Temples of Sound - thoughts on accuracy

[Robert Blank]

I just read Cogan/Clarks "Temples Of Sound" and I felt like I was
reading one of those 'fanzine' books that are about a contemporary
artist that has been around for only a year.... full of inaccuracies,
lack of research depth, and mostly a glowing 'wasn't it amazing'
attitude that elies the missine elements in this book.

Obviously written for the young engineer for his xmas wish list, this
book is as vacant of pictures and real detail as Milt Hinton's "Bass
Lines" is FULL. How can you have an article about Sigma Sound without a
picture of one of their MCI consoles? Or take those common and overused
pics of the artists in the Sun Studios section, and not have pics of the
studio in session? This seems to be a "I Love The 80s" version of
studio lore - compared to the Abbey Road Sessions book, this is a
disappointment.

Glad I took it home from the library... and not B&N.

Anyone else have comments?

[Paul Bawol]

"How can you have an article about Sigma Sound without a
picture of one of their MCI consoles?"

Did they have a picture of a Sphere or Electrodyne console? Kind of a
personal interest of mine. As far as I know, Sigma had the first console-a
Sphere Eclipse C-equipped with total recall. (This would be early 80's)

If anyone knows of an earlier console sold with that technology, I'd be
interested in hearing about it...

....Paul

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"Robert Blank" > wrote in message
. ..
> I just read Cogan/Clarks "Temples Of Sound" and I felt like I was
> reading one of those 'fanzine' books that are about a contemporary
> artist that has been around for only a year.... full of inaccuracies,
> lack of research depth, and mostly a glowing 'wasn't it amazing'
> attitude that elies the missine elements in this book.
>
> Obviously written for the young engineer for his xmas wish list, this
> book is as vacant of pictures and real detail as Milt Hinton's "Bass
> Lines" is FULL. How can you have an article about Sigma Sound without a
> picture of one of their MCI consoles? Or take those common and overused
> pics of the artists in the Sun Studios section, and not have pics of the
> studio in session? This seems to be a "I Love The 80s" version of
> studio lore - compared to the Abbey Road Sessions book, this is a
> disappointment.
>
> Glad I took it home from the library... and not B&N.
>
> Anyone else have comments?

[umbriaco]

Lots of innacuracies. Lots of omissions as well.
It made me glaze over text, not wanting to be misinformed.
eg. pix on pgs. 30 & 41 are Columbia Studios, not United Western 3. Only
Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.
Still an entertaining quick read with a good collection of pitures.
My favorite, Jim Stewart ot his Stax office with the leopard-skin bar and
painting of a reclining female nude.

[P Stamler]

>Only
>Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.

I thought Motown had one by then? And of course Les Paul had his back in the
'50s.

Peace,
Paul

[Tommy B]

Let's not forget Tommy Dowd now.
tom
"P Stamler" > wrote in message
...
> >Only
> >Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.
>
> I thought Motown had one by then? And of course Les Paul had his back in
the
> '50s.
>
> Peace,
> Paul

[Charles Robertson, Psy.D.]

I was hoping there would be more detail about setups for particular songs.
Still a fun, quick read.
chuck robertson

"Tommy B" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> Let's not forget Tommy Dowd now.
> tom
> "P Stamler" > wrote in message
> ...
> > >Only
> > >Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.
> >
> > I thought Motown had one by then? And of course Les Paul had his back in
> the
> > '50s.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Paul
>
>

[umbriaco]

in article et, Tommy B at
wrote on 11/16/03 7:44 AM:

> Let's not forget Tommy Dowd now.
> tom
> "P Stamler" > wrote in message
> ...
>>> Only
>>> Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.
>>
>> I thought Motown had one by then? And of course Les Paul had his back in
> the
>> '50s.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Paul

Yes, Les, Atlantic & Hitsvile all did. I was referring to the pix of Brian
Wilson who, (to my knowledge) during '66, worked at Western, Sunset, Gold
Star, Columbia and perhaps Capitol. At that time, only Columbia had an 8
track - with 354 electronics, yikes!

[Robert Blank]

354 ampex electronics - eeew.

The studio I worked in in the very early 70s had a 354 4 track and boy
was that a POS. However, that and the MM1000 16 trck with NO remote
made me very aware of the analog world.

umbriaco > wrote:

> in article et, Tommy B at
> wrote on 11/16/03 7:44 AM:
>
> > Let's not forget Tommy Dowd now.
> > tom
> > "P Stamler" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >>> Only
> >>> Columbia had an 8 track (visible in the background) back in '66.
> >>
> >> I thought Motown had one by then? And of course Les Paul had his back in
> > the
> >> '50s.
> >>
> >> Peace,
> >> Paul
>
> Yes, Les, Atlantic & Hitsvile all did. I was referring to the pix of Brian
> Wilson who, (to my knowledge) during '66, worked at Western, Sunset, Gold
> Star, Columbia and perhaps Capitol. At that time, only Columbia had an 8
> track - with 354 electronics, yikes!

[MHLINE]

The biggest error I spotted was the pictures of Brian Wilson labelled as being
taken in Western 3 which are in fact from CBS Recording Studios. This is really
shoddy since I or almost anyone could have corrected this mistake and pointed
the authors to correct picts of Studio 3.

Lastly how can you do a book like this and not mention Goldstar?

A great idea for a book, but not very accurate imo.

Mark Linett