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Sir George Martin
Sir George Martin
I am currently reading, "All You Need is Ears" by the late George Martin. It is just an honest account of his life in the music industry. Good read so far and I haven't even gotten to the part where he meets the Beatles yet.
John Sliz
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
Re: Sir George Martin
Just to follow up on this very good book by saying that I never realized how much the recording industry developed in the 60s. It really was the golden age of modern recording.
John Sliz
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
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Re: Sir George Martin
My husband will be interested in this book. He's an amateur musician and he's followed the development of the recording industry--really a very recent development and a constantly changing one, since it was born out of new technology in the 1920s and has shifted as the means of consuming the media keeps morphing.
To think that only a century ago, if you wanted to hear somebody singing, you had to either travel to within a few hundred yards of the singer, or sing it yourself.
Sometimes I think we are the worse of for not singing more ourselves. In Wales, where singing is much more a part of the culture, almost everybody can carry a tune. I wonder how much longer that will last?
To think that only a century ago, if you wanted to hear somebody singing, you had to either travel to within a few hundred yards of the singer, or sing it yourself.
Sometimes I think we are the worse of for not singing more ourselves. In Wales, where singing is much more a part of the culture, almost everybody can carry a tune. I wonder how much longer that will last?
Re: Sir George Martin
He does get very technical at times about sound and how to best record it. I am pretty sure that I understood it all, but please don't ask me to repeat it. I am sure that your husband will enjoy it. I know I did.
John Sliz
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
http://www.stormboatkings.ca
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
Re: Sir George Martin
I just bought it for him. Don't worry about the technical, in Jay's case, the more arcane, the better. He is the original Geek.