"Tape's Rolling, Take One": The Recording life of Adrian Kerridge: Six Decades of Recording and Producing, from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Years to TV Scores & Blockbuster Movies! - Tapa blanda

Adrian Kerridge was part of the British recording industry for the past 50 years. His revolutionary and often forthright approach within the music industry put him at the centre of the recording world for half a century. As owner of the eminent Lansdowne Studios - birth place of the Dave Clark Five, and home to numerous household name artists and session stories as well as the cofounding father of the CADAC console brand - he witnessed first-hand the technological changes of an industry transitioning from analogue tape to multi-track to digital recording and editing in the 80s and forwards; was a forerunner in the 60s of the then experimental practice of direct injection – now widely employed by sound engineers and laid the foundations for a more modern upfront sound that was lacking in the 50s and early 60s.
Renowned for creating unique sonic signatures for bands and other recording artists, Adrian’s approach to recording was unlike anything the industry had seen in the years previous. He recorded “hot”, clean and gutsy while his contemporaries were more conservative in their approach.

This book traces his personal and professional journey from war time Britain to the swinging 60s. 
Imparting his professional knowledge through his explanations and diagrams intertwined with the remarkable story of his life 

Adrian Kerridge 1938 – 2016 

People talk about the late, great Sir George Martin as being The Fifth Beatle and he certainly deserves such an accolade, not least for pro- ducing their legendary and ground-breaking records. By that same to- ken, Adrian Kerridge surely has to be the sixth member of The Dave Clark Five (The DC5). While still in his twenties, Adrian totally got what we were all about and thanks to his empathy for The DC5 as artists - along with his technical wizardry in the studio - he managed to capture the essence of our live stage sound on analogue tape. Who could have known back in those heady days of the 1960’s when we were all so young that fifty years on our records - with Adrian at the studio controls - would stand the test of time and still manage to thrill people? Bruce Springsteen has publically stated that he is not only a DC5 fan but that he studied some of the studio techniques Adrian and The DC5 developed and applied them to some of his own recordings. Praise comes no higher! Indeed in a filmed interview Bruce generously said, “The DC5 made some of the greatest Rock And Roll records ever made; those were big, powerful, nasty- sounding records, man; a much bigger sound than, say, The Stones or The Beatles. They were thrilling, inspiring, simply exciting. To this day they are still great productions.” In the studio Adrian was a one-man band with no assistants; not only was he the engineer and tape operator but he also set up, maintained and fixed all the studio equipment as well as the Tape’s Rolling, Take One DC5’s equipment. When in 1998 the Association of Professional Recording Services honoured Adrian with their prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award - as they had done with Sir George Martin the previous year - it gave me great pleasure to present the award to Adrian. That recognition from his peers for his ground-breaking technical achievements confirmed what The DC5 and their fans worldwide had always known from the evidence of our own ears: that behind the scenes of Rock And Roll’s great era, Adrian was a true creative innovator. Dave Clarke