Jack Douglas (music producer)

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Jack Douglas (* in New York City ) is an American music producer and sound engineer .

Life

Jack Douglas first appeared as a musician. In 1965 he traveled with a friend to Liverpool , where they were refused entry due to the lack of a visa and the Liverpool newspapers only reported on "Two crazy Yanks ".

After his return to the United States, he recorded an album of the same name with the band Privilege in 1969 . He then worked in the New York Record Plant recording studio, where he worked his way up from caretaker to sound engineer. There he was later involved in recordings for Miles Davis , The James Gang , Alice Cooper , Cheap Trick , Montrose , Rough Cutt and Artful Dodger , among others .

In 1971 he met John Lennon while recording his album Imagine after he had spoken to him about his trip to Liverpool. In 1980 Douglas produced Lennon's last album, Double Fantasy , which was named Best Album at the 1982 Grammy Awards . After Lennon's death, the planned follow-up album Milk and Honey was not released until 1984 and Jack Douglas was not mentioned as a co-producer, although he was involved in the production of several titles. A dispute with Yoko Ono over unpaid royalties later ended in court.

In the 1970s Douglas produced several albums for the band Aerosmith , including Get Your Wings (1974), Toys in the Attic (1975), Rocks (1976) and Draw the Line (1977). After a short hiatus, Douglas produced the album Rock in a Hard Place for Aerosmith in 1982 . The follow-up albums were implemented by other producers, but in 2004 Douglas produced the Aerosmith album Honkin 'on Bobo . The band's 15th album, Music from Another Dimension! , was produced by Douglas.

Douglas teaches as a guest lecturer at the Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview with Jack Douglas: Part 3 - Blowing Up In The Music Business in expression.edu, accessed on February 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Jack Douglas Interview in Beatlefan, 1999 , accessed February 10, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States