 | | Today's Top Story - 12.22.14 | | Pioneering Rap Producer Larry Smith Dead | By Clive Young
Larry Smith, producer of landmark rap hits by Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, Whodini and others, died Friday, December 19 at the age of 63. Smith had suffered health complications in recent years after a 2007 stroke left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak, but his pioneering work in the early 1980s helped transform rap from a novelty offshoot of disco to one of the most prevalent forms of music today. | | Read More » |
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| | Today's Featured Blog | | Book Review: Sound Man Is A Breezy Read | by Clive Young
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock era, recording many of their best-known albums. The sheer number of famous performances that he captured—songs that you hear every day of your life—is remarkable, and as a result, he worked over the years with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, CSN, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Steve Miller Band, The Clash, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, Joe Cocker and dozens of others, all of who appear in the pages of his new autobiography, Sound Man. | | Read More » |
| | | Quote of the Week | "We have a saying: Loud is beautiful only if it's clean. That's the idea—we need to achieve a strong low end so we can get a really clean show. It makes the show more enjoyable for the audience, and makes it seem like they are closer to the artist. If you go to a concert that sounds bad, it always makes the artist seem like he's in the distance. If it sounds good, the artist seems like he's right in front of you. It all depends on the efficiency of the system that you use."—Horace Ward, FOH Engineer, Usher.
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