Highly recommended.
“The inside story of Record Plant studios — the real "Hotel California" — that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.
In the seventies, Record Plant studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. With studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording trucks, Record Plant was everywhere there was music. In 1976 alone, three #1 albums—Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life, the Eagles’ Hotel California, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours—were all recorded in Record Plant studios.
Based on the memoirs and archives of studio cofounder Chris Stone, and interviews with over one hundred studio employees, music producers, and recording artists, Buzz Me In narrates this previously untold story of classic rock ‘n’ roll as the authors received it from industry insiders working behind the iconic studio’s locked doors, alongside the great rock stars of the twentieth century.
This fast-paced and engrossing book, written by two seasoned music journalists, tells the incredible story of the evolution of Record Plant Studios, tape by tape, and of the hits that were manufactured there. Starting on New York’s West Side in 1968 with the recording of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Record Plant expanded to LA, where Stevie Wonder produced his greatest hits, and then on to Sausalito where Sly Stone, Bob Marley, and Fleetwood Mac encamped; John Lennon made New York his post-Beatles home, and the Eagles conceived Hotel California while working in LA.“
“A colorful chronicle of the first 13 years of the Record Plant recording studio… Stitching together meticulous research, interviews with industry insiders and engineers, and ephemera (including album covers, studio posters, and even invitations to Record Plant parties), the authors provide an exuberant account of a chaotic studio culture that fed some of the artists’ worst impulses while creating some of the 1970s' most memorable music.” — Publishers Weekly
“Without the Record Plant, chances are your record collection would sound very different. ‘Buzz Me In’ gets into all the drama and legendary music that came out of the New York/California studios in the Seventies.” — Rolling Stone
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) But I did my share of demos and then the occasional record and there was something magical about being in these big-time studios. It made a project seem that much more important.