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| From | "bob" <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Re: Recording the Beatles Book |
| Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:27:54 -0400 |
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From: "Robert Sutliff" <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Recording the Beatles Book
> It depends on how much info you can handle! At over 500 pages of the most
> amazing material about Neumann U-47's, Studer J-37's, Fairchild 660's and
> whatnot, my brain is numb. For me it would be a bargain at twice the
> price.
>
> It is my favorite book about the fab 4 ever but I reckon it's not for
> everyone.
>
> I should mention that the layout is superb, the printing very nice and
> there are many, many never before published pictures of the Beatles and
> the equipment they used. Apparently Geoff Emerick didn't help out very
> much, but pretty much everyone else involed with EMI and Abbey Road
> Studios back then did. Ken Scott has been pushing this book to anyone
> who'll listen for over a year now, and Norman Smith, Ken Townsend, Brian
> Gibson and Phil McDonald were very much involved.
>
> In spite of the very technical information imparted it is wrtten in a
> manner that is very easy to understand. I am amazed at how much they were
> able ot accomplish with so little of what we in the recording world take
> for granted these days.
>
> It's not really a book about the personalities of the Beatles but I'm sure
> you will understand their interpersonal relationships much better after
> reading the book
>
> Bobby Sutliff
>
> Ps - I watched that Youtube video of the Beatles doing Ticket To ride live
> at the NME thing. I dare any band in the world to pull that off without
> monitors in front of a few thousand screaming fans.
>
>> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:27:04 -0400
>> From: moteeko@telerama.com
>> To: audities@smoe.org
>> Subject: Recording the Beatles Book
>> Message-ID: <1159216024.45183b98a8370@webmail.telerama.com>
>>
>>
>> I was digging through a massive pile of backlogged email, and ran across
>> some
>> posts on the new Recording the Beatles book.
>>
>> Did any of you folks who ordered one receive it yet, and is it worth the
>> $100?
>> Sure looks like it would be, based on the website info...
>>
>> Greg,
>> playing catsup...
>>
>
>
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