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Were this a live, in-person evening, it would be a short road trip for bestelling music writer Peter Ames Carlin, as he is virtually here from his Portland home to discuss his newest book, Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince (Henry Holt). The biographer of musicians as Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, and the Beach Boys, here turns his eye to a record company that was in the thick of it all during a pivotal time in contemporary music history.