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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
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 Posted - 10/29/2003 : 14:24:17
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Did anyone else catch this great documentary?
I just saw a documentary on Tom Dowd ("Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" http://www.thelanguageofmusic.com/ ), the engineer/producer for an incredible array of great musicians. He was initially a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project, and left the field in which he excelled during the NSA-enforced stranglehold on education of the WWII years, as he could not finish his college carreer. He went on to work for Atlantic Records, invented the 8-track recorder, and was highly influential and loved in the music community. He just passed away a year ago on the 27th. RIP
"With credits including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers Band, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Bob Marley Thelonius Monk, Cream, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Booker T. & the MG’s and countless other celebrated musicians, Tom Dowd’s pioneering work in recording techniques helped shape the sound of modern music as we know it today."
Highly recommended!
If you get Sundance channel, it will be playing again on Friday the 31st http://www.sundancechannel.com/feature/index.php?ixContent=4979 |
Edited by - apl4eris on 10/29/2003 14:42:07 |
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