Rick Rubin: In the Studio

This books is barely even about Rick Rubin. There's more information about the Chili Peppers than Rubin... The whole but is just a collection of quotes from magazines. Don't waste your money just hope that someone will do a real autobiography of Rubin one day.

I'm still working my way through it. On the one hand, it is an interesting read, especially if you are interested in recording production. But, I will say that it appears as though the writer just read a bunch of magazine interviews and assembled a book. It's not as though he had special access to Rubin or anything like that. I don't know, maybe the best is at the end, but I'm halfway through and I would say its enjoyable, but not great.

It's written a bit like a research paper. Once you get past the early years, the book seems to turn into an analysis of the record making process itself which is more musician/band focused than Rubin-centric, so each chapter feels a little formulaic. All in all, if you're a fan of Rubin you find yourself going back to all of the records in the book and that's where this book really connects. I dare you not to go back to those RHCP albums after this book. Overall not bad insight, but I'm still waiting for the man himself to write his own autobiography, but I'm sure he's too busy making killer records to worry about that.

It's not going to teach you any tricks or strict practices or secrets. It's going to share a lot of Rick Rubin (in the studio )and still leave you largely uninformed about Why the Cash albums sound so good or RHCP or any of it really. Not useful, nice stories.

This book seems to be pieced together from past published interviews with Rubin and artists he has worked with. If you are already a fan you probably won't learn anything new. The author did not appear to interview Rubin for this book. It felt like re-reading old Guitar Player magazine articles rather than a book.

This book contains no interviews or quotes from Rick Rubin. It's pretty much just a summary of his work. It's not very in-depth regarding his recording process, which is what I was hoping for. It more just catalogues the producer's career. The same information can be found for free on Wikipedia.

It's at least the best book I've read on Rubin but I wouldn't call it anything overly indepth or ground breaking. It's still a worthwhile and quick read.

Very interesting read. Well worth checking out!

Being the first to write an in-depth book on the legendary producer Rick Rubin, you would have thought the author would have grabbed the opportunity to provide a definitive book.The result:- you will learn much more reading Wikipedia...and it's free. This is an incredibly lazy excuse for a book with little or no depth. The chapters on certain major artists/albums are embarrassingly short with no details. In short - save your money!!!All in all this does not give much confidence for the forthcoming Motorhead "In the Studio" book by the same author, although I believe in that book at least the author made the effort to interview somebody.

Was ich mir versprochen hatte: Einen Bericht von jemanden, der mit Rubin lange im Studio zusammengearbeitet hat und jetzt über die Zusammenarbeit mit Rubin, seine Art an die Musik, die Produktion und die Künstler heranzugehen, berichtet - Spannende "Hinter-den-Szenen-Berichte" und Informationen, die man so sonst nirgends bekommen kann.Stattdessen ist es eine Sammlung von Interviews mit den Musikern und Bands, mit denen Rick Rubin gearbeitet hat, die man so auch im Internet zusammensuchen kann (was man wahrscheinlich eh schon gemacht hat, wenn man Infos über Rubin sucht). Rubin selbst kommt nicht zu Wort, außer es ist wieder aus einem Interview kopiert worden.Für mich war dieses Buch sehr enttäuschend.

E' poco più che un collage di articoli apparsi sulla stampa musicale, mi aspettavo di più. C'è molto poco che non si possa reperire su internet, e questo, oggi, conferisce scarso valore ad un libro.

Accurate and speedy😊

The right book to learn how he works