Ed Stasium

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Ed Stasium

Ed Stasium is an American music producer , sound engineer, and multi-instrumentalist .

Life

Stasium began his career in 1970 as a singer and guitarist for the band Brandywine , whose only album Aged was a commercial failure. The band then broke up again. He subsequently showed no further ambitions to be on stage and instead worked in the background. First he worked as a studio sound engineer from 1973, including for recordings of Gladys Knight , The Chambers Brothers and Sha Na Na . Stasium took in 1977, both the album Talking Heads '77 the Talking Heads and the second album of Ramones , Leave Home on. The meeting with the Ramones led him to a career as a music producer; at Rocket to Russia he worked alongside his work as a sound engineer as a co-producer. From Road to Ruin , he produced numerous albums for the band, including It's Alive , the soundtrack for Rock 'n' Roll Highschool and Too Tough to Die .

In the 1980s, Stasium produced Living Color , Soul Asylum and Julian Cope, among others , and was involved as a sound engineer on recordings of Mick Jagger , the Talking Heads and Carly Simon . In later years he produced The Smithereens , Motörhead , Hoodoo Gurus and Reverend Horton Heat, among others . On the posthumously released album ... Ya Know? by Joey Ramone he played numerous instruments, including accordion , electric bass , guitar and piano .

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