Reviews, etc...

Interviews

Reviews, etc...

By Larry Crane

So, here's the REVIEWS section. Tape Op gets a lot of CDs, singles and (yuck) cassettes sent our way. Most of them are in a box behind my couch and are waiting to be traded in for Beatles CDs. Some of the rest are really good but I never can get a recording angle on them to use for a...

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Studio Daze

Interviews

Studio Daze: up and down with Seattle's Inside Productions

By Marty Jourard

What makes a relatively sane person decide to open a recording studio? Is it the thought of earning money? Dealing crack is a more lucrative and rational method of meeting fine people and turning a quick buck. Is it the thrill of being able to record your own music for free? This is certainly a...

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Reading Materials

Interviews

Reading Materials

By Larry Crane

THE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS

The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes, 1962-1970

This book is required reading for all Tape Op readers. Writer and researcher, Mark Lewisohn, also wrote the highly informative liner notes to the Beatles Anthology series of CDs (while he helped compile them) and...

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A Trip to Athens...

Interviews

A Trip to Athens...: The Miner St. studio gang hits the road

By Brian McTear
I am a musician. At least that is what I tell my parents when they ask. In early March of...
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COLUMNS

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End Rant #5
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End Rant #5

by Larry Crane

AUDIO ALCHEMY Various Artists (Ubiquity) I was ready to dismiss the whole trip-hop/dub whatever thing as a waste of time until I heard this stuff. You can tell there's people out there who have been listening to Byrne and Eno's ...Bush of Ghosts and Sly and Robbie's old dub experiments (check out...