{"product_id":"chairman-at-the-board-recording-the-soundtrack-of-a-generation","title":"Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation","description":"Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio―behind the curtain―and through the decades with a cavalcade of famous artists as he helped them to realize their vision.\n\nAfter his high school band was dropped by Decca Records, Schnee began his quest to learn everything he could about making records. Mentored by technical guru Toby Foster, mastering guru Doug Sax, and recording legend Richie Podolor at his American Recording Studio, he immediately began recording the top acts of the day as a freelance engineer\/producer in Hollywood. Clive Davis soon hired him to work for CBS where he partnered with famed music producer Richard Perry. Schnee went on to record and\/or mix many of Perry's biggest albums of the '70s and '80s, including those by Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Art Garfunkel, and the Pointer Sisters.\n\nWith his deft personal touch with musicians, he continued to engineer and\/or produce the likes of Marvin Gaye, Thelma Houston (the Grammy-nominated, direct-to-disc album I've Got the Music in Me), Pablo Cruise, Neil Diamond, Boz Scaggs, the Jacksons, Huey Lewis and the News, Dire Straits, and Whitney Houston.\n\nWith over 125 gold and platinum records, and two Grammys for Steely Dan's Aja and Gaucho, Schnee has been called a living legend―recognized and respected in the industry as the consummate music man with an incomparable career that he lovingly shares with his readers in humorous detail.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1493056131\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1493056131.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schnee, Bill\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41561483640890,"sku":"DBV.1493056131.G","price":13.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1493056131-0.jpg?v=1785210144","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/chairman-at-the-board-recording-the-soundtrack-of-a-generation","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}