This is a backstage pass into the lives of some of the planet’s most iconic musicians. Moreover, it’s a rare glimpse into the normally invisible, almost secretive, side of the music story: that of the producer and recording engineer. These pages will take you to a star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award winners in which Iggy Pop shows up to record clad in see-through plastic pants, no underwear, and Bob Dylan will only record at night. You’ll learn about Tom Waits’s strange vocabulary — and what “put a little hair on it” really means — and discover that because Neil Young will only work on the three days before a full moon, it takes six months to make his record.
This is also a production guide for anyone interested in music, providing an understanding of the equipment used in making the world’s most unforgettable records and explaining the methods needed to get the very best sound. Each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips, including inside stories about the making of great albums.
Upon accepting his Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Bob Dylan thanked me, saying, “We got a particular type of sound on this record which you don’t get every day.”
For the first time, readers can learn how.