TY - BOOK AU - Ames,Richard TI - Live music production: interviews with UK pioneers SN - 9780815373728 (pbk.) : U1 - 781.6'6143 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Rock concerts KW - Production and direction KW - Great Britain KW - Stage-setting and scenery KW - Sound engineers KW - Interviews KW - Stage lighting designers KW - Stagehands KW - Music KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - This title presents the days of live music production in the UK spanning the late '60s to the mid-'80s, when rock music was enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity. Richard Ames takes you on a true behind-the-scenes journey of discovery. Learn who the people were, where they came from and how they went on to pioneer the first companies that would become the lifeblood of a unique industry. The interviews contained in this book record and present the raw stories of a few of the original innovators who set the stage for their performers but also for the hundreds of technicians who would tour the world following in their footsteps. The pioneers presented in these interviews share with the reader countless candid anecdotes that convey how their curious enthusiasm, energy, dedication, and general can-do attitude was the driving force behind the creation of the many companies we know of as common place today ER -