Ep196: Spot - Producer, Engineer & Witness to Music History
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Spot was a producer, engineer and an essential ingredient to the Southern California Punk Rock sound, helping bands like Black Flag, Descendents, Minutemen, Misfits and Hüsker Dü get their music to tape and onto vinyl. Today Spot shares stories of those days and colours in some insider details.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 1:02.3 | groove washer bundle 10% off with promo code Vinyl Guide 10. Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to the |
| 1:13.3 | Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest |
| 1:18.5 | record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Well, look you there. The theme music is back. Hey, everyone, |
| 1:23.7 | it's Nate, host of the Vinyl Guide. Thank you so much for tuning in this week. |
| 1:28.1 | It is a very exciting episode today. We are talking with Spot, producer, and engineer of so many great punk records, |
| 1:37.5 | effectively overseeing much of the early output of record labels like SST, New Alliance, and more. |
| 1:43.5 | If you have any of those early punk records, |
| 1:45.9 | turn them over, and chances are you'll see either produced or engineered by Spot. And today, |
| 1:52.0 | we are talking with the man. It was Spot's job to get that music recorded, get that music |
| 1:57.8 | onto records, and he often went well above and beyond the call of duty. |
| 2:02.5 | Today, Spot is going to share his memories of those sessions, the creation of the records, |
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