The World Is Going To Love This : Up From The Basement With The Strokes

Legendary music producer, Gordon Raphael has spent four decades working with musicians, performers and songwriters to create unique genre-defining sounds. His work with THE STROKES, REGINA SPEKTOR and THE LIBERTINES has made him one of the world's most sought-after music producers. What's his secret?�This book gives an insider's view into how music is created and recorded, sharing insights into the artistic discoveries that happen when a group of talented musicians find the right studio, the right producer and the right sound.�Like sitting on the purple velvet couch at New York's fabled Transporterraum Studio, this rock `n' roll memoir gives an All Access Pass to the processes and techniques, the people and the performances.�It's the early 2000s and, for the first time, young people who've grown up hating their parent's rock music, have found a reason in the songs of NYC newcomers THE STROKES to drop their electronica, house and techno for guitars, Converse, leather jackets-to form their own bands. Focussing on the eight-year period from the demise of the Seattle grunge scene to the rebirth of a thrilling cultural shift in New York and London that reimagined rock 'n' roll. Gordon Raphael shares his tales of musical glory and loss, creative triumphs and breakups. It's a bumpy ride with a killer soundtrack.