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Behind the Boards: Nashville

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : Behind the Boards
ISBN 13 : 9781733025102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Boards: Nashville written by Jake Brown and published by Behind the Boards. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a County Music fan, you've seen glimpses perhaps of it on TV shows like Nashville and movies like Walk the Line, but never before have fans of music's biggest-selling genre been invited inside the heart of the creative nerve centers where their favorite # 1 hits are brought to life, the recording studio Inside the pages of BEHIND THE BOARDS: NASHVILLE, Country music fans for the first time ever are given a front-row seat inside Music Row's most famous recording studios on tours narrated by the town's BIGGEST record producers. Regaling readers with exclusive, first-hand stories behind the recording of generations of the biggest # chart-toppers by Country's biggest stars, including LUKE BRYAN, TAYLOR SWIFT, TIM McGRAW, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, LADY ANTEBELLUM, JASON ALDEAN, FAITH HILL, SAM HUNT, MIRANDA LAMBERT, KEITH URBAN, THE BAND PERRY, THOMAS RHETT, MAREN MORRIS, CHRIS STAPLETON, KACEY MUSGRAVES, FLORIDA/GEORGIA LINE, THE RASCALL FLATTS, JIMMY BUFFETT, MARTINA McBRIDE, ALABAMA, SARA EVANS, DAN + SHAY, RAYLYNNE, BLAKE SHELTON, DOLLY PARTON, COLE SWINDELL, REBA McENTYRE, ZAC BROWN BAND, KENNY CHESNEY, BRAD PAISLEY, OLD DOMINION, ERIC CHURCH, and countless more This V.I.P. tour for readers inside Nashville's biggest studios and the recording careers of Country Music's biggest stars and producers will be a sure hit with everyone from Millennials to Old-School Country fans

Nashville Songwriter

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1940363179
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Songwriter written by Jake Brown and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard them on the radio, listened to them on repeat for days, and sang along at the top of your lungs—but have you ever wondered about the real stories behind all your favorite country songs? Nashville Songwriter gives readers the first completely authorized collection of the true stories that inspired hits by the biggest multi-platinum country superstars of the last half century—recounted by the songwriters themselves. Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown gives readers an unprecedented, intimate glimpse inside the world of country music songwriting. Featuring exclusive commentary from country superstars and chapter-length interviews with today's biggest hit-writers on Music Row, this book chronicles the stories behind smash hits such as: Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind" Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying," "Southern Voice," and "Real Good Man" George Jones's "Tennessee Whiskey" Carrie Underwood's "Jesus Take the Wheel" and "Cowboy Casanova" Brooks & Dunn's "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" Lady Antebellum's "We Owned the Night" and "Just a Kiss" Brad Paisley's "Mud on the Tires," "We Danced," and "I'm Still a Guy" Luke Bryan's "Play It Again," "Crash My Party," and "That's My Kind of Night" The Oak Ridge Boys's "American Made" George Strait's "Ocean Front Property" and "The Best Day," Rascal Flatts's "Fast Cars and Freedom," and "Take Me There" Kenny Chesney's "Living in Fast Forward" and "When the Sun Goes Down" Ricochet's "Daddy's Money" Montgomery Gentry's "If You Ever Stop Loving Me" The Crickets's "I Fought the Law" Tom T. Hall's "A Week in a County Jail" and "That Song Is Driving Me Crazy" Trace Adkins's "You're Gonna Miss This" David Lee Murphy's "Dust on the Bottle" Jason Aldean's "Big Green Tractor" and "Fly Over States" And many more top country hits over the past 40 years!

Behind the Boards

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480329762
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Boards written by Jake Brown and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). The term "soundtrack of our lives" is one commonly tossed around by artists, fans, critics, and historians in discussing rock 'n' roll's timeless hits, spanning every subgenre, from pop to hard rock, heavy metal to new wave. In the pages of Behind the Boards: The Making of Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest Records Revealed , the first definitive rock record-producers' anthology of its kind, readers are taken inside the studio, into the creation of the generations of classic records that collectively make up that soundtrack of our lives. The book appeals to both fans and academic audiences interested in the art of sound recording/record producing, providing a rich demographic spread of potential niche and mainstream markets. This is the first definitive record-producers' anthology to cross every one of rock's subgenres, featuring intimate, first-hand accounts of how the making of many of rock 'n' roll's greatest hits were created, via exclusive interviews with the producers who recorded them. Some of the songs discussed are "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd, "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "Beautiful Day" by U2, "One" by Metallica, "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC, "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys, "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction, "Sledge Hammer" by Peter Gabriel, and "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith, among countless others by legends like Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, the Pixies, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Journey, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Sting, Tom Waits, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink, John Mellencamp, the Black Crowes, New Order, Ministry, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, and many more.

