Turn It Up!

My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music

De: Tom Werman

Narrado por: Tom Werman

As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making resume includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies.

After bearing witness to several sea changes in the music industry, Werman retired from producing in 2001 and reinvented himself as an award-winning innkeeper in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. And that might have been that—until an off-the-cuff rebuttal to a disparaging critique of his role in making the Mötley Crüe album Girls, Girls, Girls on a music website led to a fortnightly column and now this book—an honest and engaging insider account on how some of the best-loved albums of the 1970s and '80s came to be. A must for anyone interested in the glory days of rock and metal, Turn It Up! offers valuable insights into the recording process, the recording studio, the role of the producer, and the production values that are essential to the creation of a hit record.

©2023 Tom Werman (P)2024 Tantor

Great listen

Great story from the guy that helped create so many great records. I hadn’t realized that he was part of the RockStar movie soundtrack. Recomended.

Nostalgic fun

Very interesting behind-the-scenes information, if you’re a music fan of the 80s, this is a must read

The recordings that made us

I love any book about those who created the soundtrack of my Gen X life

good book

Very fuckin good book, would recommend. Love listening about times I'll never get to experience.

An outstanding history of the production side of music when music was organic and real.

Werman does a great job detailing not only what he produced throughout his career, but what it was to be a producer in the 70s and 80s. He really helps you understand what music meant to him, and how he listened to it. This lead beautifully into his describing the kind of producer he became. It was great to see another side of this era versus the artists’ points of view in their books.