Jimmy Guttermans 33 Rules of Bad Music Making, part 1: Lets Prove Jimmy Wrong.

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Hah, Jimmy was a consulting editor at the dot-com I used to work for. Forgot all about him... Nice guy. Whip-smart.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I wrinkled my little nose over those two list books when they came out but the website convinces me that he seems like a decent enough sort.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

32. Do not record cover versions of Motown or Stax/Volt hits.

the slits, "i heard it through the grapevine"

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Live records should reflect what a performance actually sounded like when it occured. We loved the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense until we found out how many studios were used for postproduction.

Find a counterexample? He did all the work for us.

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

"Yeah, I wrinkled my little nose over those two list books when they came out but the website convinces me that he seems like a decent enough sort."

Guterman's book on Jerry Lee Lewis, "Rocking My Life Away," is terrific and I recommend it highly. And you can read it on his website, if I'm not mistaken. The two "list books" I didn't like much. The "Worst Records" book has a shrill tone of condescenion and humorlessness, even if most of the records included *are* awful. George Grimac and Pat Reeder wrote a much better version of that type of book with "Hollywood Hi Fi."

― James, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

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