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'...This book's diary format takes the reader on a tour through 30-odd memorable recording sessions with a mix of legendary and obscure artists...' --Record Collector, May 2011
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From the author's first glimpse of a magical recording studio in the mid-1960s up through a busy career that continues to the present day, this rollicking story can only be told by those that werethere. As the young tape operator on sessions for The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Cocker at the famed Olympic Sound Studios in London, Phill learned the ropes from experienced engineers and producers such as Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer. Phill soon worked his way up engineering sessions for Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley and many other lendary rockers.He eventually became a freelance engineer/producer and worked with Roxy Music, Go West, Talk Talk, and Robert Plant. But more than a recollection of participating in some of the most treasured music of the past 40 years, this is a man's journey through life as Phill struggles to balance his home and family with a job where drug abuse, chaos, rampant egos, greed, lies and the increasingly invasive record business take their toll. It's also a cautionary tale, where long workdays and whatonce seemed like harmless indulgences become health risks, yet eventually offer a time to reflect back on.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Phill Brown gives a potted history from 40 odd years working with some of the biggest bands from The Rolling Stones (back when they were good), via John Martyn to Dido more recently. Almost everyone will have some of the albums that he writes about and whenever I could I was listening to the album as I read about how it was made. John Martyn and Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden/ Laughing Stock) were particularly memorable.
For anyone who makes music this is a fascinating collection of stories, especially since the days of hiring big recording studios for weeks or months at a time are all but gone now.
For anyone who makes music this is a fascinating collection of stories, especially since the days of hiring big recording studios for weeks or months at a time are all but gone now.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I almost met Phill once having been in the fortunate position of being at his daughters wedding due to me having played in a band with his son-in-law, but due to my shyness and he having much more important things on his mind we never did meet & chat about his past.
No matter as Are We Still Rolling? gives you an insight into the recording, engineering and innovative technical wizardry behind some of the most seminal albums of the 60, 70, 80 & 90s, and also the role that the studio engineer actually plays that more than often goes without credit.
Phill's attention to detail in the book covers equipment used & the positioning of mike's to individual artists height, which made me smile and also the stress, long hours and fun that can be had in a recording studio environment. Certain aspects show a comic/tragic element to Phill's life when at one point after working for a year with Talk Talk during which he had little contact with family, the outside world or reality in general he finally goes home and asks his family to listen to "... what I have been up to for the last year ...". When it finished nobody said a word and life went on as normal.
I was pleasantly surprised at how many great albums I have that Phill has played a part in, from Jeff Beck and Traffic to John Martyn and Throwing Muses but Phill's insight inspired me to download album's by Talk Talk and Murray Head who I had previously never heard of.
If you are a music collector, musician or reader of Biography/Autobiographies like me then I highly recommend "Are We Still Rolling?".
No matter as Are We Still Rolling? gives you an insight into the recording, engineering and innovative technical wizardry behind some of the most seminal albums of the 60, 70, 80 & 90s, and also the role that the studio engineer actually plays that more than often goes without credit.
Phill's attention to detail in the book covers equipment used & the positioning of mike's to individual artists height, which made me smile and also the stress, long hours and fun that can be had in a recording studio environment. Certain aspects show a comic/tragic element to Phill's life when at one point after working for a year with Talk Talk during which he had little contact with family, the outside world or reality in general he finally goes home and asks his family to listen to "... what I have been up to for the last year ...". When it finished nobody said a word and life went on as normal.
I was pleasantly surprised at how many great albums I have that Phill has played a part in, from Jeff Beck and Traffic to John Martyn and Throwing Muses but Phill's insight inspired me to download album's by Talk Talk and Murray Head who I had previously never heard of.
If you are a music collector, musician or reader of Biography/Autobiographies like me then I highly recommend "Are We Still Rolling?".
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A fascinating and hugely entertaining insight into the world of studios and music making by one of the great engineers/producers of our time. Highly recommended reading for anyone involved in studios and bands.
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So damned good I don't want to finish it
This book was recommended to me by a friend who has been involved in the music business. He thought I'd particularly like it for the pages on Traffic and Steve Winwood, my... Read more
Published 1 month ago by David M. Briffa
Brilliant book!
One of the best books of this type I have ever read. What an amazing life you have led Phill!
Published 11 months ago by panhead
Pure pleasure
If you have ever read Sound on Sound magazine, you will devour this. Understated writing, and did that thing great rock books do - made me race off to get the albums. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Goggy
Fascinating and unsensationalist
Only halfway through but felt compelled to review. Really gives a flavour of what it meant to be doing that job at that time, and to live in that era/scene. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Devon Ape
Interesting stuff
If you have an interest in studio recording coupled with a love of good Rock and Pop from the late 60"s to the Nineties (and indeed the more recent past), then this book is right... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Alisdair Fleming
been there, done that and he actually has the t-shirts to prove it...
and I may be a little biased. Phill Brown has engineered and co-produced our last five Spikedrivers albums and that's because we already knew he was the best. Read more
Published 13 months ago by C
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