Tom Rothrock
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Tom Rothrock is an American record producer, composer and musician. Tom Rothrock has produced albums with James Blunt, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Yonder Mountain String Band, Athlete, Sloan and Roman Carter. James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, has been credited as the largest selling record worldwide of the decade (2000). The album also entered the Guinness Book of World Records, with most albums sold in a year in the UK, when it sold 2,368,000 copies in 2005.
Tom Rothrock also produced (along with Rob Schnapf) Elliott Smith's albums Either/Or, XO (on which he also created the drum loop for the song "Independence Day") and Figure 8. The duo also produced and mixed the Foo Fighters, Toadies, Wool, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Fu Manchu and Richard Thompson.
Rothrock, along with Schnapf and partner Bradshaw Lambert started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s, which is notable for releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Rothrock first heard Beck when he saw him jump onstage to play in between bands during a show at Jabberjaw and approached him afterwards about recording his songs. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's critically acclaimed major label debut.
In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R.L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release.
Rothrock produced, recorded and mixed James Blunt's album All the Lost Souls. In 2007, Rothrock released his own instrumental solo debut titled Resonator on the re-launched Bong Load Records.
He produced the record "Unfold" by Marie Digby.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Solo
- 2007 Resonator
[edit] Produced and Mixed
- 1991: Timespace - The Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
- 1991: Swallow This Live – Poison
- 1992: Budspawn – Wool
- 1993: Fishy Pants – Muzza Chunka
- 1993: Test Your Own Eyes – Dog Society
- 1994: Box Set – Wool
- 1994: Mellow Gold – Beck
- 1995: Rubberneck – Toadies
- 1995: Daredevil – Fu Manchu
- 1995: Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
- 1996: Mic City Sons – Heatmiser
- 1996: Static Prevails – Jimmy Eat World
- 1996: Odelay – Beck
- 1997: Mr. Wizard – R.L. Burnside
- 1997: Soundtrack – Good Will Hunting
- 1997: Either/Or – Elliott Smith
- 1998: Come On In – R.L. Burnside
- 1998: Aquamosh – Plastilina Mosh
- 1998: XO – Elliott Smith
- 1999: Mock Tudor – Richard Thompson
- 2000: Figure 8 – Elliott Smith
- 2000: Supreme Beings Of Leisure – Supreme Beings Of Leisure
- 2001: Hell Below/Stars Above – Toadies
- 2002: About A Boy – Badly Drawn Boy
- 2002: Have You Fed the Fish? – Badly Drawn Boy
- 2003: Third Shift Grotto Slack – Jay Farrar
- 2003: Action Pact – Sloan
- 2004: Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock – George Thorogood
- 2004: Launchpad – Particle
- 2005: Back To Bedlam – James Blunt
- 2005: Exploration – Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
- 2005: Surgery – The Warlocks
- 2005: Leaders Of The Free World – Elbow
- 2006: Yonder Mountain String Band – Yonder Mountain String Band
- 2007: Never Slow Down – Roman Carter
- 2007: New Moon – Elliott Smith
- 2007: All The Lost Souls – James Blunt
- 2008: Unfold – Marie Digby
- 2009: Black Swan - Athlete
[edit] Film Composition
- 2001: Spygame - soundtrack
- 2004: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- 2004: Collateral
[edit] External links
- 10 Years of Mellow Gold Documentary (retrospective documentary done for anniversary of the Beck's first album, features interviews with Rothrock)
