Follow the Music: The Life And High Times Of Elektra Records In The Great Years Of American Pop Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00HSSA6ZG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 538 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very good retrospective of Elektra Records and the evolution of folk and pop music In the history of human endeavor, there have been a handful of people who have dared to follow their muse, and create in reality thoughts that came into their minds. Jac Holzman is one such individual. For over 25 years as the head honcho at Elektra Records, he did what he wanted to do, and ref. Wedloe said The Fascinating Story of Jac Holzman and Elektrathis one's a keeper. To say that Jac Holzman is a unique individual just scratches the surface. This is a terrific story of how Holzman's companies were built, their operating principles, the talented people with which he surrounded himself, and the unbelievably hard work and uncompromising search for quality he de. Lawrence Lachmann said I loved this book. I loved this book. Jac Holzman was a true visionary and led an incredibly interesting life. You can read between the lines and see that he could be as difficult a man as there is, but what I took away from his story is that the music is what drove him. When it couldn't be about the music anymor
He built the hippest, most advanced studio in the known world, its walls lined with gold and platinum records., and Elektra's reputation was global.And—central to his life and being—Jac was present at the creation of some of the most remarkable music of his remarkable times: The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Phil Ochs, Tim Buckley .FOLLOW THE MUSIC is a fascinating study of the amazing cultural transformation from the Fifties to the Sixties and Seventies as told by the Elektra artists and staffers, friends, lovers, competitors, adversaries who lived it.. He christened his label Elektra.Twenty years later, Jac had brought five hundred albums into being. Jac Holzman started his own record company when he was all of nineteen. His total assets amounted to a handful of dollars, a brain fizzing with ideas, and a heart pumping with naive late-teenage hope
With help from coauthor Gavan Daws, the label's then head, Jac Holzman, collects his reminiscences and those of many of his cohorts in the enlightening, often hilarious Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture. Before he left, though, Holzman and friends had irrevocably altered, as he says, the "recording technique, packaging, marketing and the behavioral sciences of rock and roll." --Rickey Wright. The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, and Phil Ochs were all products of the nurturing environment at the Elektra Records of the '60s and early '70s. This oral history follows Holzman's exploits from his days as a producer of small pressings of obscure folk music to his signing of rockers like Jim Morrison and Arthur Lee and his eventual sale of the company and