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Title: Good Vibrations: A History of Record Production by Mark Cunningham, Alan Parson, Brian Eno ISBN: 1860742424 Publisher: Sanctuary Pub Ltd Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: A worthwhile read
Comment: This books is a well-written history of record production. I was impressed at the amount of content for the price.
Rating: 3
Summary: Insightful Look at British Pop
Comment: When I first got a look at the contents and sampled a few pages, I was eager to read this book. Ultimately, I too came to the conclusion that it is too biased towards the British Pop scene.
Not to fault Mark Cunningham, after all he's British, but a lot of the artists he spends time on, have had little impact on the history of record production, at least on this side of the pond.
Ron and Russell Mael? Chris Rea? Slik? Interesting to read about, perhaps, but hardly of the same caliber as Trevor Horn, The Police, Peter Gabriel and U2.
Mainstream American artists such as Fleetwood Mac (yes, American!), Prince, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Springsteen, Toto and The Cars are largely ignored if mentioned at all. Equally absent are prominent American producers, such as Phil Ramone, Russ Titelman, Richard Perry, Jam & Lewis, Reid & Babyface, Nile Rogers and the like.
Still, what it does discuss is interesting. There are whole chapters on The Beatles, Brian Eno and the making of "Bohemian Rhapsody." There are substantial sections devoted to The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," Jeff Lynne, Leiber and Stoller, Motown and Carol Kaye, Joe Meek, "Heroes," and Flood.
There are interesting discussions of the specific technologies used in producing the records. But unfortunately, beyond a certain time period in the book, just at the point where the use of technology gets really interesting in music production, the book fails to explain its influence. For example, one might assume that an Anglophilic book might wax poetic about how automated mixing changed the way records were made and how it was introduced by British mixing desk manufacturers Solid State Logic (SSL) and Neve. Not a word.
I think it would be most useful as a companion to a book that focused mostly on what was happening in the States. But as a general history of Record Production, it is somewhat weak.
I used it as a textbook for a course I teach in Record Production Techniques here at Mercy, but after one semester, I am looking for a replacement text. Perhaps the Wadhams....
Stephen B. Ward
Mecry College, White Plains, NY
Rating: 5
Summary: An Awsome Record History and Production!
Comment: This book is truely an amazing work. It covers so so very much in history of Production and it covers not only whom, what, where but with all the microphones used, names of studios, artists and time, and what happened behind closed doors and why, and so very much more. I highly suggest this to anyone going into recording and into anyone with a love for music. It tells you all the things you want to know!!
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Title: Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios by William Clark, Jim Cogan, Quincy Jones ISBN: 0811833941 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Behind the Glass: Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits by Howard Massey ISBN: 0879306149 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World's Greatest Record Producers and Engineers by Richard Buskin ISBN: 0380807459 Publisher: Spike Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: All You Need Is Ears by George Martin, Jeremy Hornsby ISBN: 0312114826 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Creative Music Production, Joe Meek's Bold Techniques by Barry Cleveland ISBN: 1931140081 Publisher: ArtistPro.com Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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