Nashville Songwriter, Volume 2

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983471684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Songwriter, Volume 2 written by Jake Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville's best-kept secret has long been that the majority of country music's biggest hits are written by a Shakespearean behind-the-scenes club of Music Row songsmiths who have churned out many of country's most beloved classics over the past fifty years. Picking up with Volume II of the first-of-its-kind "NASHVILLE SONGWRITER" book series, country music fans get more behind-the-scenes V.I.P. access as this book series reveals the first TOTALLY AUTHORIZED telling of the true stories that inspired hundreds of # 1s by a collective roster of the biggest multi-platinum Country Superstars. With 300+ # 1 hits covered throughout the 300+ page book, including many of today's hottest Country Music hits, including recent Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, George Strait, Florida/Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett, Thomas Rhett, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Jones, Zac Brown Band, Toby Keith, Cole Swindell, Johnny Lee, Loretta Lynn, Jerry Reed, Vince Gill, Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, the Dixie Chicks, Rodney Atkins, Rhett Akins, Luke Bryan, Dustin Lynch, Alan Jackson, Lee Anne Womack, Martina McBride, Gary Evans, etc.

Behind the Curtain

Author : Gregory D. Booth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019971665X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Curtain written by Gregory D. Booth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name "Bollywood," but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, "behind the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular music genres. Now, Gregory D. Booth offers a compelling account of the Bollywood film music industry from the perspective of the musicians who both experienced and shaped its history. In a rare insider's look at the process of musical production from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s, before the advent of digital recording technologies, Booth explains who these unknown musicians were and how they came to join the film music industry. On the basis of a fascinating set of first-hand accounts from the musicians themselves, he reveals how the day-to-day circumstances of technology and finance shaped both the songs and the careers of their creator and performers. Booth also unfolds the technological, cultural, and industrial developments that led to the enormous studio orchestras of the 1960s-90s as well as the factors which ultimately led to their demise in contemporary India. Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.

Rick Rubin

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554904404
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Rick Rubin written by Jake Brown and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no greater enigma than Rick Rubin working in record production today. As mysterious personally as the Buddhist religion he practices, Rubin has made one thing crystal clear: the records he produces are sonically and stylistically beyond reproach. MTV has called Rubin the most important producer of the last 20 years, while Rolling...

The Nashville Way

Author : Benjamin Houston
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343269
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Nashville Way written by Benjamin Houston and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited. Civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Lawson who came into their own in Nashville were devoted to nonviolent direct action, or what Houston calls the “black Nashville Way.” Through the dramatic story of Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, Houston shows how these activists used nonviolence to disrupt the coercive script of day-to-day race relations. Nonviolence brought the threat of its opposite—white violence—into stark contrast, revealing that the Nashville Way was actually built on a complex relationship between etiquette and brute force. Houston goes on to detail how racial etiquette forged in the era of Jim Crow was updated in the civil rights era. Combined with this updated racial etiquette, deeper structural forces of politics and urban renewal dictate racial realities to this day. In The Nashville Way, Houston shows that white power was surprisingly adaptable. But the black Nashville Way also proved resilient as it was embraced by thousands of activists who continued to fight battles over schools, highway construction, and economic justice even after most Americans shifted their focus to southern hotspots like Birmingham and Memphis.

Tori Amos

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554909708
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Tori Amos written by Jake Brown and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part intimate profile, part detailed discography, this music compilation explores the life and work of Tori Amos, one of the most prolific alternative rock artists of the past few decades. Known for her piano-driven music and emotional, intense lyrics that delve into such topics as sexuality, religion, and personal tragedy, Amos has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. The artistic process behind the creation of these albums is revealed through exclusive interviews with people who worked alongside her in the studioone of her producers, sound engineers, and backing band membersand included is an analysis of her choice to break away from the traditional rules of the recording industry and forge her own path and musical identity. From her days as a young piano prodigy and her first band to her many years as a solo artist and her extensive touring and recording, the in-depth research into the personal influence behind Amoss music complements the chronicle of her professional career.

Kanye West in the Studio

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : Amber Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780976773566
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Kanye West in the Studio written by Jake Brown and published by Amber Books Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the career of Kanye West, focusing on the years between 2000 and 2006 and discussing his influence as a producer, rapper, and performer. Includes photographs and discography.

The Monopolists

Author : Mary Pilon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405717
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Monopolists written by Mary Pilon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily--and richly--ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game--underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today--was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust. A gripping social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.

