Tom Werman - Turn it Up!
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:52 pm
Got this for Christmas, and just finished it.
I presume pretty much everyone here knows that Tom was behind the desk for the early Motley Crue material, Twisted Sister, Winger, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Poison, REO Speedwagon, Stryper...loads of bands, though definitely not all Dino.
He writes in a nice readable style, but I was disappointed - he's far too superficial when it comes to the actual production of the albums. There is the occasional nugget: eg. Mick Mars' cab sounded "tired" (old battered cones), so he double tracked everything to make it sound better, and didn't get what he considered to be a really good tone until Girls Girls Girls.
But often you pretty much get "I worked with the band and we came up with a good album".
He's done some interviews on YouTube (or one long one that's been carved up) and there was a lot more information coming from that than you get in the book.
The first part, when he's talking about working as an A&R man, is probably more interesting as a read, such as how his boss passed on Rush, Kiss and Lynyrd Skynyrd (so he got Molly Hatchet instead).
Wasted opportunity IMO. Trevor Horn's book (categorically NOT Dino) has way more of that sort of stuff.
I presume pretty much everyone here knows that Tom was behind the desk for the early Motley Crue material, Twisted Sister, Winger, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Poison, REO Speedwagon, Stryper...loads of bands, though definitely not all Dino.
He writes in a nice readable style, but I was disappointed - he's far too superficial when it comes to the actual production of the albums. There is the occasional nugget: eg. Mick Mars' cab sounded "tired" (old battered cones), so he double tracked everything to make it sound better, and didn't get what he considered to be a really good tone until Girls Girls Girls.
But often you pretty much get "I worked with the band and we came up with a good album".
He's done some interviews on YouTube (or one long one that's been carved up) and there was a lot more information coming from that than you get in the book.
The first part, when he's talking about working as an A&R man, is probably more interesting as a read, such as how his boss passed on Rush, Kiss and Lynyrd Skynyrd (so he got Molly Hatchet instead).
Wasted opportunity IMO. Trevor Horn's book (categorically NOT Dino) has way more of that sort of stuff.
