I started at Electric Lady in New York, running errands for five dollars a day. I ended up in Los Angeles at The Village, One On One and Cherokee, building rooms and living in them. A lot of years of listening to clients and artists and meeting their expectations of the final product.

I’ve been lucky with the work — Alice in Chains, Korn, Metallica, Primus, and 3 Doors Down are among others that still get named. Jar of Flies. Unplugged. Follow the Leader. The Better Life.  Those records taught me the same thing: stay with the artist. Don’t try to invent a version of them that isn't them.

If they already have a vision for the record they want to make, I help them get it down. If they don’t quite know yet, we figure that out together. That’s part of it, not an extra.

Live work is the same idea, just fewer chances to try again. I built the SuperTruck so you don’t have to go to a studio.