Bob Clearmountain

Bob Clearmountain is an award-winning American music engineer, mixer and producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen (he mixed his classic album "Born in the U.S.A."), The Rolling Stones (he mixed their singles "Miss You" and "Out of Tears"), Bryan Adams (he mixed all his albums except the first one and also produced some of them), Robbie Williams ("Intensive Care"), Toto, Bon Jovi ("These Days", "Crush", "Bounce"), Altered State, and many others.

He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and won a Latin Grammy Award in 2007 for Best Male Pop Vocal Album for his work with engineering Ricky Martin's "MTV Unplugged". He has also been nominated for an Emmy and he has won seven TEC Awards for "Best Recording Enginner", two others for "Best Broadcast Engineer", one special "Les Paul Award" and a Monitor Award for the Rolling Stone's "Voodoo Lounge" pay-per-view show.

Clearmountain played bass on The Dead Boys' first album, "Young, Loud and Snotty", before Jeff Magnum rejoined the group.

Selection of his work as a producer

*Toto's "Kingdom of Desire"
*Paul McCartney's "Tripping the Live Fantastic" album.
*The Who's "Join Together" album.
*Jonatha Brooke's " [http://www.jonathabrooke.com/music/steady-pull/ Steady Pull] " and "Careful What You Wish For" albums.
*The Pretender's "Get Close" album.

Selection of his work as a mixer engineer

*Altered State (band) 1991 album "Altered State".
*Kool and the Gang's 1974 album "Light of Worlds".
*Willy DeVille's 1987 album "Miracle".
*The Rolling Stone's "Still Life", "Tattoo You", "Stripped" and "Live Licks" albums and their singles "Miss You" and "Out of Tears".
*Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, "Tunnel of Love", "Live/1975-85", "Lucky Town", "The Seeger Sessions" and "Tracks" albums.
*Bryan Adam's "Reckless", "Waking Up the Neighbours", "Unplugged" and "On a Day Like Today" albums.
*Bon Jovi's "These Days", "Crush" and "Bounce" albums.
*Robbie William's "Intensive Care" album.
*Roxy Music's "Avalon" album (including their single "More Than This").
*Bryan Ferry's "Dylanesque" album.
*Sheryl Crow's "Wildflower" album.
*The Corrs' "Forgiven Not Forgotten", "Talk On Corners" and "Unplugged" albums.
*Aimee Mann's "Whatever" and "Bachelor #2" albums.
*Rufus Wainwright's eponymus first album.
*INXS' "Kick", "Full Moon, Dirty Hearts" and "Welcome to Wherever You Are" albums.
*David Bowie's "Never Let Me Down" and "Let's Dance" albums.
*The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" single.
*Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk to Me" single.
*Tina Turner's "Back Where You Started" single.
*Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery Woodstock 94 (Live Recording Engineer).
*Crowded House's "Temple of Low Men" album.
*Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2005)
*Jenifer's (french singer) "Lunatique" album

External links

* [http://www.mixthis.com/ Bob Clearmountain's homepage]
* [http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun99/articles/bobclear.htm "Master Mixer Bob Clearmountain" Sound on Sound]