Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. I'm coming to you now with a very special episode of the Vinyl Guide podcast.

Now, many of you have likely heard last week, March 4th, 2023 to be exact,

Glenn Michael Lockett, better known as Spot, producer and engineer of some of the greatest American hardcore records ever made, died last week.

Spot was 71 years old.

And if you own any records from the SST label, you've probably seen his name on the credits.

Produced by Spot.

I mean, that was always a sign of quality when you picked up an SST record.

It's on the label's most pivotal early records, including albums by Black Flag, Descendants, Minutemen, Hoosker Doe.

Oh, geez, Meat Puppets, St. Vitus, Tons more.

And Spot's sonic fingerprints are all over albums like Zen Arcade, Damage, Milo goes to college,

My War, even some non-SST releases like Misfits, Earth AD, Wolf's Blood.

Again, those are there thanks to Spot.

And although he's now gone, he's left this huge body of work behind for all of us to

enjoy. And I was lucky enough to talk to Spot a few years ago in May 2019, if my show

records are accurate. And we spoke for about an hour and 20 minutes. Now, that full interview,

a full hour and 20 minutes, was made available at the time to our

Patreon supporters. We always put extra stuff up there for our supporters. But I only shared about

50, 55 minutes of this interview in the public feed. So there's a lot of people who haven't

heard the whole thing. So today, in memory of Spot, I'm going to share the full interview.

I think one hour and 17 minutes, I think, is the total running time.

I'm going to share it totally commercial free, whatever, just going to put it out there in the

hopes that some of this information helps carry the knowledge and legacy of Spot just a little bit further.

...