Mar 30
I am excited to announce that the long-awaited 6-track SPLIT EP featuring 3 songs from The Filthy Dix and 3 songs from Disfunction will be released shortly through the Necro21 label ON CASSETTE! (Vinyl, CD, & Digital may follow) … I engineered all 6 songs on the EP. The cover art, featuring a “split” skateboard …
Jul 01
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Dave Jerden discusses working with The Offspring on ‘Ixnay on the Hombre’ and ‘Americana’: “I was down in the Bahamas, recording at Compass Point, and I got a call from my manager telling me that Dexter from The Offspring wanted to meet with me. Dexter flew down the next day and told me that …
Jun 28
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 “They were the big buzz band in Los Angeles, getting a lot of press. I’d seen them a few times – sometimes they were OK, other times they were great, and sometimes they were just crappy. They were all over the place. “I went to see them on this one particular night at a …
Jun 21
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Here, Dave Jerden discusses working with Alice in Chains on the ‘Facelift’ album. “When I met with the band, I told Jerry Cantrell, ‘Metallica took Tony Iommi and sped him up. What you’ve done is you’ve slowed him down again.’ And he looked at me and said, ‘You got it.’ That’s how I got …
Jun 14
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Here, Dave Jerden discusses working with Social Distortion on their self-titled album: “Mike Ness had done some time in prison. After he got out, he made a record called Prison Bound that was really good. Nobody was really that interested in him or the band. I met with him and thought he was great …
May 28
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Here, Dave Jerden discusses his time working with The Red Hot Chili Peppers “I’d seen the band playing in town before they got signed, and I thought they were great. Steve Moir at MCA Records suggested that I get involved. I met with Andy Gill from the Gang Of Four, who was producing the …
May 21
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Here, Dave Jerden discusses working with Brian Eno and David Byrne: “I did this at Eldorado. It’s funny because I actually lied at the time: I put an ad in the paper and said that we had a Lexicon 224 digital reverb, which we didn’t. I got a call from somebody who said that …
May 19
Thom Wilson was a very prolific engineer/producer for punk rock bands, especially from the California scenes. Sadly, he died last year. Here are a couple of articles about the man following his death, along with several of the recordings he produced/engineered: http://www.ocweekly.com/music/punk-rock-heroes-remember-thom-wilson-6594134 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/thom-wilson-offspring-and-dead-kennedys-producer-dead-20150316
May 18
http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/production-legend-dave-jerden-on-13-career-defining-records-586973 Here is an interesting excerpt from Dave Jerden, discussing working with The Talking Heads: “We did this record after Bush Of Ghosts, but it came out first. A couple of months after I finished with Brian Eno and David Byrne, I call a call from Brian in the Bahamas asking me if I could …
