Thirty years behind the glass : from Otis Redding and Stax Records to Santana's Supernatural / Jim Gaines as told to Lee Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Lee, author.

Contributor:

Gaines, Jim, interviewee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaines, Jim.

Sound engineers--United States--Biography.

Sound engineers.

Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.

Sound recording executives and producers.

Popular music--Production and direction--United States--History--20th century.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

vii, 184 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

30 years behind the glass

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In a recording career spanning some fifty years, bridging a range in time and style that reaches from the early days at Memphis's Stax Records to Carlos Santana's eight-Grammy year in 2000 and beyond, producer Jim Gaines has operated the mixing board for some of the greatest artists in American music. Journey, Huey Lewis and the News, Steve Miller, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Dionne Warwick are just a few of the influential musicians who have entrusted their creativity and talent to his proven abilities. With several Grammys and multiple platinum-selling albums to his credit, Jim Gaines still remembers the day-April 4, 1968-that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Hearing the sirens and seeing the smoke rising from the downtown Memphis skyline, Gaines remembers loading tapes from Stax studio that night into various employees' vehicles to be taken away for safekeeping until the unrest in the city subsided. Near the other end of his career, Gaines recalls receiving a phone call during a break in the session at Willie Nelson's studio near Austin, where he was recording demo tracks for the rising Texas group, Los Lonely Boys. The date was September 11, 2001. Once again, there would be no more recording completed that day. In this wide-ranging collection of personal interviews and reminiscences, Gaines, with the help of author Lee Zimmerman, offers readers the priceless opportunity to sit down with a true music industry veteran and hear a lifetime's worth of stories from inside the studio"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Memphis Is Burning! April 4, 1968

2. Humble Beginnings: 1960

1968

3. On the Tracks with Stax: 1960s

4. From Stax to TMI: 1968

1970

5. San Francisco Beckons: 1970

6. A Period of Proficiency: 1970

7. Settled in Seattle: 1973

1974

8. Sleepless in Seattle: 1974

1975

9. Hightailing It Back to Heider's: 1975

1976

10. Making Music with Miller: 1976

1978

11. Arriving at the Automatt: 1979

12. Return to Grants Pass: 1979

1980

13. Back to the Bay: 1980

1981

14. Scoring with Santana: 1980

15. Returning to the Record Plant: 1981

1982

16. More Plant Pursuits: 1981

17. Getting the News: 1983

18. The End of an Era ... and the Beginning of a New One: 1984

19. A New Journey

-with Journey: 1984

1985

20. Here Come the Feds: 1985

21. More Hits from Huey: 1986

22. The ABCs of KBC: 1986

23. A New Owner at the Record Plant: 1986

24. Getting in the Groove with the Neville Brothers: 1987

25. A Holler from Hornsby: 1988

26. Working with Melissa Etheridge: 1988

27. Dueling Doobies: 1988

28. Farewell to Frisco: 1988

29. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: 1989

30. A King Comes Calling: 1989

31. Minding Time in Memphis: 1989

32. Seeing the Sights in Europe: 1990

33. A Great Dane: 1991

34. Bonding with Blues Traveler, Grooving with Gales: 1991

35. Collaborating with Collins: 1992

36. El Tri, Triumphant: 1995

1997

37. The Late and Great Luther Allison: 1994

38. Soaring with Santana: 1989

1999

39. Santana Grabs Some Grammys: 1991

2000

40. More Sizzle with Santana: Reviewing the 1990s

41. When Things Go Wrong: More Memories from the 1990s

42. Here Come the Blues

-the Best of the Rest: 1989

Present

43. And Here We Are Today.

ISBN:

9781648431005

1648431003

OCLC:

1309077423