David Lee
bulletproof86@yahoo.com
The following is a general overview of the past 25 years. Complete discography/list of references available upon request.
2000-Present: Recording Engineer/Mixer/Producer. Most recent projects are mixing records for Levon Helm's live
Midnight Ramble Sessions, also mixing various studio productions for Hipbone Records. Other clients/artists include punk/groove artist Johan Kugelberg, r&b/blues/rock/black americana singer Queen Esther, reggae/rock band Bad Brains, and engineer at Miles Copeland's seasonal "Castle" event in France. The Castle is a songwriting "bootcamp" for successful recording artists such as Mark Eitzel, Pat MacDonald, Duncan Sheik and Stewart Copeland to name only a few. Also recorded & mixed a 20-CD set of September '03 live performances in support of the Alejandro Escovedo Fund. The artists in this set range from '70's glam star Ian Hunter (of Mott The Hoople fame) to Los Lonely Boys (the young "Ramones" of the current Tex-Mex Austin scene).
1991-2000 : Chief Recording Engineer: Harold Dessau Recording. Engineered recordings for innumerable artists including The Beastie Boys, The The, and Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion. Major label credits for Sony, Mercury, Atlantic, and more. Worked as producer for Atlantic Records. Involved in a number of projects under the tutelage of producer Stephen "Haggis" Harris, including his own band, The Four Horsemen, on Rick Rubin's Def American label.
1980-1991 -- Musician/Recording Engineer/Producer. Guitarist/Bassist/BV-ist & sometimes songwriter for a number of NYC-based rock bands (Band Of Outsiders, Jon King & The Cats, His Master's Voice, Tongues On Fire, and Wendy Wild's craziest confabulation, The Roaring Potheads). Besides the bands, productions include numerous "Track Shows" for NYC live-performance artists, contributions to the Goldwyn film
Wigstock and music for several independent films.
1980-1983: Engineer/Studio Manager: Sundragon Recording. This is the studio that helped invent punk rock in the late-70's. Being the studio manager meant having access. This access permitted re-mixing classic outtakes by the Ramones, Talking Heads, John Cale, Plasmatics, Mick Ronson, etc for the purpose of learning. Artists engineered or assisted include David Johansen (New York Dolls), DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Peter Kriss (KISS), Felix Pappalardi (Mountain).
New York University: B.S. in Music & Technology (1980).
Pratt Institute: Graduate study in Electrical Engineering (1983).
