Bruce Botnick is a noted American record engineer and producer, best known for his work with The Doors, and with Love. An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. 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 This article is about the band For their self-titled debut album see The Doors (album; for the Oliver Stone film see The Doors (film; for Doors in computing Love was an American Rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s He engineered Love's first two albums, and co-produced their third album, Forever Changes, with the band's singer-songwriter, Arthur Lee. Forever Changes is the third album released by the Los Angeles -based band Love. Arthur Lee ( March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was the frontman songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles rock band Love
In November 1970 he took over production of The Doors' L.A. Woman album -- their last with lead singer Jim Morrison -- after the band's long-serving producer Paul A. Rothchild fell out with the group over the album's direction. LA Woman is The Doors ' sixth and last Album recorded with lead singer Jim Morrison. James Douglas Morrison (December 8 1943—July 3 1971 was an American Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Writer, and Film director Paul A Rothchild ( April 18, 1935 - March 30, 1995) was a prominent American Record producer of the late 1960s and 1970s Bruce also has a credit as assistant engineer on the Rolling Stones Let It Bleed album. He later produced Eddie Money's first two albums, Eddie Money in 1977 and Life For The Taking in 1978. Eddie Money (born Edward Joseph Mahoney, March 21 1949) is an American rock Singer-songwriter who found success in Eddie Money is the self titled debut album by American musician Eddie Money originally released in 1977 Life for the Taking is Eddie Money 's second album released in 1978 Botnick also produced two albums for Paul Collins' rock group The Beat, including 1979's The Beat and 1982's The Kids Are The Same. The Beat, sometimes referred to as The Paul Collins Beat or Paul Collins' Beat, were an American Power pop group from Los Angeles, California
Botnick had a long-running association with film composer Jerry Goldsmith as his scoring recordist and mixer. Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith ( February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American Film score Composer Botnick first met Goldsmith on 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture and they worked together on most of Goldsmith's film projects - numbering over 100 - from the 1980s through to Goldsmith's death in 2004. Star Trek The Motion Picture is a 1979 Science fiction film from Paramount Pictures.