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Thirty years behind the glass : from Otis Redding and Stax Records to Santana's Supernatural

Title
Thirty years behind the glass : from Otis Redding and Stax Records to Santana's Supernatural / Jim Gaines as told to Lee Zimmerman.
Author
Zimmerman, Lee
Publication
  • College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
Gaines, Jim
Description
vii, 184 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
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"--
Alternative Title
30 years behind the glass
Subject
  • Gaines, Jim
  • 1900-1999
  • Sound engineers > United States > Biography
  • Sound recording executives and producers > United States > Biography
  • Popular music > Production and direction > History > United States > 20th century
  • Sound engineers
  • Sound recording executives and producers
  • Popular music
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Contents
Memphis is burning! : April 4, 1968 -- Humble beginnings : 1960-1968 -- On the tracks with Stax : 1960s -- From Stax to TMI : 1968-1970 -- San Francisco beckons : 1970 -- A period of proficiency : 1970 -- Settled in Seattle : 1973-1974 -- Sleepless in Seattle : 1974-1975 -- Hightailing it back to Heider's : 1975-1976 -- Making music with Miller : 1976-1978 -- Arriving at the Automatt : 1979 -- Return to Grants Pass : 1979-1980 -- Back to the Bay : 1980-1981 -- Scoring with Santana : 1980 -- Returning to the record plant : 1981-1982 -- More plant pursuits : 1981-1982 -- Getting the news : 1983 -- The end of an era ... and the beginning of a new one : 1984 -- A new journey-with Journey : 1984-1985 -- Here come the feds : 1985 -- More hits from Huey : 1986 -- The ABCs of KBC : 1986 -- A new owner at the record plant : 1986 -- Getting in the groove with the Neville Brothers : 1987 -- A holler from Hornsby : 1988 -- Working with Melissa Etheridge : 1988 -- Dueling Doobies : 1988 -- Farewell to Frisco : 1988 -- Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble : 1989 -- A king comes calling : 1989 -- Minding time in Memphis : 1989 -- Seeing the sights in Europe : 1990 -- A great Dane : 1991 -- Bonding with Blues Traveler, grooving with Gales : 1991 -- Collaborating with Collins : 1992 -- El Tri, triumphant : 1995-1997 -- The late and great Luther Allison : 1994-1997 -- Soaring with Santana : 1989-1999 -- Santana grabs some Grammys : 1991-2000 -- More sizzle with Santana : Reviewing the 1990s -- When things go wrong : More memories from the 1990s -- Here come the blues -- The best of the rest : 1989-Present -- And here we are today.
Call Number
*LE 23-603
ISBN
  • 9781648431005
  • 1648431003
LCCN
2022015962
OCLC
1309077423
Author
Zimmerman, Lee, author.
Title
Thirty years behind the glass : from Otis Redding and Stax Records to Santana's Supernatural / Jim Gaines as told to Lee Zimmerman.
Publisher
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Gaines, Jim, interviewee.
Research Call Number
*LE 23-603
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