[ebooks] Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience by John H Falk at Arts-Photography

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In 1974; at the age of seventeen; author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer; Phil Ramone; at New York Citys AR Studios. He was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon; Bob Dylan; Mick Jagger; Frank Sinatra; Burt Bacharach; Bette Midler; and James Brown performed their hit-making magic; honed their sound; strutted their stuff; bared their souls; and threw epic tantrums. In this memoir; full of revelatory and previously unknown anecdotal observations of these musical giants; Glenn recounts how he quickly learned the ropes to move up from schlepperhood to assistant to the tyrannical Ramone; and eventually; to become a recording engineer superstar himself. Not only is this book a fascinating; hilarious and poignant behind-the-scenes look of this musical Mecca; but Berger; now a prominent psychologist; looking back through the prism of his youthful experience and his years working as a counselor and therapist; provides a telling and honest examination of the nature of fame and success and the corollaries between creativity; madness and self-destruction.