ''Rock Around the Clock''<ref>{{cite web|title=Aztec Camera – Rock Around The Clock 1984|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52coAtV5UFo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/52coAtV5UFo |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=Steve Kay on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|access-date=5 July 2014|format=Vide upload|date=21 January 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and the song "All I Need is Everything" received radio airplay subsequent to release.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aztec Camera : Knife|url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/Article.aspx?id=6758|work=Penny Black Music|access-date=17 April 2014|author=Malcolm Carter|date=6 December 2012}}</ref> In a 2007 interview alongside Collins, Frame explained further:

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He's [Knopfler] a great guitarist. Mark Knopfler's recording techniques were great—you [Collins] would have liked him, 'cos that was ... then, it was quite a thing. 'Cos everyone was going digital, and going MIDI and all that, and his thing was all about using the right microphone. If you use the right microphone, then you don't have to use too much EQ and all that stuff, and it was all about that. Yeah, I kinda liked that—the right mic[rophone], the right amp[lifier], the right kind of board and stuff.<ref>{{cite web|title=01 Edwyn Collins Podcast (with Roddy Frame) from 2007|url=https://soundcloud.com/user4708889/01-edwyn-collins-podcast-with|website=Kalavas1 on SoundCloud|publisher=SoundCloud|access-date=5 July 2014|format=Audio upload|date=June 2012}}</ref></blockquote>