Tom Werman

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Tom Werman (* 1945 in Boston ) is an American music producer who was a leader in the hair metal genre .

Life

Wermann grew up in Boston and played acoustic guitar in local folk groups . He spent his college years in New York City and played in various cover bands . In 1965 his group had an audition with Brian Epstein , but for fear of the Vietnam War , the group turned down the offer. Wermann moved to Columbia Business School and graduated in marketing in 1969 . He got bored while working for an advertising agency and tried to switch to the music business. As an A&R assistant , he hired Epic Records (a subsidiary of Columbia Records at the time ) and signed the group REO Speedwagon and later Ted Nugent .

Besides his work in A & R worked Werman Edit versions of singles (shorter versions of songs for use on the radio). Wermann became a co-producer at Nugent, which is produced by his manager Lew Futtermann . At Cheap Trick he learned the final tricks as an assistant to producer and manager Jack Douglas and took over the production of the second Cheap Trick album In Color . He then became their regular producer. Until 1982 he produced Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, Blue Öyster Cult and Molly Hatchet , after which he left Epic and switched to Elektra Records , first as A&R, but then as a music producer.

In the 1980s, he helped shape the hair metal scene from the start. Among other things, he produced Mötley Crües Girls, Girls, Girls , Shout at the Devil and Theater of Pain , Twisted Sisters Stay Hungry and Poisons Open Up and Say… Ahh! . Other bands he worked with were Krokus , LA Guns , Dokken and Stryper .

With the decline of hair metal in the 1990s, its successful phase also ended. In 2000 he produced the soundtrack for the film Rock Star and in 2008 a single for the Australian band Geisha. Werman had largely withdrawn from the music business the years before and now works with his wife Suky as a restaurateur with their own Stonover Farm inn in Lenox , Massachusetts .

literature

  • Alexander Kolbe: Tom Wermann: Make-up for millions . In: ROCKS - The magazine for classic rock . 06, November / December, 2009, ISSN  1867-9404 , p. 64-65 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of the inn owners Stonover farm. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008 ; Retrieved October 25, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Werman, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston