Brendan O'Brien (record producer)

Brendan O'Brien
Born (1960-06-23) June 23, 1960
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Occupation(s) Record producer, musician
Instruments Guitar, keyboards, vocals, percussion, mandolin, bass
Years active 1985–present
Associated acts Bob Dylan, The Gaslight Anthem, AC/DC, Ernie Dale & The Road Rangers, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Billy Talent, Seether, Incubus, Sons of the Sea, The Fray, King's X, Train, The Last Internationale, Wolfmother

Brendan O'Brien (born June 23, 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.[1] He has worked with such artists as Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bruce Springsteen, Mastodon, AC/DC, Incubus, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Train, Audioslave, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Kansas, Ernie Dale, The Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Soundgarden, The Offspring, Korn, The Fray, Gaslight Anthem, The Killers, and My Chemical Romance.[2][3]

His career blossomed as a young guitarist with a local Atlanta band by the name of "Pranks" signed by then Century Artists Management. (Century Artists went Defunct earliest 1980's) The management company had the best of Atlanta and the region in those days including the likes of "Mother's Finest" "Ezra Pound" and a dozen other "super-regional" acts. His studio career was propelled by the success of the first Black Crowes album, Shake Your Money Maker, on which he played guitar and bass and engineered.

In the mid 1990s, O'Brien became vice president of Epic Records and the Epic imprint 57 Records.[1] He also played a Hammond organ for Bob Dylan's appearance on MTV Unplugged. In 1995 he joined Pearl Jam and Neil Young on keyboard for the Mirror Ball tour across Europe.[4]

In 2002, he won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album for his work on Bruce Springsteen's The Rising. In 2009, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. To date, fourteen of the albums O'Brien has produced have reached #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 200 Charts.

Recordings

References

  1. 1 2 Sandler, Adam, "O'Brien's Epic Deal," Variety.
  2. ↑ Austin L. Ray, "All Those Yesterdays: Brendan O'Brien Reminisces on the Evolution of Pearl Jam and the Making of Backspacer," Paste Magazine, September 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Grammy Winning Producer Brendan O’Brien Gives Advice To New Artists," Renman Music & Business, August 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ Andy Greene, "Q&A: Pearl Jam Producer Brendan O'Brien on the Making of 'Lightning Bolt,'" Rolling Stone Magazine, July 31, 2013.

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