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Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
By Glenn Berger
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In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "Schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler, and James Brown performed their hit-making magic, honed their sound, strutted their stuff, bared their souls, and threw epic tantrums. In this memoir, full of revelatory and previously unknown anecdotal observations of these musical giants, Glenn recounts how he quickly learned the ropes to move up from schlepperhood to assistant to the tyrannical Ramone, and eventually, to become a recording engineer superstar himself. Not only is Never Say No to A Rock Star a fascinating, hilarious and poignant behind-the-scenes look of this musical Mecca, but Berger, now a prominent psychologist, looking back through the prism of his youthful experience and his years working as a counselor and therapist, provides a telling and honest examination of the nature of fame and success and the corollaries between creativity, madness and self-destruction.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had no idea who Glen Berger was when I started this book but I have just recently become interested in the recording asect of music during the seventies. I enjoyed the first half of the book which Glen spends on his youth and early days in the industry. He didn't like a lot of artists (Paul Simon, Bob Dylan) but he has some interesting tales to tell about a lot of people. Halway through when he becomes a "big shot", in his own words, he becomes a lot harder to take. He's one of these cocky, arrogant guys who gets off on being self-deprecating. Near the end are a few hapters where he soul searches the meaning of life whch were really hard to take and I sarted skimming from that point on. An okay book but it's hard to really enjoy a emoir when you don't like the guy who's telling the story.