Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles , Eric Clapton, the Faces . . .

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Sound Man jumps from one session to the next, with scant mention of dates or much other detail to ground the reader. Coats and ties were required to be worn by recording engineers (and white lab coats for technical engineers). At the request of producer Bob Johnston, [116] Johns engineered the live recordings of Bob Dylan's performance backed by the Band at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969, [116] some of which appeared on his 1970 Self Portrait album. Glyn is still clearly moved by the music Zeppelin made in the studio as he was recording them for the first time.

We visited Glyn at his beautiful home in the country south of London, and met a gracious host happy to give us a tour of the gardens and a few hours of his time. He had close relationships with most of the Stones except for Keith Richards (probably due to Johns’ straight demeanor). He engineered several songs by Australia's the Easybeats, [108] including their 1967 hit " Friday on My Mind", which was produced by Shel Talmy. Much of the book deals with his work for The Rolling Stones but he’s got plenty to say about artists he did little work for, like The Band and Little Feat. Following the process by which he turned to engineering and mixing and producing really was perhaps the most interesting part of this book.m. Then to Apple again in the afternoon before going on to the Albert Hall that evening to record Jimi Hendrix in concert.

I remember Terry and me looking at each other with great relief, as we had imagined that we were in for a great struggle, not knowing how the hell the sound was achieved. To any classic rock radio program directors reading, feel free to use this playlist to do your job for you. In the sixties he tracked seminal British Invasion works for the Rolling Stones, The Who, Small Faces, The Creation, and The Kinks. Just take the next 24 hours, and check out a fraction of songs he worked on as producer, engineer and/or was tasked with mixing on this playlist I put together.Though Jimmy Page was credited as producer, Johns was involved in the production during the making of the album. Give Credit Where Credit’s Due: Johns isn’t shy about spelling out his contributions, but he also owns up when something isn’t his idea. The vulnerability he expresses is refreshing, as is the joy he shows over being able to work on records with his son, Ethan, a highly-regarded producer and studio musician in his own right.