Jack Douglas was a man who favored to be within the room the place it occurred — and he helped make plenty of music occur throughout his profession as a recording producer and recording engineer.
The Bronx native — who handed away earlier this week on the age of 80 — studied on the Institute of Audio Analysis in New York and, beneath the steering of co-owner Roy Cicala, rose from janitor to a home producer on the Recording Plant in New York Metropolis.
He engineered the Who’s abortive Lifehouse classes, together with tracks that wound up on Who’s Subsequent, in addition to John Lennon’s Think about earlier than Bob Ezrin inspired Douglas to supply after watching him do the heavy lifting on the New York Dolls’ 1973 debut album.
He quickly grew to become “our George Martin,” in line with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, producing seven albums for the band through the years, together with its key ’70s titles and later releases similar to 2003’s Honkin’ on Bobo and 2012’s Music From One other Dimension!
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He additionally helmed initiatives by Low-cost Trick, Supertramp, Starz and Zebra, in addition to extra modern acts similar to Clutch, Native H and Slash’s Snakepit.
Douglas was prolific within the TV world as nicely, notably engaged on the Persona Disaster: One Night time Solely documentary concerning the late David Johansen.
Most lately Douglas was working his personal label, Make Data, whose roster included Robin Taylor Zander (aka RTZ), son of the Low-cost Trick frontman.
“I really like being a part of the group,” Douglas informed UCR in 2023.”I like having these preliminary conferences with the artist, developing with a imaginative and prescient, speaking concerning the songs and the sounds we wish — simply being a part of the entire artistic group and serving to to make the music as nice as it may be.”
Douglas was nice as a rule — particularly on these 10 key albums from his discography…
Prime 10 Jack Douglas Albums
Jack Douglas was a man who favored to be within the room the place it occurred — and he helped make plenty of music occur throughout his profession as a recording producer and recording engineer.
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