Bob Weston
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Bob Weston is an American musician, producer, recording engineer, and record mastering engineer. Critic Jason Ankeny[1] declares that "Weston's name and fingerprints are all over the American underground rock of the post-punk era, producing and engineering dates for a seemingly endless number of bands." As a performer, Weston is best-known as the bass guitarist in the groups Volcano Suns and Shellac.
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Weston was born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lowell in Lowell, MA.
During the summers of 1985 and 1987, he marched with the Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from Garfield, New Jersey. The corps won the Drum Corps International World Championships in both those years. He played the soprano bugle in 1985, and the mellophone bugle in 1987. Weston still plays trumpet, as on the albums The Sea and the Bells by Rachel's (1996) and Things We Lost in the Fire by Low (2001).
While working at the University's campus radio station, WJUL, he began mixing live performances of local Boston bands such as The Pixies and the Blake Babies.
In 1987 Weston joined The Volcano Suns, playing bass guitar. The group was led by Peter Prescott, (previously the drummer for Mission of Burma, who had broken up in 1983). When Mission of Burma reformed in 2002, Weston replaced Martin Swope, who had added live tape loops to the group.
Weston joined Steve Albini and Todd Trainer in Shellac in 1991. Under Albini, Weston honed his studio production skills and has gone on to record and mix material for bands including Sebadoh, June of 44, Polvo, The Coctails, Archers of Loaf, The Delta 72, Chavez, Idlewild, Rachel's, Ken Vandermark, and Rodan. Bob Weston was also Albini's Assistant Engineer on Nirvana's In Utero album.
In 2002, Weston joined the reunited Mission of Burma, taking the place of Martin Swope as tape manipulator and live engineer for the band. He appears on and recorded the albums ONoffON, The Obliterati, and The Sound The Speed The Light.
In early 2007, Weston opened Chicago Mastering Service with Jason Ward on Chicago's west side.
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