The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.

(orbb) wrote in message om...
The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.

Oh yeah! Read it everyday, a real disappointment when it ended. The
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by Fletcher,
but written by someone else. Loved the part about the replacement
drummer who required super loud headphones. The author claims they
drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught fire. Not funny
if true, but still... damn those phones must have been loud. :)

Sure miss the daily adventures.

DaveT

(orbb) wrote in message om...
The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.

Oh yeah! Read it everyday, a real disappointment when it ended. The
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by Fletcher,
but written by someone else. Loved the part about the replacement
drummer who required super loud headphones. The author claims they
drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught fire. Not funny
if true, but still... damn those phones must have been loud. :)

Sure miss the daily adventures.

DaveT

The studio I recently left after 2.5 years used PrivateQ multichannel
headphone systems; very effective, flexible, and quite loud. The
assistant on a major label tracking date came into the shop one day with
a set of phones, told me he thought they were bad. When he handed them
to me, they were almost too hot to hold.

He said that the bass player kept turning them up, because they were not
loud enough. I decided to go into the room to investigate further.

I walked into the love room between takes, prepared to sweet talk the
bassist and find out what was wrong. When I opened the door, there was
the bassist, with a knit cap on, and the headphones on over the cap. I
turned right around, walked out into the hallway, and told the assistant
he would have to respectfully ask the bassist to take of his goddam cap!



Deaf Mellon MESA wrote:
(orbb) wrote in message om...

The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.


Oh yeah! Read it everyday, a real disappointment when it ended. The
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by Fletcher,
but written by someone else. Loved the part about the replacement
drummer who required super loud headphones. The author claims they
drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught fire. Not funny
if true, but still... damn those phones must have been loud. :)

Sure miss the daily adventures.

DaveT

--
Stephen Anderson

~At the end of the day, it's all about
the music

The studio I recently left after 2.5 years used PrivateQ multichannel
headphone systems; very effective, flexible, and quite loud. The
assistant on a major label tracking date came into the shop one day with
a set of phones, told me he thought they were bad. When he handed them
to me, they were almost too hot to hold.

He said that the bass player kept turning them up, because they were not
loud enough. I decided to go into the room to investigate further.

I walked into the love room between takes, prepared to sweet talk the
bassist and find out what was wrong. When I opened the door, there was
the bassist, with a knit cap on, and the headphones on over the cap. I
turned right around, walked out into the hallway, and told the assistant
he would have to respectfully ask the bassist to take of his goddam cap!



Deaf Mellon MESA wrote:
(orbb) wrote in message om...

The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.


Oh yeah! Read it everyday, a real disappointment when it ended. The
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by Fletcher,
but written by someone else. Loved the part about the replacement
drummer who required super loud headphones. The author claims they
drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught fire. Not funny
if true, but still... damn those phones must have been loud. :)

Sure miss the daily adventures.

DaveT

--
Stephen Anderson

~At the end of the day, it's all about
the music

What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?


---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?


---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

orbb wrote:

The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed.


So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

coughBULLcough****



Don

orbb wrote:

The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed.


So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

coughBULLcough****



Don

"EggHd" wrote in message
...
What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?

It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains the
last "third" and the ending. But he says there might be another book so I
don't know what's up with that. Also, it's been edited which worries me a
little. It was perfect as was. If "cleaned up" it wouldn't be as good I
don't think. I'd like to hear from anyone who bought the book.

"EggHd" wrote in message
...
What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?

It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains the
last "third" and the ending. But he says there might be another book so I
don't know what's up with that. Also, it's been edited which worries me a
little. It was perfect as was. If "cleaned up" it wouldn't be as good I
don't think. I'd like to hear from anyone who bought the book.

Don Cooper wrote:


orbb wrote:


The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed.



So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

coughBULLcough****

Well it is so far as I'm concerned. I seem to always be the
last to know, heavy sigh. :-)


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

Don Cooper wrote:


orbb wrote:


The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed.



So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

coughBULLcough****

Well it is so far as I'm concerned. I seem to always be the
last to know, heavy sigh. :-)


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

In article writes:

What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?

Apparently the rest of the story of the band. He stopped posting the
dirary at a break and never started again. On radio, they used to
call that a "cliff hanger."

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article writes:

What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?

Apparently the rest of the story of the band. He stopped posting the
dirary at a break and never started again. On radio, they used to
call that a "cliff hanger."

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article writes:

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format. IF so I'd run right over to download the
whole thing as it was a damned funny read.

mixerman.net is an ad for the book, not in an audio recorded form, not
as a file, and not in Braille as far as I can tell.

