Eric Valentine
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Eric Dodd, known professionally as Eric Valentine,[1] is an American record producer, who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride.
He subsequently produced albums for artists such as Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, The All-American Rejects, and Slash, among others.[2] He is engaged to Grace Potter and they had a son born on January 12, 2018.
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Early life
Dodd's first experience with music was listening to The Monkees as a child and wanting to play drums. He received a three-piece drum set from a garage sale, leading to him taking drum lessons at the age of 9. Around that same time, Dodd started listening to bands such as Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Kiss, along with jazz fusion bands such as Weather Report from drum teachers. His father's career as an aerospace engineer was enough for him to get a four-track and learn on his own.[3]
Discography
- T-Ride - T-Ride (drummer/backing vocals/producer/mixing; 1992)
- The Conscious Daughters - Ear to the Street (engineer/instrumentation; 1993)
- Paris - Guerrilla Funk (engineer; 1994)
- Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani (engineer on "Luminous Flesh Giants" and "Look My Way", piano/additional engineering on "Cool #9", bass/keyboards/percussion on "Luminous Flesh Giants"; 1995)
- The Conscious Daughters - Gamers (mixing engineer; 1996)
- Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking (producer/mixing/voice actor; 1997)
- Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (programming on "Semi-Charmed Life" and "Motorcycle Drive By", piano on "Thanks a Lot" and "God of Wine", guitar/keyboards/programming on "I Want You", engineer/co-producer/mixing; 1997)
- Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang (keyboards/percussion/groovy noises/engineer/producer/mixing; 1997)
- Braids - Here We Come (arrangements/programming/engineer/producer; 1998)
- Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (drums/percussion/producer on "Psycho Monkey", bass/drums/keyboards/percussion/engineer/producer/mixing on "Time"; 1998)
- Brougham - "I Walked In" (mixing; 1998)
- Vital Information - Where We Come From (mixing; 1998)
- Tom Coster - From the Street (mixing; 1999)
- Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge (additional keyboards/vibraphone/engineer/producer/mixing; 1999)
- Citizen King - Mobile Estates (engineer/producer/mixing; 1999)
- Snake River Conspiracy - Sonic Jihad (producer; 2000)
- Dwarves - Come Clean (engineer/producer/mixing; 2000)
- Deathray - Deathray (synthesizer/keyboards/producer; 2000)
- Smash Mouth - Smash Mouth (writer on "She Turns Me On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2001)
- Scapegoat Wax - Okeeblow (engineer/producer/mixing on "Space to Share" and "Perfect Silence", writer on "Perfect Silence"; 2001)
- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (producer except "The Sky Is Fallin'" and "Do It Again"; 2002)
- Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless (writer on "A New Beginning", string arrangement/engineer/producer/mixing; 2002)
- Kelly Osbourne - "Papa Don't Preach" (producer; 2002)
- Lostprophets - Start Something (engineer/producer/mixing; 2004)
- John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again (mixing/additional parts on "She's Got Baggage"; 2004)
- Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death (writer on "Once Upon a Time: The Battle of Life and Death", string arrangement/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2004)
- Dwarves - The Dwarves Must Die (engineer/producer/mixing; 2004)
- Skye Sweetnam - Noise from the Basement (writer on "Number One"; 2004)
- Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die? (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2005)
- Aslyn - Lemon Love (producer on "Be the Girl", "493-1023", "Ain't No Love", and "You Got Me"; 2005)
- Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now (engineer/producer/mixing; 2006)
- Smash Mouth - Summer Girl (engineer/producer/mixing on "So Insane", "Story of My Life", and "Right Side, Wrong Bed", drum producer/mixing for "Everyday Superhero", vocal producer for "Quality Control"; 2006)
- Mellowdrone - Box (engineer on "Oh My", "Four Leaf Clover", "Fashionably Uninvited", "Fuck It Man", and "Whatever the Deal"; 2006)
- Persephone's Bees - Notes from the Underworld (drums/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2006)
- Aqualung - Memory Man (additional production/mixing; 2007)
- Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd. (producer/mixing on "5 Times Out of 100"; 2007)
- Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long (engineer/producer/mixing on "Little of Your Time" and "Can't Stop"; 2007)
- Jesca Hoop - Kismet (additional engineering; 2007)
- The All-American Rejects - When the World Comes Down (drum corp/orchestration composer on "Real World", programming/engineer/producer/mixing; 2008)
- Tracy Hamlin - Better Days (instruments/engineer/producer on "Free"; 2009)
- Jackiem Joyner - Lil' Man Soul (drums on "Take Me There"; 2009)
- Theo Tams - Give It All Away (writer on "Wait for You"; 2009)
- Slash - Slash (piano on "Ghost", keyboards on "I Hold On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2010)
- Steve Lukather - All's Well That Ends Well (writer on "Tumescent (Instrumental)", drums; 2010)
- Chris Standring - Blue Bolero (drums on "Please Mind the Gap" and "March of the Bowler Hats"; 2011)
- Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday (engineer/producer/mixing; 2011)
- Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Born Again (editor/mastering/engineer/mixing; 2011)
- The Wombats - This Modern Glitch (engineer/producer/mixing on "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)" and "1996", vocals on "1996", additional production/engineer on "Techno Fan"; 2011)
- Slash - Apocalyptic Love (writer on "No More Heroes", producer; 2012)
- Smash Mouth - Magic (engineer/producer/mixing on "Don't You (Forget About Me)"; 2012)
- Steve Lukather - Transition (drums on "Last Man Standing", "Do I Stand Alone", and "Rest of the World"; 2013)
- Blag Dahlia - "Metrosexual Man" (drums/vocals on "Metrosexual Man", mixing on "Metrosexual Man" and "The Simple Life"; 2013)
- Dwarves - The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll (mastering; 2014)
- Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line (percussion/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014)
- 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer (mastering/additional production/mixing on "She Looks So Perfect"; 2014)
- The Madden Brothers - Greetings from California (producer on side A; 2014)
- Supersuckers - Get the Hell (mastering; 2014)
- Nightmare and the Cat - Simple (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014)
- 5 Seconds of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good (mastering/mixing; 2015)
- The Wombats - Glitterbug (engineer/producer; 2015)
- Grace Potter - Midnight (producer/mixing; 2015)
- Richard Elliot - Summer Madness (drums; 2016)
- Peter White - Groovin' (drums on "When Will I See You Again"; 2016)
- Good Charlotte - Youth Authority (mixing on "Makeshift Love"; 2016)
- Grace VanderWaal - Perfectly Imperfect (mastering; 2016)
- Gwen Stefani - You Make It Feel Like Christmas (editing/engineer/lap steel guitar/percussion/producer; 2017)
- Death from Above 1979 - Outrage! Is Now (producer; 2017)
- The Story So Far - Proper Dose (mixing; 2018)
See also
References
- ^ "San Fernando Valley record producer sued by girlfriend alleging lifetime-support promise". Los Angeles Daily News. February 1, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
- ^ Quillen, Shay. "Hit-making Nickel Creek tries to catch its breath". Oakland Tribune. April 27, 2007; retrieved February 23, 2008.
- ^ "Make Your Mark With Eric Valentine". Vintage King Blog. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
External links
- BareFoot Recording, Valentine's studio