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Fifty Years Behind the Console with Rock and Roll's Greatest Artists
The artist gets the marquee. The lights get the stage. He gets the dark.
For fifty years, Buford Jones stood where almost no one looked: behind the console in the middle of the crowd, carrying the music of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Prince, and many more to the audience whole. This is his story, told firsthand.
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★ Inside the book
For fifty years, Buford Jones stood where almost no one looked: behind the console in the middle of the crowd. He mixed front of house for Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Prince, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, and many others.
From a carless garage in Port Arthur to stadiums, television studios, filled passports, and a classroom at Belmont University, he built a life around one promise: carry the artist's work to the audience whole.
Mama Bakes the Cake and I Serve It is a firsthand memoir about music, trust, precision, the road, and an art form that vanishes when the last note fades, but lives on in the people who serve there.
★ Front of house for
Thirty two multi platinum artists, and a great many more besides.
Led Zeppelin sits outside this list on purpose. Buford supplied additional PA and assisted the band's mixer on multiple Showco shows. He did not mix the band, and he has never claimed otherwise.
Mixed and edited the sound for the very first MTV Unplugged, featuring Eric Clapton.
Engineering and mixing credits on Pink Floyd's 1988 live album and concert film.
Helped pioneer new approaches to stereo, quadraphonic, and surround sound for the concert stage.
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