Absolutely phantastic, asthonishingly enough, for me not having heard of this book until now..
After a little bit of practice, I became fairly proficient at splicing and was soon eagerly taping songs off the radio, cutting out the announcer’s intruding voice, and piecing them together in the order I wanted to hear them—much like the process of sequencing an album. Absolutely phantastic, asthonishingly enough, for me not having ...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2016 Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969). Emerick seems to have a great and detailed memory regarding the different engineer approaches to the specific tracks, but is also able to recapture dialogues between the band members and EMI staff. I’d take my time going from booth to booth, watching demonstrations, chatting with the salespeople, trying things out.
He started work at EMI at 16, and, as a trainee, was present for the first Beatles recordings with Ringo in the seat (Love Me Do), and, later, as assistant engineer on the sessions that produced She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand. The only thing was, I didn’t know if it was about to change for the better or the worse. Brilliant; one of the best books I've read about the Beatles - and I've read dozens - that gives a real insider's look. He and I had established the closest relationship since I’d first started working with the band back in 1962.My quiet contemplation was interrupted by George Martin opening the control room door, cup of tea in hand. This is doubly true if you have any interest whatsoever in how music is made and recorded.I loved this book which really surprised me. From DC & Neil Gaiman, The Sandman arises only on Audible. The neighborhood where my parents grew up and met—Clerkenwell, in central London—was being bombed so heavily during the war years that they had been forced to flee and move to my grandmother’s home in the relatively unscathed North London suburb of Crouch End.I was raised in that house, a small Edwardian terrace on a hilly street. Though his brows furrowed for a moment, he nodded his assent. What’s got you so excited?”I was literally jumping up and down, unable to contain myself as I begged her to ask Nan if I could have what I had found.Inside the box were dozens of old gramophone records.
This was the Beatles we were talking about. But to my young eyes, it was a secret inner sanctum that contained untold mysteries, exotic relics of a prewar era I had never known.The war was something that everyone in Britain still talked about in hushed tones. He has won four Grammy Awards, including a Technical Grammy Award in 2003.
We had heard rumors through the studio grapevine that Norman had been lobbying top management for a promotion throughout the Rubber Soul sessions in the fall of 1965, but with a catch: he wanted to be a staff producer for EMI and continue engineering for the Beatles at the same time.George Martin, who was also head of the Parlophone label, put his foot down: that was not going to happen. Perhaps Paul simply wanted someone a bit younger, someone closer in both age and outlook, especially since the band was growing by leaps and bounds musically and starting to experiment more. My jaw dropped. But I soon realized that I had neither the native ability nor the willingness to put in all the hours of training and practice that were required, and the idea faded. Emerick was an engineer on most of the Beatles music at Abbey Road, and later at Apple. Then I replaced the front skin and positioned the bass drum mic directly in front of it, angled down slightly but so close that it was almost touching.I returned to the control room, where the four Beatles were gulping down cups of tea, and unobtrusively turned the mixer’s inputs down so that they wouldn’t overload when Ringo resumed playing. He was there in fact for the first ever Beatle recording and eventually became the sound engineer for all of their later work.
How good were the Beatles, how much of their music was theirs? With Lennon’s words rolling around my brain (“This one’s completely different than anything we’ve ever done before”), I began hearing a drum sound in my head, and I thought I knew how to achieve it. It's just Emerick's tales of life in the studio and how he, the band, and George Martin accomplished what they did.
After describing the hard work and determination it took to follow his dream, Goossens showed a short film of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert. All the engineering tricks and Producer George Martin's techniques are laid bare, like George Martin playing an out of tune piano in sync with George Harrison's guitar solo because Harrison can't nail the solo; the piano synching the exact notes with the guitar blended the sound beautifully, masking the untidy guitar playing (this happened on the guitar solo in the song "A Hard Day's Night"). None of the Beatles escape quite unscathed, but it's nice to see them described as normal moody human beings, and besides, Emerick clearly is bursting with admiration for them.. really brings the music back to life no matter how many times you've heard it, and makes you feel the excitement that was in the studio as they made music history -- especially the chapters on Sgt. It was rare when John gave George the respect he deserved.But my attention was drawn to Paul and Ringo, who were huddled together talking about the drumming. Of course!
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