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Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Steven Stiefel, Ken Caillat
kaelynputnam's review
4.0
I love the mixture of technical info and band stories. It's the perfect book for an FM nerd!
abbeyhar103's review
3.0
A pretty poorly written book, but an interesting insight into the making of one of my favorite albums, as well as the way recording/record labels working thirty years ago.
jhommas's review
4.0
Fantastic book about an album I have listened to countless times. The book gives me a different insight to each song when I listen to it now. If you enjoy the Rumours album read the book and learn what went into each song. The book paints a vivid picture of the complexity of making a classic album
creative_bookworm's review against another edition
informative
reflective
5.0
I always hate rating someone’s memoir anything less than 5 stars because who am I to judge their life and how they write about it? However, this one earns its stars! This man must have kept meticulous notes or have a photographic memory because the detail is extraordinary. I did lose interest a little when he got into the very detailed specifics of production, but the personal stories and behind the scenes drama I was looking for was worth it!
niamhdo's review
3.0
Pretty similar review to the Tusk book tbh. Ken Caillat talks about himself… a lot. And like it a super objectifying way towards women like all he ever thinks about is women and how he wants to sleep with them and giving us details about it, even when he has a girlfriend. Also I’m sorry I don’t care that you got crabs. I’m hear to read about Fleetwood Mac not your sexual escapades.
I wanted more specifics about each song like what the lyrics meant. I felt like the Tusk book did that a lot better but not this one. Again a lot of detail on the recording process which seems really tricky back then but not my interest.
Also Stevie Nicks deserves better and fuck Lindsey Buckingham x
Justice for Silver Spring
I wanted more specifics about each song like what the lyrics meant. I felt like the Tusk book did that a lot better but not this one. Again a lot of detail on the recording process which seems really tricky back then but not my interest.
Also Stevie Nicks deserves better and fuck Lindsey Buckingham x
Justice for Silver Spring
lcvanoss's review
4.0
Anyone else finish Daisy Jones and The Six, turn around and get immediately and fully obsessed with Rumours? Just me? TJR has said the story draws on many different rockstar stories, but the seed for Daisy and Billy came from Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham. I googled, ‘Books about Fleetwood Mac,’ and picked this memoir by Ken Callait, sound engineer turned producer (and Colbie Callait’s dad!) I was hoping for a good balance between personal drama and musical details and It. Did. Not. Disappoint. Let me just give you a taste of page 1:
‘You never know when you’re going to be a part of history. I was driving down to Salsalito in my Audi with my dog Scooter in the passenger seat.’
Now, I recognize that this is one person’s perspective, but I enjoyed it immensely, and am not planning to round it out. Ken is kind of the straight man of the group, always telling everyone to just do ‘a little’ cocaine so as not to mess with the sound. He gets a little too cozy with misogyny talking about how hot the studio girls were in the good ol’ days, but it helps that the women in the band are very good at putting him in his place. The title is very accurate. This is not about tour, and it is not about anything that came before or after Rumours. It is a detailed account of the painstaking work a bunch of extremely talented and very strung out people put into this one record. Hit me up if you ever want to discuss the courvoisier Stevie Nicks drank as a vocal tonic, why you should always add Silver Springs at the end of the track list, or the absolute ICON that is Christine McVie. #obsessed
‘You never know when you’re going to be a part of history. I was driving down to Salsalito in my Audi with my dog Scooter in the passenger seat.’
Now, I recognize that this is one person’s perspective, but I enjoyed it immensely, and am not planning to round it out. Ken is kind of the straight man of the group, always telling everyone to just do ‘a little’ cocaine so as not to mess with the sound. He gets a little too cozy with misogyny talking about how hot the studio girls were in the good ol’ days, but it helps that the women in the band are very good at putting him in his place. The title is very accurate. This is not about tour, and it is not about anything that came before or after Rumours. It is a detailed account of the painstaking work a bunch of extremely talented and very strung out people put into this one record. Hit me up if you ever want to discuss the courvoisier Stevie Nicks drank as a vocal tonic, why you should always add Silver Springs at the end of the track list, or the absolute ICON that is Christine McVie. #obsessed
nssutton's review
DNF about 100 pages in. My toxic trait is reading books authors reference as being their great inspiration and then not seeing whatever they saw in it. This time, made worse by the fact it was an ILL hold and the library knows I’m reading it because TJR used it as a touch point for Daisy Jones and the Six. Hard to warm to Caillat, can just look up the gossipy bits elsewhere.
historienne18's review
4.0
I love this album. So so much. I enjoyed the book, especially hearing the epiphanies and break through of some of the songs. The author would take me out with random sentences talking about how hot girls looked in their jeans, but the stories of the music were excellent.