The daily diaries, which I followed, were often downright funny,
sometimes philosophical, and occasinally contained some genuine
engineering tips. He's a good writer and I'm sure it's an enjoyable
book, but most of us have already been there ourselves. Mixerman's
version is just sometimes so blown out of proportion that you can't
imagine that it really happened that way . . and then you can.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article writes:

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format. IF so I'd run right over to download the
whole thing as it was a damned funny read.

mixerman.net is an ad for the book, not in an audio recorded form, not
as a file, and not in Braille as far as I can tell.

The daily diaries, which I followed, were often downright funny,
sometimes philosophical, and occasinally contained some genuine
engineering tips. He's a good writer and I'm sure it's an enjoyable
book, but most of us have already been there ourselves. Mixerman's
version is just sometimes so blown out of proportion that you can't
imagine that it really happened that way . . and then you can.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article writes:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In article writes:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

On 2004-07-10, wrote:

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format.

The diary is on prosoundweb.something, not on mixerman.net.
It's in HTML format but I have a cleaned up version. If you
want, I can run it through lynx -dump and send you the resulting
text file.

It's a really good read. I'd buy the book but the shipping costs
to where I live are a bit stiff. Anyone in Paris wants to pool ?

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.

On 2004-07-10, wrote:

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format.

The diary is on prosoundweb.something, not on mixerman.net.
It's in HTML format but I have a cleaned up version. If you
want, I can run it through lynx -dump and send you the resulting
text file.

It's a really good read. I'd buy the book but the shipping costs
to where I live are a bit stiff. Anyone in Paris wants to pool ?

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.

Mike Rivers wrote:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.


Like I said.


Don

Mike Rivers wrote:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.


Like I said.


Don

It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains the
last "third" and the ending

I must have a faulty memeory on this. I remember that it was posted in full
and then the last 1/3 pulled later.




---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains the
last "third" and the ending

I must have a faulty memeory on this. I remember that it was posted in full
and then the last 1/3 pulled later.




---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

(orbb) wrote in message om...
The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.


I read the first couple of weeks worth of diaries as they were
originally posted but they began to bore me very quickly. The writing
wasn't bad at all, but everything seemed quite exaggerated. I
sincerely doubt that all of those experiences happened while recording
one band. I think that the diaries are more likely a combination of
many different bands and recording sessions. Recording (or touring
with) a band is incredibly boring about 95% of the time. I don't doubt
that everything detailed in the book is based on a real event. But I
get the feeling that Mixerman compiled numerous people into each
character and many experiences into a single session. This does not
mean I'm calling Mixerman a liar. I'm simply saying that if he did
compile various experiences out of sequence chronologically it makes
for a better story. Anyone here ever read Jim Thompson's
"autobiographical" books "Bad Boy" or "Roughneck"?
A few years ago I was thinking about writing a book based on my
experiences while working as a professional roadie for numerous punk
rock bands from 1995-2000. The only way the book would be even
slightly interesting is if I left out all of the stuff about how many
hours are spend sitting and doing absolutely nothing. Driving from
city to city, waiting for sound-check, waiting for doors to open,
waiting for the band to play, waiting to get paid, etc. The year and a
half I spent working in a studio was the same way. The studio job
didn't suck by any means, but it was far from exciting.
A friend of mine that I'd done some touring with _did_ write a book
about his experiences over the course of ten years with his band. He
wrote it as a "fictional" novel. He figured if he combined various
events and quotes attibutable to numerous people into single
characters it would be much more difficult for all of his various
ex-band-members to sue him or send people over to break his legs.
If I ever do decide to write a 100% _truthful_ account of my years on
the road I hate to think of just how many people will come crawling
out of the woodwork to seek revenge against me. Many of my former
employers wouldn't be bothered by my revealing what pretentious
egomaniacs they are. It's the closet homosexuals, closet drug addicts,
racist bigots, and thieves that wouldn't be too happy with me.
BTW, I think it was Jack Endino that wrote a really good article for
Tapeop magazine a few years ago that detailed all of the things that
could go wrong on a major label recording session. Practically every
single thing that he mentioned could go wrong happened in the Mixerman
diaries.
And if you want to read another great book that is 100% honest,
intelligent, introspective, hilarious, and created a huge ****storm of
controversy for the author, read "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. It's an
American classic, and the best book I've ever read about life on the
road with rock bands. Well, except for the fact that it's about
baseball... ;-)

(orbb) wrote in message om...
The Mixerman Diaries were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years
ago, but were never completed. I have learned that they have been
completed and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.

