Published in: Off My Jammy #11
Published on: 12-02-2013
Just what do rockers eat in the studio? Is Courtney Love really the girl with the most cake? Let’s get the “skinny” from our esteemed panel of music producers: Keith Cleversley/Chicago: Has seen Flaming Lips, Hum, Posies, and Urge Overkill eat. Jack Endino/Seattle: Has seen Supersuckers, Soundgarden, Zeke, L7, and Mudhoney eat. Don Fleming/NYC: Has seen Hole, Sonic Youth, Shonen Knife, and Alice Cooper eat. Do you have any rules about food or drink in the...
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Published in: Billboard
Published on: 08-12-1995
…and more things happened to my sheer amazement in the mid-1990’s than I ever thought possible; this time, it was an album that I engineered and produced with a band I adored called “HUM”. They made it to #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker chart on August 12 of 1995. I can’t remember a day I woke up without feeling like the luckiest person alive. Everything was still so new to me, and living a life as a successful (in my mind) record producer...
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Published in: BMG Music
Published on: 10-04-1993
In my 1993 pea brain, nothing said “You’ve made it!” more than having an album you produced with the BMG “Choose X Number of CD’s for FREE!” offers that flooded mailboxes in the early 1990’s. I couldn’t believe that the album I had just finished producing (“You’d Prefer an Astronaut” by HUM) was being offered next to the Pretenders and Stone Temple Pilots (who I loved, despite Wayne Coyne telling me that...
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Published in: Melody Maker
Published on: 10-04-1992
In the same Melody Maker issue where Medication was #1 on the “Indie 45’s” chart, this is the blurb about the song “Medication” from the EP of the same name. I was still in school, and still shell-shocked that I was not only getting paid to make music, but getting paid to make music with bands I already knew and adored. As dysfunctional as I was at the time, that simple fact made it difficult for me to do anything other than put the...
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Published in: Melody Maker
Published on: 10-04-1992
This was my first #1 “hit” as a newly-minted record producer. I had recently traveled to the U.K. to do front of house for Mercury Rev’s debut show in London, at an amazing venue called “The Grand.” At the mixing board, I had set up a wah wah pedal, a keyboard, my entire racks of effects, as well as a trombone. Even though I was enrolled in the Bachelor of Science Sound Recording Technology program at Fredonia University, I never had any...
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