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Introduction to Music Publishing for Musicians By Bobby Borg & Michael Eames (paperback) $34.00
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The Storyteller—Tales of Life and Music By Dave Grohl (hardcover) $29.99
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has penned a Worth every penny, this is a down-to-earth new vivid memoir that conveys both the ordinary and book written by two musicians and industry the extraordinary moments and events of his life. pros (and Music Connection contributors) with Standouts include decades of experience. They’ve organized it some harrowing into seven clearly-written sections that will help incidents with musicians, students, songwriters, beat makers Nirvana bandmate and others save time and avoid getting screwed. Kurt Cobain as Topics include well as heartfelt the basics of moments with copyrights, Grohl’s wife and types of pubkids. Experiences lishing income, riginally from Guatemala, mix engineer and 11-time Grammy-winner with John publishing Manny Marroquin fell in love with music when hePantera, discovered the Fogerty, Tom companies and drums as a child. Later he attended L.A.’s Alexander Hamilton High Petty, Iggy Pop, typeswhere of deals, School he logged countless hours in the school’s studio. Rather John Paul Jones, creative than attendmatcollege, Marroquin spent a few months in an engineering Paul McCartney ters of music program and landed a runner gig at Enterprise Studios. His break came and others make publishing, when a producer asked him to do a rough mix of some tracks, was suitthis autobiography and things you ably impressed and invited Marroquin to mix the entire record. Since that a satisfying read. need to know pivotal day, he’s worked with artists such as Kanye West, Phoenix, Alicia about music Keys and a swath of others. publishing’s Like any good mixer, Marroquin knows when and how to massage future. By Marc a track. But over the years he’sMyers learned something of equal importance and perhaps more nuanced: when to do little or nothing. “That’s the (hardcover) $30.00 million-dollar question,” he asserts, “and it’s what makes [mixers] unique: plenty fascinating information to track] glean knowing when to do There’s something andofknowing when to leave [a from Myer’s oral history examination of the alone. Some people express themselves through frequencies. That’s evolution of the rock concert business, from the By Gina Schock mostly instinctual and I don’t think it can be taught. It’s almost like teachwild west ‘50s to the corporatized ‘80s. Myers (hardcover) $40.00 ing someone good taste. You can show that to people, but it’s got to does it with insightful statements from prominent come from within. That’s a combination of thousands of key points you’ve Go-Go’s drummer Gina Schock takes fans insiders (Seymour learned since the moment you were born.” behind the scenes for a look at her personal Stein, George photos documenting her band's It’s wildcommon journeyfor records to have Wein, Henry Diltz, multipleFeaturing producers and just as many to the heights of fame and stardom. Marshall Chess, mixers. views that as a posters, photographs, Polaroids, andMarroquin other Michael Lang), choice that in large part on . . . lessons he’s learned memorabilia from her archives, Made In depends Holperformers (Ianas a thelywood genre and mix engineer are: alsoartist. “We just finished Anderson, Todd theincludes record for Paramore,” he explains. stories Rundgren, Alice • Be a good people person and com“That band needs one consistent sound from each Cooper) and the municator.fans Be observant of how because it’s of anthe album with one promember in the stands, ducer. Butalong then you get another band someone moves their bodyattenwhen band, with special or with genreother and they cul- may have several. If they listention to your to mix. milestone there’s one producer, nine times tural only luminarevents such • You’re onlyas as Woodstock, good as your client. outies of like ten it’ll be the same mixer. So, it Kate Hopefully you can connect the Pierson, Jodie depends a lot on who the producer is. Altamont andwith Live Dave we don’t necessarily In Foster, today’s world, right people. Aid. Stewart, Mar-as much as we used listen to albums • Be more emotional and less literal. andless important to to,tha so itQuinn becomes Think more with your right brain – the Paul Reubens. have [only] one mixer.” creative side – than with your left, Plugin-maker Waves Byapproached Mike Cidoni Lennox & Chris May which is the technical side.. Marroquin to create the Manny (hardcover) $35.00 Marroquin Signature Series bundle. By Andrew McMahon “When I signed on to The do it,story they of one of the most enduring and (hardcover) $27.95 endeared recording artists history—the wanted something that was slightly different andineasy to use,” he recalls. told are for the first timefrequencies from the EQ isMannea four-bandCarpenters—is and I believe there 14 different The Something Corporate and“My Jack’s perspective of Richard overall. Each one is based on a piece of gear Carpenter, in my roomthrough and is modeled quin frontman delivers an engrossing memoir more hours of Avalon exclusive to mirror it. For example, mythan 25k100 could be an EQ,interviews 125 hertz could about the challenges and triumphs of his childsome 200 photographs fromEQ the artist’s be and my Neve and 800 and could be my API. So, it’s a super with all of the hood career, personal archive. also the as gear seenbut through thefrequencies I tend to go to.” This the nicely illusRecently Marroquin completed work with Paramore, 1975, Phoenix lens of his personal tratedspoke bookwith takes and Kendrick Lamar. In fact, the day Music Connection him, connection to three you he’d just begun the mix on DJ Khaled’s latest record. Hethrough remainsthe in pianos. McMahon multimillion-selling, notclose only contact recountswith his David Sears, his high school mentor, who’s now Vice Grammy-winning President, Education for GRAMMY in the Schools. Indeed, they often sit grueling efforts to duo’s formative on panels make it as antogether. indie Marroquin works almost exclusively at North Hollyyears right wood’s Larrabee which heupacquired artist, but also how Studios, his seven-room workspace, through their 2008. he in dealt with––and See mannymarroquin.com, 1970s stardom prerailed over––a Instagram @mannymarroquin,and Karen’s bout with leukemia unfortunate end. Twitter @MMMixes at age 23.
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