Rodger Bain

Rodger Bain (born c. 1945) is a British former record producer, known for producing heavy metal albums by bands such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest in the 1970s.

Career

He was the producer of Black Sabbath's first three albums, Budgie's first two albums, and Judas Priest's first album, Rocka Rolla. Bain dominated the production of Priest's first album and made decisions that the band did not agree with Bain chose to leave fan favourites from the band's live performances, such as "Tyrant", "Genocide", and "The Ripper," off the album. As well, he cut the song "Caviar and Meths" from a 10-minute song down to a 2-minute instrumental.^{[citation needed]} Another example is of the Black Sabbath compilation album "Club Sonderauflage".^{[citation needed]}

He also produced the Judas Priest album Hero, Hero, which contained remixed versions of the tracks on Rocka Rolla. Both of these Judas Priest albums received a lot of negative reviews.^{[citation needed]}

In 1981 he formed his own Record label called Blue Chip/Cygnet Records and signed bands such as The Kicks, releasing their single "If looks could kill" in 1982.^{[citation needed]}

He subsequently went on to produce Barclay James Harvest, producing their first two albums for Polydor, Everyone Is Everybody Else and Barclay James Harvest Live. Although he reportedly did not get on with the band, the albums are highly regarded.

In the Last Supper DVD, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler describes Bain positively and claims that he let them record their album live which was and still is an uncommon method of recording, when other producers had refused. This is also how he is said to have produced the other albums mentioned above.