Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
Brendan O'Brien | |
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| Born | June 30, 1960 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, musician |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, keyboards, vocals, percussion, mandolin, bass |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Brendan O'Brien (born June 30th, 1960) is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.[1] He has worked with such artists as Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bruce Springsteen, Mastodon, AC/DC, Incubus, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Train, Audioslave, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Kansas, The Black Crowes, King's X, Aerosmith, Soundgarden, The Offspring, Korn, The Fray, Gaslight Anthem, The Killers, Third Day, Lifehouse and My Chemical Romance.[2][3]
His career blossomed as a young guitarist with a local Atlanta band by the name of "Pranks" signed by then Century Artists Management. The management company had the best of Atlanta and the region in those days including the likes of "Mother's Finest" "Ezra Pound" and a dozen other "super-regional" acts. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the band Samurai Catfish.
His studio career was propelled by the success of the first Black Crowes album, Shake Your Money Maker, on which he played guitar and bass and engineered.[citation needed]. He started working in collaboration with newcomer to the LA music scene, Jimmy Boyle, who would go on to record and produce bands including the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Andrew Dice Clay. Boyle credits everything he knows from production, to recording, to even song writing to Brendan and his influence as friend and mentor.
In the mid 1990s, O'Brien became vice president of Epic Records and the Epic imprint 57 Records.[1] He also played a Hammond organ for Bob Dylan's appearance on MTV Unplugged. In 1995 he joined Pearl Jam and Neil Young on keyboard for the Mirror Ball tour across Europe.[4]
In 2002, he won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album for his work on Bruce Springsteen's The Rising.[5] In 2009, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.[6] To date, fourteen of the albums O'Brien has produced have reached No. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard 200 chart.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b Sandler, Adam, "O'Brien's Epic Deal," Variety.
- ^ Austin L. Ray, "All Those Yesterdays: Brendan O'Brien Reminisces on the Evolution of Pearl Jam and the Making of Backspacer," Paste Magazine, September 18, 2009.
- ^ "Grammy Winning Producer Brendan O’Brien Gives Advice To New Artists,"[permanent dead link] Renman Music & Business, August 28, 2012.
- ^ Andy Greene, "Q&A: Pearl Jam Producer Brendan O'Brien on the Making of 'Lightning Bolt,'" Rolling Stone Magazine, July 31, 2013.
- ^ "Past Winners Search"
- ^ "Past Winners Search"
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