- Ethan James (producer)
Ethan James (born Ralph Burns Kellogg (
1946 -June 22 ,2003 )) was amusician ,record producer , andrecording engineer best known for his work on the Minutemen's seminal album "Double Nickels on the Dime ". He also produced and engineered albums for such acts as Black Flag,The Bangles ,Rain Parade , Dos, and many others. Many of these recordings were undertaken at Radio Tokyo Studio, the recording facility he founded in the early 1980s.Under his real name, he was a member of the heavy metal band
Blue Cheer not long after they released their hit cover of "Summertime Blues". He was also very famous for playing thehurdy gurdy and thesymphonium . He was considered to be a master of the hurdy gurdy,a medieval instrument, and returned to peforming as of 1989. He performed with the San Francisco Mozart Festival Orchestra, among others. [ [http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:L1r2vAA7GhUJ:www.blogofdeath.com/archives/000110.html+%22Radio+Tokyo+Studio%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca Ethan James obituary] , July 10, 2003; www.blogofdeath.com.]James died of liver cancer in
San Francisco .References
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