Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles , Eric Clapton, the Faces . . .

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Now the 72-year-old Brit has written Sound Man, his engaging and wryly amusing memoirs, with fascinating snapshots of the legends he has worked with. By 1974, singer/guitarist Glenn Frey and drummer/vocalist Don Henley gained control of the band, [122] and sought a more hard-rocking approach. The group came to England to record their debut album, Children of the Future, at Olympic with Johns as engineer. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. Both Mick and Keith would take an active part in the mixing process and drove me nuts making me mix a track for hours when I felt I had got it in the first couple of passes.

In 1966, Johns and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones formed Freeway Music, a management and production company. Bob got closer to his wish with the Traveling Wiburys… My question is why Mick and Paul would not even consider it. Glyn Johns’ autobiography, Sound Man, is a treasure trove of recording stories for pros and rock fans.

Above it on the wall were eight loudspeakers that were about the size and thickness of a large ham and cheese sandwich. How do things look to you these days, with the music industry and recording — especially our end of it? The younger Johns had followed his brother's footsteps becoming an engineer, [2] in the late 1960s under the tutelage of Eddie Kramer (while Kramer was recording Jimi Hendrix), [65] and went on to work with artists such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Television, and Van Halen. He is the author of two books, "Crank It Up: Live Sound Secrets of the Top Tour Engineers," and "Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera. He quit working with The Rolling Stones multiple times because they wouldn’t focus in the studio, leaving him endlessly waiting for them to get it together.

Title: Sound Man( A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones the Who Led Zeppelin the Eagles Eric Clapton the Faces . All told, Glyn — who wrote that “I felt like I’d won the lottery” when he got the job to work the Get Back sessions — spent about 25 pages of his book’s 286 pages on working with The Beatles (including a couple on his first experience working with the group, as second engineer on the 1964 TV special “Around the Beatles”). GLYN JOHNS was the producer or engineer of a number of rock's classic albums, including those by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, the Who, the Beatles, the Clash, and such singular artists as Joan Armatrading and Ryan Adams.Sound Man will make readers aware of the many sides of Glyn Johns, a giant of a man and one of my best friends from the moment we met in 1963 to present day. The book was the first time I've ever really used the press for a purpose, and I was trying to sell my book.