For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the story by
an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure) who is
recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major label. The
stories chronicle the recording sessions and all the problems. It's a
pretty good and very funny read.


I read the first couple of weeks worth of diaries as they were
originally posted but they began to bore me very quickly. The writing
wasn't bad at all, but everything seemed quite exaggerated. I
sincerely doubt that all of those experiences happened while recording
one band. I think that the diaries are more likely a combination of
many different bands and recording sessions. Recording (or touring
with) a band is incredibly boring about 95% of the time. I don't doubt
that everything detailed in the book is based on a real event. But I
get the feeling that Mixerman compiled numerous people into each
character and many experiences into a single session. This does not
mean I'm calling Mixerman a liar. I'm simply saying that if he did
compile various experiences out of sequence chronologically it makes
for a better story. Anyone here ever read Jim Thompson's
"autobiographical" books "Bad Boy" or "Roughneck"?
A few years ago I was thinking about writing a book based on my
experiences while working as a professional roadie for numerous punk
rock bands from 1995-2000. The only way the book would be even
slightly interesting is if I left out all of the stuff about how many
hours are spend sitting and doing absolutely nothing. Driving from
city to city, waiting for sound-check, waiting for doors to open,
waiting for the band to play, waiting to get paid, etc. The year and a
half I spent working in a studio was the same way. The studio job
didn't suck by any means, but it was far from exciting.
A friend of mine that I'd done some touring with _did_ write a book
about his experiences over the course of ten years with his band. He
wrote it as a "fictional" novel. He figured if he combined various
events and quotes attibutable to numerous people into single
characters it would be much more difficult for all of his various
ex-band-members to sue him or send people over to break his legs.
If I ever do decide to write a 100% _truthful_ account of my years on
the road I hate to think of just how many people will come crawling
out of the woodwork to seek revenge against me. Many of my former
employers wouldn't be bothered by my revealing what pretentious
egomaniacs they are. It's the closet homosexuals, closet drug addicts,
racist bigots, and thieves that wouldn't be too happy with me.
BTW, I think it was Jack Endino that wrote a really good article for
Tapeop magazine a few years ago that detailed all of the things that
could go wrong on a major label recording session. Practically every
single thing that he mentioned could go wrong happened in the Mixerman
diaries.
And if you want to read another great book that is 100% honest,
intelligent, introspective, hilarious, and created a huge ****storm of
controversy for the author, read "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. It's an
American classic, and the best book I've ever read about life on the
road with rock bands. Well, except for the fact that it's about
baseball... ;-)

bbbbbbbbbbb

bbbbbbbbbbb

(Mike Rivers) wrote in message news:znr1089461119k@trad...
In article writes:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.

Geez Mike,

Care to dispell all the "elitist" tags and spill?

(Mike Rivers) wrote in message news:znr1089461119k@trad...
In article writes:

So is it still a BIG SECRET who he is?

Not to those who know.

Geez Mike,

Care to dispell all the "elitist" tags and spill?

ThePaulThomas wrote:

And if you want to read another great book that is 100% honest,
intelligent, introspective, hilarious, and created a huge ****storm of
controversy for the author, read "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. It's an
American classic, and the best book I've ever read about life on the
road with rock bands. Well, except for the fact that it's about
baseball... ;-)


Bouton's book was so controversial when it came out. It seems rather
tame now. He has revised it over the years, as well.

Thanks for the reminder. I should read that again.


Don

ThePaulThomas wrote:

And if you want to read another great book that is 100% honest,
intelligent, introspective, hilarious, and created a huge ****storm of
controversy for the author, read "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. It's an
American classic, and the best book I've ever read about life on the
road with rock bands. Well, except for the fact that it's about
baseball... ;-)


Bouton's book was so controversial when it came out. It seems rather
tame now. He has revised it over the years, as well.

Thanks for the reminder. I should read that again.


Don

It was ended when Bitch Slap and Mixerman went to New York, and I didn't see
anything on ProSoundWeb that went past what had previously been written,
although I read it again to refresh my memory.

If there's a book, I hope it has more. Perhaps we're talking about Velvet
Revolver, but then I know that's not the case because I know who Mixerman is
and I haven't seen his name in conjunction with that album's release.
Besides, some of those guys can play! g

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"EggHd" wrote in message
...
It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains
the
last "third" and the ending

I must have a faulty memeory on this. I remember that it was posted in
full
and then the last 1/3 pulled later.




