Bob Ezrin (born 1949 in Toronto, Ontario) is a musician and record producer. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing
Professional background
Bob Ezrin attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute High School in Toronto, graduating in 1967.
As a record producer, Ezrin first attained fame in the 1970s, producing classic albums for Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, and Kiss. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer songwriter and musician whose career spans five Lewis Allan Reed (born March 2 1942 is an American rock Singer-songwriter and Guitarist. Pink Floyd are Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950 in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English Musician and Songwriter. Kiss (also typeset as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972 Perhaps the most well-known work Ezrin produced is Pink Floyd's The Wall. The Wall is a Rock opera presented as a Double album by the English Progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late He has been described as having an intense personality, and as the "Francis Ford Coppola" of record producers. Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award -winning American Film director, His production style tends to employ arranging techniques from classical music. Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music On his first solo album, Peter Gabriel felt that the track "Here Comes the Flood" was over-produced by Ezrin and thus Gabriel created a far simpler rendition which can be found on Robert Fripp's album, Exposure. Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a Guitarist, Composer and a Record Exposure is a Rock music solo album by guitarist Robert Fripp, best-known as the only constant member of the Progressive rock band He is noted as an innovator and technical groundbreaker, having been one of the earliest adopters of multi-machine recording and computer sequencing, sampling, and editing. In the 1980s and '90s Ezrin worked with numerous artists including David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Rod Stewart, Hanoi Rocks, Heroes del Silencio, Julian Lennon, Bonham, The Jayhawks and Kula Shaker. David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers Pink Floyd are Lewis Allan Reed (born March 2 1942 is an American rock Singer-songwriter and Guitarist. Roderick "Rod" David Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945 is a Singer and Songwriter born and raised in London England and currently Hanoi Rocks are a Finnish Glam punk band formed in 1979 whose most successful period came in the early 1980s Héroes del Silencio (sometimes referred to as just Héroes) is a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza ( Aragon, John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) known universally as Julian Lennon, or by many fans Jude, is an English Bonham was a British Hard rock band founded by drummer Jason Bonham in 1989 the son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham The Jayhawks are an American Alternative Country and Rock Band. Kula Shaker are an English multi-platinum selling Psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era Ezrin has continued to produce successfully into the late 1990s and 2000s, working with such artists as 30 Seconds to Mars, Catherine Wheel, Jane's Addiction, The Darkness, The Villebillies, Nine Inch Nails, Puya, Deftones and Army of Anyone. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 30 Seconds to Mars (or Thirty Seconds to Mars and often abbreviated to 30STM) is an American rock band from Los Angeles California Catherine Wheel were a four-piece Alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth, England. Jane's Addiction is an American Alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles California in 1985 The Darkness were a multi- BRIT Award -winning British Hard rock / Glam rock band The Villebillies '' are an original rap/rock band from Louisville Kentucky. Deftones is a rock band from Sacramento California formed in 1988 consisting of Army of Anyone was a supergroup formed by Filter frontman Richard Patrick with two of the former members of rock band Stone Temple Pilots
In 1993, he co-founded a computer software company called 7th Level which developed and published educational and entertainment CD-ROMs including a highly popular and groundbreaking series of Monty Python games. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) 7th Level was a Video games development company based in Dallas Texas and founded in 1993. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British Television In 1999, he co-founded Enigma Digital, an internet radio provider. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Internet radio (also known as web radio, net radio, streaming radio and e-radio) is an audio Broadcasting service transmitted via It was eventually sold to Clear Channel, where he became vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive. Clear Channel Communications is a media conglomerate company based in the United States.
Ezrin co-produced the documentary film Fade to Black, starring Jay-Z, which was released in November 2004. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Fade to Black is a 2004 documentary about the career of US rapper Jay-Z. Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1969 better known as Jay-Z, is an American Rapper and former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella
Ezrin was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the Juno Awards in April 2004 and into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in March, 2006. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in Music. The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian Musical Artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Ezrin is a trustee of NARAS, Vice President of the Mr. The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc is known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS. Holland's Opus Foundation, a member of MusiCan, CARAS' music education initiative and, along with U2's the Edge and Henry Juszkiewicz the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, a co-founder of Music Rising (www. David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, East London) more widely known by his Moniker The Edge, is a Musician known best The Gibson Guitar Corporation of Nashville Tennessee, USA is a manufacturer of acoustic and Electric guitars The company's most popular guitar Music Rising is a charity co-founded by Producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz with much support from U2 's The Edge, to help in the purchasing musicrising. org), an initiative to replace the musical instruments that were destroyed or lost in the gulf coast region due to the hurricanes and flooding of 2005.
In 1982, Ezrin briefly appeared as the host of Enterprise, a City-TV panel show replacing Dr. Morton Shulman's The Schulman File. Morton Shulman ( 25 April 1925 &ndash 18 August 2000) was a Canadian politician businessman broadcaster columnist coroner and
Ezrin is married and has six grown children and a dog.
Bob Ezrin is currently the head of Live Nation Recordings. Live Nation Inc is a live Events company based in Beverly Hills California. He is exclusively represented by Jim Phelan and Jerimaya Grabher at Global Positioning Services in Los Angeles and works with @radicalmedia in New York on film, television and theatrical productions. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous
List of albums produced by Ezrin
- Alice Cooper
- Love It to Death - (1971)
- Killer - (1971)
- School's Out - (1972)
- Billion Dollar Babies - (1973)
- Welcome to My Nightmare - (1975)
- Alice Cooper Goes to Hell - (1976)
- Lace and Whiskey - (1977)
- The Alice Cooper Show - (1977)
- DaDa- (1983)
- Brutal Planet - (2000)
- Dragontown - (2001)
- Army of Anyone
- Army of Anyone - (2006)
- Catherine Wheel
- Adam and Eve - (1997)
- David Gilmour
- About Face - (1984)
- Deftones
- Saturday Night Wrist - (2006)
- Hanoi Rocks
- Two Steps From The Move - (1984)
- Escape From Earth
- Three Seconds East - (2004)
- Héroes del Silencio
- Avalancha - (1995)
- Bonham
- The Disregard of Timekeeping - (1989)
- Hurricane
- Over the edge - (1988) (co-produced by Mike Clink)
- Jane's Addiction
- Strays - (2003)
- The Jayhawks
- Smile - (2000)
- Kansas
- In the Spirit of Things - (1988)
- The Kings
- The Kings Are Here - 1981
- KISS
- Destroyer - (1976)
- Music from "The Elder" - (1981)
- Revenge - (1992)
- Kula Shaker
- Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts - (1999)
- Nine Inch Nails
- "The Fragile" - (1999) (Album Sequencing Assistant)
- Our Generation
- "Our Generation" - (1971)
- Peter Gabriel
- Peter Gabriel (I) - (1977)
- Pink Floyd
- The Wall - (1979) (co-produced by David Gilmour, Roger Waters and James Guthrie)
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason - (1987) (co-produced by David Gilmour)
- The Division Bell - (1994) (co-produced by David Gilmour)
- Robin Black
- Instant Classic - (2005)
- The Villebillies
- Greatest Moment -single - (2006)
External links
- Bob Ezrin at the Internet Movie Database
- "Thank God For Trent Reznor" on Torontoist, April 19, 2007
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