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Sir George Martin

Posted: Fri April 22nd, 2016, 7:39 pm
by John Sliz
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.

Re: Sir George Martin

Posted: Sat April 30th, 2016, 1:40 pm
by John Sliz
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.

Re: Sir George Martin

Posted: Sat April 30th, 2016, 8:07 pm
by MLE (Emily Cotton)
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?

Re: Sir George Martin

Posted: Sun May 1st, 2016, 6:28 pm
by John Sliz
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.

Re: Sir George Martin

Posted: Sun May 1st, 2016, 8:35 pm
by MLE (Emily Cotton)
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.