---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

It was ended when Bitch Slap and Mixerman went to New York, and I didn't see
anything on ProSoundWeb that went past what had previously been written,
although I read it again to refresh my memory.

If there's a book, I hope it has more. Perhaps we're talking about Velvet
Revolver, but then I know that's not the case because I know who Mixerman is
and I haven't seen his name in conjunction with that album's release.
Besides, some of those guys can play! g

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"EggHd" wrote in message
...
It says what was on the web was 2/3 of the book and the book contains
the
last "third" and the ending

I must have a faulty memeory on this. I remember that it was posted in
full
and then the last 1/3 pulled later.




---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Geez Mike,

Care to dispell all the "elitist" tags and spill?

anyone who does some google searching should be able to find out.



---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Geez Mike,

Care to dispell all the "elitist" tags and spill?

anyone who does some google searching should be able to find out.



---------------------------------------
"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Don Cooper wrote in message ...

Bouton's book was so controversial when it came out. It seems rather
tame now. He has revised it over the years, as well.

Thanks for the reminder. I should read that again.

Don

The fact that Bouton's book was indeed so controversial when first
published (1970?) and yet seems so tame now is definitely part of what
makes it so utterly hilarious. It's incredible how square and uptight
the baseball community was back then. If you didn't have a military
crew-cut you were some sort of hippy freak in baseball. I seem to
recall that Bouton used to get his own room when they played out of
town because of his opposition to the Vietnam war. The team managers
thought he was a communist. And if you really want to get a better
picture of just how much of a ****storm that book created, look for a
used copy of his long out-of-print follow up book titled "I'm Glad You
Didn't Take It Personally". It details all of the death threats he
received and other related insanity that happened the first year after
Ball Four was published. The latest (30th anniversary) edition has a
lengthy follow up on the last ten years. Did you know that Bouton was
not allowed to set foot in the Yankee stadium for over 25 years as a
result of Ball Four? Oh man, don't even get me started. Damn, what a
great book! Everyone should read it. A true American classic.
http://www.jimbouton.com/ballfour.html

Don Cooper wrote in message ...

Bouton's book was so controversial when it came out. It seems rather
tame now. He has revised it over the years, as well.

Thanks for the reminder. I should read that again.

Don

The fact that Bouton's book was indeed so controversial when first
published (1970?) and yet seems so tame now is definitely part of what
makes it so utterly hilarious. It's incredible how square and uptight
the baseball community was back then. If you didn't have a military
crew-cut you were some sort of hippy freak in baseball. I seem to
recall that Bouton used to get his own room when they played out of
town because of his opposition to the Vietnam war. The team managers
thought he was a communist. And if you really want to get a better
picture of just how much of a ****storm that book created, look for a
used copy of his long out-of-print follow up book titled "I'm Glad You
Didn't Take It Personally". It details all of the death threats he
received and other related insanity that happened the first year after
Ball Four was published. The latest (30th anniversary) edition has a
lengthy follow up on the last ten years. Did you know that Bouton was
not allowed to set foot in the Yankee stadium for over 25 years as a
result of Ball Four? Oh man, don't even get me started. Damn, what a
great book! Everyone should read it. A true American classic.
http://www.jimbouton.com/ballfour.html

"right" playonATcomcast.net wrote in message
...
On 10 Jul 2004 07:23:06 -0400, (Mike Rivers)
wrote:


In article
writes:

What's in the book that wasn't already posting on Pro Sound Web?

Apparently the rest of the story of the band. He stopped posting the
dirary at a break and never started again. On radio, they used to
call that a "cliff hanger."

The site claims that 2/3 of the story was originally posted on the
web, so the book will only add another 1/3 of the story? Must be a
small book... seems like a rip to me. Guess I'll wait for a used
copy.

The book is 396 pages long, is 1 and 3/8 inches thick, and weights 1.4
pounds. It's a hardbound smythe sewn book, and it has been read by several
proofreaders, all of whom read the original online version in its entirety.
I got thumbs up from each of them, including Fletcher.

The book is the book. If you buy it, you should read it from top to bottom,
because it contains information that I could not put in the posts at the
time. The online version ended upruptly, the book conludes. If you were one
of the 25,000 that visited the site on a daily basis to read the entries,
then you should definitely buy the book and read it. If you're not, then you
should buy the book and read it just because it's a hell of a lot easier to
read it as a book than it is on a computer screen.

It's good to see some of the usual suspects still here. Egghead, Mike
Rivers, Roger Norman, and the like.

Hope you're all well,

Mixerman