Lemmy and Motörhead

Author : Jake Brown
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre
ISBN 13 : 1786061244
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Lemmy and Motörhead written by Jake Brown and published by Bonnier Zaffre. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the founding fathers of heavy metal, Lemmy Kilmister's musical legacy can never be forgotten despite his death in December 2015. As their frontman, songwriter and bassist, Ian Fraser 'Lemmy' Kilmister was truly the beating heart of Mot�rhead. The group's energy and thrilling fusion of genres led to sales of over 30 million albums, Grammy Awards and giant world tours right up until Lemmy's death. During his life, Lemmy granted music writer Jake Brown extraordinary access to the band, and this book explores Mot�rhead's creativity and musicianship with unique insight from their writing and recording sessions alongside exclusive interviews. This new edition now stands as a unique testament to Lemmy's remarkable career and the indelible mark he left on heavy metal.

Dust & Grooves

Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607748703
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dust & Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Billboard

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-23 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Nashville Cats

Author : Travis D. Stimeling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197502830
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Cats written by Travis D. Stimeling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nashville Cats bounced from studio to studio along the city's Music Row, delivering instrumental backing tracks for countless recordings throughout the mid-20th century. Music industry titans like Chet Atkins, Anita Kerr, and Charlie McCoy were among this group of extraordinarily versatile session musicians who defined the era of the "Nashville Sound," and helped establish the city of Nashville as the renowned hub of the record industry it is today. Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City is the first account of these talented musicians and the behind-the-scenes role they played to shape the sounds of country music. Many of the genre's most celebrated artists-Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Floyd Cramer, and others immortalized in the Country Music Hall of Fame and musicians from outside the genre's ranks, like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, heard the call of the Nashville Sound and followed it to the city's studios, recording song after song that resonated with the brilliance of the Cats. Author Travis D. Stimeling investigates how the Nashville system came to be, how musicians worked within it, and how the desires of an ever-growing and diversifying audience affected the practices of record production. Drawing on a rich array of recently uncovered primary sources and original oral histories,Âinterviews with key players, and close exploration of hit songs, Nashville Cats brings us back into the studios of this famous era, right alongside the remarkable musicians who made it happen.

Molto Agitato

Author : Johanna Fiedler
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400032318
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molto Agitato written by Johanna Fiedler and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.

Strange Beautiful Music

Author : Joe Satriani
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1939529654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Strange Beautiful Music written by Joe Satriani and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called "a guitar God!" Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genre of instrumental guitar rock. Joe's 6-string secrets have astounded listeners around the world for nearly 30 years. In Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir, Satriani and coauthor, music biographer Jake Brown, take fans on their first authorized tour of the story behind his climb to stardom and the creative odyssey involved in writing and recording a storied catalog of classics including "Surfing with the Alien," "Summer Song," "Satch Boogie," "Always With Me, Always With You," "The Extremist," "Flying in a Blue Dream," "Crowd Chant," and more. Featuring previously unpublished photos and hours of exclusive, firsthand interviews with Satriani, Strange Beautiful Music offers a unique look inside the studio with Joe, giving fans a chance to get up close and personal like never before. With insider details about his collaboration with multi-platinum supergroup Chickenfoot, exclusive interviews with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, commentary from fellow guitar legends such as Steve Vai, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Primus's Larry LaLonde, and legendary music producers including Glynn Johns and the late Andy Johns, this memoir offers a rare inside look for die-hard Satriani fans, guitar enthusiasts, and anyone who loves to rock.

Chairman at the Board

Author : Bill Schnee
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 9781493065158
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Chairman at the Board written by Bill Schnee and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio--behind the curtain--and through the decades with a cavalcade of famous artists as he helped them realize their vision. After his high school band was dropped by Decca Records, Schnee began his quest to learn everything he could about making records. Mentored by technical guru Toby Foster, mastering guru Doug Sax, and recording legend Richie Podolor at his American Recording Studio, he immediately began recording the top acts of the day as a freelance engineer/producer in Hollywood. Clive Davis soon hired him to work for CBS where he partnered with famed music producer Richard Perry. Schnee went on to record and/or mix many of Perry's biggest albums of the '70s and '80s, including those by Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Art Garfunkel, and The Pointer Sisters. With his deft personal touch with musicians, he continued to engineer and/or produce the likes of Marvin Gaye, Thelma Houston (the Grammy-nominated, direct-to-disc album I've Got the Music in Me), Pablo Cruise, Neil Diamond, Boz Scaggs, the Jacksons, Huey Lewis and the News, Dire Straits, and Whitney Houston. With over 125 gold and platinum records, and two Grammys for Steely Dan's Aja and Gaucho, Schnee has been called a living legend--recognized and respected in the industry as the consummate music man with an incomparable career that he lovingly shares with his readers in humorous detail.