Music and Recording DVD Discs

[10 Watt Street]

Here are three discs to recommend on music and recording that I enjoyed immensely of late:

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
http://www.thelanguageofmusic.com/

Classic Albums: The Band
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=180615

Standing in the Shadows of Motown
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314725/

Netflix has all 3.

Other recommendations anyone?

[speakerdave]

I just watched the DVD about Tom Dowd's work at Atlantic Records and other labels. I think many LH Forum members would find it very interesting.

[10 Watt Street]

Another good one:

Classic Albums: Steely Dan: Aja

[Bob Womack]

I loved the Tom Dowd disk. Tom was one of my heros. It was so fantastic to watch him sit down with the Layla master and analyze the content. One of the most significant parts of the whole deal was when he admitted that he was on salary, and a small salary at that, for most of his career.

Try Les Paul: Chasing Sound (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000QGE856/bookstorenow19-20). Les created the sound-on-sound recording technique and was creatively involved with the symul-sync process for multitrack recording, using the record head as a playback head so that overdubs would be in sync with previously recorded tracks. He was probably the inventor of the solid-body spanish (upright) electric guitar (though that is disputed). He was also probably the single most popular recording artist of the mid-50s and a dynamite guitar player.

I'd love it someone would do a "Tom Dowd the Language of Music" project for Bill Szymczyk (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov04/articles/szymczyk.htm), who was a near contemporary of Dowd and a friend. He produced Joe Walsh, the Eagles, The James Gang, J. Geils, B.B. King, the Who, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, and a boatload of others.

Bob

[BMWCCA]

I just watched the DVD about Tom Dowd's work at Atlantic Records and other labels. I think many LH Forum members would find it very interesting.I just got this DVD under my Christmas tree and found it fascinating. Did anyone notice in the "extras" with Les Paul when he's showing his original Ampex 4-channel recorders from his "kitchen" that behind him is a pair of 4412As? :applaud:

[jcrobso]

Yes, he invented sound on sound, symul-syn and multi-track.
As for the solid body guitar, he probably though of the idea first. But just as the Wright brothers were credited with the first powered flight there were others trying to fly. Fender was the first company to market and sell solid body guitars. After Fenders success Gibson call up Less Paul and ask him about the guitar he had been trying to get Gibson to make, all of sudden Gibson was interested in making them. ;)John