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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Salesrank: 15613
Released: August 24, 2004 |
| Our Price: $18.52 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
TOM DOWD & THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC profiles the extraordinary life and legendary work of music producer / recording engineer Tom Dowd. Historical footage, vintage photographs and interviews with a who's who list of musical giants from the worlds of jazz, soul and classic rock shine a spotlight on the brilliance of Tom Dowd, whose creative spirit and passion for innovative technology helped shape the course of modern music. Tom Dowd's credits include recording sessions with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers Band, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Cream, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Booker T. & the MG's and countless other musical luminaries.
Includes Music & Interviews with Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, The Allman Brothers Band, Les Paul, Otis Redding, Thelonious Monk, Booker T. & the MG's & many more!
The Language of Music Reviews:
stupid 
2009-12-03 - This dvd is a stupid one. You have to read everything before you buy it!
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music - very interesting and well done 
2009-08-18 - This DVD contains a great collection of pictures and some video from recording in the early 50s through the 80s. Interviews, while sometime frivolous in content, are interesting because of who the interviewees are and how they are played against each other. In general the historical content is handled well, and Tom Dowd, a talent that will be missed, is shown in a truthful yet endearing manner. Loved it!
Tom Dowd, the music engineering genius
2009-08-14 - I could call myself an amateur music historian. I prefer to think of myself as a music history nut. No study of modern music history would be complete without viewing this video. It tells how Tom Dowd, the lead audio engineer at Atlantic Records, helped create his sound. Interviews with Dowd help music history students and rock music history lovers understand what a profound influence audio engineers have had on the sounds we all enjoy.
Tom explains, mostly in layman's terms, how he created the sounds that went onto the records and how the artists were "discovered" by Atlantic, Stax, and other record producers. Many stars in the business are interviewed, from Ray Charles, to the Allman Brothers, showing how Dowd helped them create the sound they were looking for without him being too overbearing on sensitive artists' creativity. In doing so, Dowd was as much a A&R man and a publicist as he was an audio engineer. He was nothing short of a genius and this video tells his story as well as the story of music creation during early rock'n'roll better than any of the books I've read.
More than this, the video tells how Dowd, Atlantic, and Stax were foremost in breaking down the walls of segregation in the south through music and helped bring soul music to the masses. I highly recommend this video to anyone who loves rock music and would like to know more about it's history.
Worth Seeing
2009-06-21 - Mandatory veiwing for anyone connected with the industry; and thoroughly enjoyable watching for anyone who loves the music.
Thorough overview of a key music man
2009-05-12 - Anyone viwing this probably already knows the Tom Dowd story. Still, this is a very complete look at the many innovations made by Tom Dowd during his long career at Atlantic Records where he recorded many of today's classic r&b, rock and jazz hits. For music experts and those interested in music history, this dvd hits the right note.
