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Neil Young and Rick James used to be in a band together. Neil Young is color blind and epileptic. The Eagles carved their career specifically to be rich and successful. Bruce Springsteen isn't the brightest of bulbs. As a breed, record label owners and musicians' personal managers are giant tools. David Geffen got super-rich mostly due to good timing. Much of the what we know as the music industry was formed by individuals who aspired to be rich and influential power players, not by the development or nurturing of good music or musicians. The success of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album was preordained and the product of a marketing juggernaut. Jon Landau was never a good record producer but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway.

There -- that's a gross oversimplification of "Mansion on the Hill", with a couple of fun facts tossed in.

I've been reading quite a few books lately on the record business and the movie business (emphasis on the word "business"). "Mansion on the Hill" is one of the better ones I've read, but its impact on me was sort of like learning as a kid that there was no Santa Claus. There is often an ugly and depressing truth under any facade of glitz and glamour, and MOTH peels back each layer to show you the behind-the-scenes players, the histories, the pettiness, and the ugly manipulation.

What little respect you may still have for the music business will be whittled down to next to nothing before you are finished with this book.

It's a fascinating read nonetheless.

Good companion books to read with this one include "Hit Men" (published 7 years before this one but might be better if read after this one) and "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Business in the Digital Age" (to be read after MOTH).

The music business is steadily being eroded from the inside. It's almost over, folks. Music has now officially become "product" (and that's not really news). And if you watch "American Idol" and buy those contestants' records, you are probably part of the problem.

I feel bad for young kids today who grow up thinking that the new junk they hear on the radio today is good music. They're just too young to know how deluded they really are -- or how much they've been robbed.


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The Mansion on the Hill Dylan Young Geffen Springsteen and the Headon Collision of Rock and Commerce Fred Goodman 9780679743774 Books Reviews

my husband is reading the book and he really likes it. he says it give you a different perspective on the growth of music in my ge ge ge neration
THis books seems to be a great footage of rock articles. IT presents no definitive theory about the rock industry, nor it gives a real portrait of the rock scenario through the years. It only gives separeted pieces of histories about Springsteen, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Peter Frampton, Grateful Dead, MC-5 and a handful of others. The writing style is dry and badly developed. DOn't recommended.
Needed this book for a class, and ended up really enjoying it! Awesome read.
arrived promptly and was as advertised
Great book.
Interesting look at the music and radio businesses at one point in time. The appeal of the book is primarily with anyone who grew up with Boston radio in the '60's and early '70's but is an enjoyable read for anyone else.
Most underated book about rock history. This guy tells it like it really happened. Prepare to have your little rock heroes bashed around a bit, possibly. No punches pulled, the real story is told here, filling in the blanks to the history of rock. This will really help you understand why you were listening to that lamo junk music on the radio when Led Zeppelin II was collecting dust!
Neil Young and Rick James used to be in a band together. Neil Young is color blind and epileptic. The Eagles carved their career specifically to be rich and successful. Bruce Springsteen isn't the brightest of bulbs. As a breed, record label owners and musicians' personal managers are giant tools. David Geffen got super-rich mostly due to good timing. Much of the what we know as the music industry was formed by individuals who aspired to be rich and influential power players, not by the development or nurturing of good music or musicians. The success of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album was preordained and the product of a marketing juggernaut. Jon Landau was never a good record producer but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway.

There -- that's a gross oversimplification of "Mansion on the Hill", with a couple of fun facts tossed in.

I've been reading quite a few books lately on the record business and the movie business (emphasis on the word "business"). "Mansion on the Hill" is one of the better ones I've read, but its impact on me was sort of like learning as a kid that there was no Santa Claus. There is often an ugly and depressing truth under any facade of glitz and glamour, and MOTH peels back each layer to show you the behind-the-scenes players, the histories, the pettiness, and the ugly manipulation.

What little respect you may still have for the music business will be whittled down to next to nothing before you are finished with this book.

It's a fascinating read nonetheless.

Good companion books to read with this one include "Hit Men" (published 7 years before this one but might be better if read after this one) and "Appetite for Self-Destruction The Spectacular Crash of the Record Business in the Digital Age" (to be read after MOTH).

The music business is steadily being eroded from the inside. It's almost over, folks. Music has now officially become "product" (and that's not really news). And if you watch "American Idol" and buy those contestants' records, you are probably part of the problem.

I feel bad for young kids today who grow up thinking that the new junk they hear on the radio today is good music. They're just too young to know how deluded they really are -- or how much they've been robbed.