Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles , Eric Clapton, the Faces . . .

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Recent works include Band of Horses, Benmont Tench, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, and an upcoming Eric Clapton album. He only cut several singles as a solo artist (in the 1960s) and did not make any albums in that capacity. As it stands, the pace he sets of moving from studio to studio, project to project, is a successful one, and I’m not sure the book would have benefited from any more time spent on his life outside of the studio. In 2012, legendary producer and sound engineer Glyn Johns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Glyn Johns was the most sought after sound engineer at the time when the recording industry was just exploding in the early 60s in London. the book is more observational than judgmental and that is why it will be a great read for sound and music enthusiasts and less so for those more interested in celebrity.Stunningly, he claims to have avoided drugs his entire life, and he has almost no patience for the hard drug lifestyle he surely spent his life surrounded by. No surprise here, but the NAMM Show is moving to an all online experience this year due to COVID-19.

Johns recounts that his first session as chief engineer was for a recording by Joe Brown, which was produced by Tony Hatch. David Geffen had to convince Johns to produce the band as he admits being bored seeing the Flying Burrito Brothers (featuring Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon) perform. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.Felton Rapley, considered one of the leading pipe organists in the UK at the time, became the choirmaster, and as Johns progressed, Johns was given occasional solos and eventually rose to head chorister at the age of eleven. Glyn Joh ns - Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces. Glyn does contest the notion he was picked by The Beatles to produce the session over George Martin because he had a union card to work on a movie. I have been extremely fortunate in witnessing firsthand some wonderful moments with some truly fantastic, innovative artists while making records as an engineer and producer over the last fifty years, and watching the creative process change into something almost unrecognizable from where I started.

This format isn’t going to appeal to all readers, but I imagine this is how his career and life felt to him. He later went on to produce and engineer with the Who throughout the next decade on albums such as Who's Next (1971), The Who by Numbers (1975), and It's Hard (1983). which is stunning and sometimes hilarious in the level of detail it captures in recording equipment used at a session. Johns was a keen observer of talent, though as he admits he often got it wrong, as when he whiffed on the greatness of Eric Clapton and Joe Strummer. In this entertaining and observant memoir, Johns takes us on a tour of his world during the heady years of the sixties, with beguiling stories that will delight music fans the world over, such as when he had to bail the Steve Miller Band out of jail on their second day in London, his impressions of John and Yoko during the Abbey Road sessions, or running into Bob Dylan at JFK and being asked by Dylan to work on a collaborative album with him, the Stones, and the Beatles, which never came to pass.After the group's breakup, guitarist and lead vocalist Steve Marriot formed Humble Pie, whose membership included Peter Frampton—Johns produced engineered their third and fourth albums, Humble Pie [77] and Rock On.