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The Daily Adventures of Mixerman: What Spinal Tap did to heavy metal, Mixerman does to the recording process
Author(s): Mixerman (Author)
- Publisher: Mixerman Publishes
- Publication Date: November 23, 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 354 pages
- ISBN-10: 0960040501
- ISBN-13: 9780960040506
Book Description
In the summer of 2002, I began to chronicle my Daily events on a Major Label recording session with a bidding-war band, an infamous producer, and a seemingly limitless budget. Every night, after a long session with these crazy characters, I posted up the day’s events. The Reaction
As Metro reporter Gina Arnold put it, “Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but somehow, through that prism, he has hit upon a gripping story.” That’s right, it was even mentioned in random newspapers at the time.When I began posting my story, I had an audience of 200. By week 4 that grew to 25,000. And by the last entry, I was posting to the delight of over 150,000 music business professionals around the world. There were discussion threads all over the music business and recording boards, debating every decision we made along the way. The story went viral before viral was even really a thing.
If you pursue the reviews, you’ll find that most people find my diaries sidesplittingly hilarious. Others view them as reprehensible. But really, that just makes it all even more hilarious. Whatever your reaction might be, this story is, without a doubt, the most infamous studio story ever told.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“By its fourth week, the diary was getting 25,000 hits a day and drawing attention from every stripe of the music business, as well as other bloggers, Internet junkies, and insiders. It was a phenomenon . . . The final chapter is here, too, for new readers, as well as the more than 140,000 Web readers who may have lost a night’s sleep here or there, wondering what became of their all-too-human, less-than-gifted cast of characters.” “I have never laughed so hard at any book in my life! It is such a good book that I am reading it now for the second time.”
“The story has a feeling of life. A sense of reality that is all too uncommon in the world of music. It gives you a view of the real day to day pleasure and pain involved in the life of an Audio Engineer or Producer. It pulls you along at its pace, sometimes a fast shuffle, other times a slow waltz as you watch a train wreck taking place, one frame at a time.” “This is a very entertaining book.” “Absolutely the best book I’ve ever read, music wise. Funny, smart, well written.”
