Argh...what was he about to say about Hal Lindes @ 1:06:48? 
Sounds like it was edited out.
I agree this part of the interview sounds like it was cut just at the point he was about to talk aboit why Hal departed during the BIA recording. Sounds like the story wasnt heading in a happy direction and Terry, who comes across as a very professional person, didn't feel it was his place to talk about Hals departure in an interview. I think we can infer from this though Hals exit may not have been a happy one.
I have now listened to the interview a couple of times.
Like I have said, Terry comes across as a very professional operator in terms of the way he deals with recording scenarios and BIA is no exception.
In terms of his role in Brothers In Arms, what is clear is that the recording process was essentially a new way of working for all involved. As Terry mentions in the interview, this was the first digital recording made by a band and the Sony digital recorders had to be shipped in from the States. What is also clear now is that the album was constructed around a 'timecode' or digital 'click track' (ditigal metronome). This enabled the synthesisers and sequencers (also pretty new at that time), through MIDI to link into the recording process and record in time, and trigger musical events or sequences.
Up to that time, the role of the drummer was to set the tempo for the song. But emerging digital technology could do away with that. So from what it sounds like, a least some of the album was built 'backwards' with drums being added on after guitars, keyboards etc. As Terry describes, he hated this approach of playing to a click track. He was a drummer used to cutting the drums in 'two takes' then walking away. So for him, the recording process of Brothers in Arms must have been very frustrating indeed.
Whilst he says there was no animosity between him and MK, he must have felt at least a little bruised. Particularly when it was Paul Cummins the tour manager who was givent the task of sending him home (and not MK), and even more so when Omar Hakim stepped off the plane that was taking him home, a drummer who Terry himself had spoken of to MK in recent conversations on the subject of New York jazz.
To me this all seems a little harsh, but as Terry says in the interview 'a lot of people probably wouldn't understand the story'. We also have to remember that it wasn't just Terry who was replaced for parts on this record. There are two additional bass guitarists credited on the album, one being Tony Levin (who plays on One World) and the other being Neil Jason (what track does he play on??). We also know that Hal was replaced by Jack Sonni during these sessions. So you could argue that even at this stage we are seeing an MK solo production approach.
Later in the interview we hear that after the end of the BIA tour Terry didn't consider himself to be in a band again, only a session drummer. So he obviously loved his time with Dire Straits, and to me he remains the true drummer of the band in their heyday.
Great interview.
