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Listen Up!

Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, R.E.M., The Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits

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Listen Up!

By: Mark Howard, Chris Howard
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field.

Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award-winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential book for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world's most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound.

Listen Up! is both production guide and exclusive backstage pass into the lives of some of the planet's most iconic musicians. Writing with his brother Chris Howard, Mark Howard provides a rare glimpse into the normally invisible, almost secretive side of the music story: that of the producer and recording engineer.

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The story was ok, but seemed to be a lot of name dropping, and with the narrator reading the story in 1970's trying too hard to be cool tone of voice, it really wrecked it for me. I have another book read by the same narrator in the same way and he wrecked that book, too.

Ditch the narrator!

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Irt was great to hear an enginer producer who actualy understands its about the artist and the songs. You can hear in his writing then genuin respect nd over all excitement and feelings of privelage to have been able to work with such incredibly creative people

what a great book

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I really enjoyed the book for its casual conversational style. It is like sitting down with Mark and having a long conversation.

Always interesting from an other side

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Hard to take the book seriously when the narrator keeps giving funny voices to all the people. I swear there is a part where he impersonates Bono, chickens out on doing an irish accent and ends up sounding like a pirate.

The book itself reads like a bunch of cocktail reception stories. "Did I tell you about the time that Matt Damon crashed the studio with a bunch of other celebrities? Oh this one is good..." not bad, but a bit repetitive over the course of 25 chapters.

didn't really feel like I was learning anything, rather sat in a studio talking to an easily distracted engineer...

Stop doing impressions...

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The technical details are fascinating. Some stories about the artists are interesting.

It would’ve sounded better if the narrator wasn’t channeling Tom Cruise from his motivational speech in Magnolia.

It would’ve been better if the author wasn’t spraining his shoulder congratulating himself.

I wish Daniel Lanois’ book was available instead of this garbage.

But still. Two stars for technical details.

Diary of a D-bag

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It was difficult to deal with the lack of feeling or emotion and general monotony of the reading.

Poor performance

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