A Spy in the House of LoudA Spy in the House of Loud
New York Songs and Stories
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Book, 2018
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Current format, Book, 2018, First edition., Available . Offered in 0 more formatsPopular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, ?the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.? In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery?s CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were rewriting the rules. Just twenty-two years old and newly arrived from North Carolina, Stamey immersed himself in the action, playing a year with Alex Chilton before forming the dB?s and recording the albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion, which still have an enthusiastic following. A Spy in the House of Loud vividly captures the energy that drove the music scene as arena rock gave way to punk and other new streams of electric music. Stamey tells engrossing backstories about creating in the recording studio, describing both the inspiration and the harmonic decisions behind many of his compositions, as well as providing insights into other people?s music and the process of songwriting. Photos, mixer-channel and track assignment notes, and other inside-the-studio materials illustrate the stories. Revealing another side of the CBGB era, which has been stereotyped as punk rock, safety pins, and provocation, A Spy in the House of Loud portrays a southern artist?s coming-of-age in New York?s frontier abandon as he searches for new ways to break the rules and make some noise.
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