What are you favorite Prog Rock producers
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Topic: What are you favorite Prog Rock producers
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: What are you favorite Prog Rock producers
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 18:27
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?? I don't really know any, I just realized, besides Alan Parsons. Is it because most of out bands do it themselves? If you have any favorite, list why and what albums they have worked on. Aaron |
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 19:32
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I have a sincere interest in this, please reply Aaron |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 19:39
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mmm...Alan Parson is not a producer, he is a sound technician!!!... mmm, let´s see I like Archen Lucanssen...his album always sound excellent Eddie Offord did a great job helping Yes find their sound...you can really notice that he is not in Going for the one... Robert Fripp is also very good...but that´s just because I love everything that the guy does. ...I don´t really know many... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 19:44
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Bob Ezrin is an excellent producer. Did a great job on The Wall & MLOR. Greg Lake did a great job on BSS! |
Posted By: DaleHauskins
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 20:17
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England's John Acock,(Steve Hackett/John Hackett/Nick Magnus/Adrian
Legg/Rick Wakeman/Flame Dream/etc.); without a doubt what so ever.As a youth I learned soo much from him as a producer;as I was a member & guitarist of Switzerland's prog rock band FLAME DREAM.Mr.Acock use of Studers,tape and engineering/Mixing is amazing.I am blessed to know him.Dale Hauskins(Los Angeles guitarist of Switzerland's FLAME DREAM(6LPs Vertigo Phonogram AG). |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 03:37
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Posted By: Jools
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 07:27
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I've always liked Chris Kimsey, he produced Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and Clutching At Straws and also Killing Joke and some early Cult, there may be many more bands that I don't know of. He had a way of making everything sound pretty crisp without anything sounding too big which was very rare of rock in the 80's. None of the albums he has produced that I have heard sound dated. He may not strictly be a "prog" producer but I would consider buying albums with his name on them. ------------- Ridicule is the burden of genius. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 08:25
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I must say I usually have no idea who produces an album. That's what interests me in the least. I know Nick Mason produced Steve Hillage's "Green".
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:20
Easily Terry Brown (love what he did for Rush) 
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:43
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Eddie Offord with what he did for Yes. In the age of vinyl he made crappy stereos and hi-fi's sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. "The Yes Album" was a HUGE step forward in fidelity. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:43
| Eddie Offord. |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 09:48
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Good one!! He also did excellent work for Fates Warning and many other bands!! |
s1ipp3ry wrote:Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 14:14
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Yeah, I would have to go with Offord as well. ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 15:40
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Me too Eddie Offord. He really did a great job with Yes and ELP. And I always liked David Hentschel, who worked with Genesis. I like Trevor Horn too, but the albums he produces can seldom be called prog. And since the Beatles are officially prog these days: George Martin!!! |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 16:19
And Shamal if I remember correctly, among other albums .------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 16:58
A.A. Lucassen ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: DoubleD
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 17:32
| Terry Brown, primarily for Moving Pictures. The production on that album is impeccable. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 20:14
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Rupert Hine is an excellent producer! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 20:22
and ELP as well the prog producer without peer IMO. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: andYouandI45
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 20:48
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What dose a producer do? I have always wondered this but i have no idea. |
Posted By: CryoftheCarrots
Date Posted: March 13 2006 at 21:30
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David Bottrill Tripple Grammy award winner,produced for Peter Gabriel,Tool,King Crimson,David Sylvian,Mudvayne,Silverchair etc. |
Posted By: DrGoon
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 03:30
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One of the greatest progressive rock producers of all time was Conrad (Conny) Plank, legendary Brain Records producer of Cluster, Ash Ra, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Grobschnitt, Guru Guru, Holger Czukay and almost everybody else of importance in Germany. You almost certainly know his sound - if you need something more well known and modern, listen to In The Garden by The Eurthymics (their first, most transcendant and finest album) or Ultravox's Vienna. John Anthony is pretty darned important too - early works by all of VDGG, Genesis, Roxy Music, Lindisfarne, Al Stewart, and Queen. I'm surprised that there's been no mention of Hugh Padgham, who's done more engineering with progressive rock bands than production, but who is very famous for producing the Genesis sound of the 80s (not a big fan of this period of Genesis myself, but the production's great) the later Police albums (which are expansive, beautiful and captivating). Good that people picked Terry Brown - in my mind, his absence is a large part of the reason Rush's later albums miss the mark, even when full of strong compositions. Steve Hillage, Brian Eno and Todd Rungren are among progressive rock artists who are also important producers of many others' work. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 08:31
How did Lake manage to make BSS sound like it was being played through a transistor radio?? I like David Hentshell (Genesis) and Terry Brown (Rush) Other producers I like; Eddy Offord, Hugh Pagdam (although not with Genesis - he should be locked up for the hash he made of those already awful albums) ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 08:38
I wonder then, what albums with Hugh Padgham do you like? |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 08:41
A producer is basically in charge of bringing an album together. They control the recording process and will help the band to realise their musical ideas with whatever techniques they possess. A producer can make or break an album. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 09:32
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Gus Dudgeon was always a name I looked for TP, on the UK and US level, you are right : one might even say that a producer is an artistic director However in Continental Europe a producer is more the one financing the record (from the studio to the factory), but this varies greatly. In terms of Author's right (divided in three parts: Author - lyrics, Compser- music, and producer) he gets almost 50% (which I find scandalous). But he is the one taking the (calculated) risk ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 14 2006 at 12:14
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Just something I have been thinking about lately, for example I was looking at some Camel albums and they use the same producer for 3 consecutive album, so it makes me wonder if this producer has produced any other great albums but i have no good way of looking this up... or do I? Aaron |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:04
As far as I know there has never been a book on producer Maybe worth investigating on this
In Germany in the early 70's Conny Plank was definitely THE producer, (along with Dieter Dierckx, I think) Almost every album he produced is an excellent one ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:54
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Has anybody mentioned Terry Brown yet? Oh yes Blacksword has. Doh!! ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |