If these halls could talk / by Heather Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Heather, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound recording industry--California--San Francisco--History.

Sound recording industry.

History.

California--San Francisco.

Physical Description:

xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Historical tour through San Francisco recording studios

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Thomson Course Technology, [2006]

Summary:

Rather than a coffee table book or a broad sweep of a musical era, the "History of Recording Studios" will take an in-depth look at San Francisco's colorful and diverse music and music recording history?from jazz and blues to rock, pop, punk, rap and hip hop. History will be conveyed through the eyes and ears of the producers, engineers and studio owners, as well as the artists themselves, who share their S.F. studio experiences and thoughts on recording during a particular time period. It will be full of artist, producer and engineer "profiles" to peak music fans' interests, and will include rare photos of these highly notable acts working in various Bay Area studios. Readers will receive a guided tour through some of San Francisco's top recording studios, and will go behind the scenes of some of popular music's hottest albums?works from Jefferson Starship and the Grateful Dead to Green Day, Train, Third Eye Blind and many more.

Contents:

The fifties through the mid-sixties : the pioneers. The original Coast Recorders ; Commercial Recorders ; Columbus Recorders ; Golden State Recorders ; Early recording around the Bay

The late sixties : the San Francisco sound and studio explosion. A new San Francisco Coast ; Pacific High Recording ; Wally Heider Recording ; Pacific Recording ; Mercury, Columbia, and the launch of The Automatt

The seventies : it's party time. The Record Plant : magical seeds ; Concord Records : past and future ; Different Fur ; Wally Heider Recording hits its stride ; The Automatt : the next cycle ; The Record Plant : new roots ; Recording in and out of the city

The eighties : excess goes high tech. From Heider to Hyde Street ; A public Fantasy ; Eighties outposts ; San Francisco hills and valleys

The nineties : from digital boom to dotcom bust. Coast-to-Coast-to...Toast? ; The Plant : 25 years and counting ; Two dotcom storm survivors

The new millennium : picking up the pieces. The old guard ; New blood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-320) and index.

ISBN:

1598631411

OCLC:

70342041