Phill Brown's Are We Still Rolling?: Studios, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll - PDF

By Phill Brown

(Book). From the author's first glimpse of a paranormal recording studio within the mid-1960s up via a hectic profession that maintains to the current day, this rollicking tale can basically learn through those who werethere. because the younger tape operator on classes for the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Cocker on the famed Olympic Sound Studios in London, Phill discovered the ropes from skilled engineers and manufacturers equivalent to Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer. Phill quickly labored his means up engineering periods for Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley and plenty of different lendary rockers. He finally grew to become a contract engineer/producer and labored with Roxy song, move West, speak speak, and Robert Plant. yet greater than a recollection of partaking in one of the most valuable tune of the prior forty years, it is a man's trip via existence as Phill struggles to stability his domestic and relatives with a task the place drug abuse, chaos, rampant egos, greed, lies and the more and more invasive list enterprise take their toll. it is also a cautionary story, the place lengthy workdays and what as soon as gave the impression of innocuous indulgences turn into well-being dangers, but ultimately provide a time to mirror again on.

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