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Background information | |
Birth name | Glenn Michael Lockett |
Born | July 1, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Died | March 4, 2023 Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 71)
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Record producer |
Years active | 1977–2022 |
Labels | SST |
Formerly of | Panic |
Website | spotinator.com ( archived copy) |
Glenn Michael Lockett (July 1, 1951 – March 4, 2023), better known as Spot, was an American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. [1] He styled his name SPʘT, using all capital letters and adding a dot inside the O. [2]
Glenn Michael Lockett was born in the Los Angeles area to a white mother (maiden name Katz) and an African-American father on July 1, 1951. [3] With his older sister Cynthia, he was raised in upper-middle-class Hollywood. [3] Lockett's father Claybourne, known as Buddy to his soldier friends, had been a fighter pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron in WW II, [4] an all-Black formation that was part of the Tuskegee Airmen. [5] Lockett moved from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach in the mid-1970s, where he met Greg Ginn while working at a vegetarian restaurant called Garden of Eden. [5] Lockett also freelanced for Easy Reader, authoring record reviews under the name Spot. [5] [6]
Befriending Ginn, Spot was briefly bassist for Panic, the band which would soon become Black Flag. [5]
Spot recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1986. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag, [1] Minutemen, [1] Meat Puppets, [1] Hüsker Dü, [1] Saint Vitus, [1] Misfits, and Descendents. [1] After leaving SST in 1986, Spot moved to Austin, Texas. [1]
Spot was an accomplished photographer [1] and published a book of his work titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening. [7] In 2018, a gallery showing of his photographs was mounted at Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Beach. [6]
Spot died on March 4, 2023, at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he was recovering from a stroke he had suffered three months earlier. He had been suffering from fibrosis since late 2021 and was awaiting a lung transplant prior to his stroke. [2] [10]
Spot | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Glenn Michael Lockett |
Born | July 1, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Died | March 4, 2023 Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 71)
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Record producer |
Years active | 1977–2022 |
Labels | SST |
Formerly of | Panic |
Website | spotinator.com ( archived copy) |
Glenn Michael Lockett (July 1, 1951 – March 4, 2023), better known as Spot, was an American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. [1] He styled his name SPʘT, using all capital letters and adding a dot inside the O. [2]
Glenn Michael Lockett was born in the Los Angeles area to a white mother (maiden name Katz) and an African-American father on July 1, 1951. [3] With his older sister Cynthia, he was raised in upper-middle-class Hollywood. [3] Lockett's father Claybourne, known as Buddy to his soldier friends, had been a fighter pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron in WW II, [4] an all-Black formation that was part of the Tuskegee Airmen. [5] Lockett moved from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach in the mid-1970s, where he met Greg Ginn while working at a vegetarian restaurant called Garden of Eden. [5] Lockett also freelanced for Easy Reader, authoring record reviews under the name Spot. [5] [6]
Befriending Ginn, Spot was briefly bassist for Panic, the band which would soon become Black Flag. [5]
Spot recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1986. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag, [1] Minutemen, [1] Meat Puppets, [1] Hüsker Dü, [1] Saint Vitus, [1] Misfits, and Descendents. [1] After leaving SST in 1986, Spot moved to Austin, Texas. [1]
Spot was an accomplished photographer [1] and published a book of his work titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening. [7] In 2018, a gallery showing of his photographs was mounted at Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Beach. [6]
Spot died on March 4, 2023, at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he was recovering from a stroke he had suffered three months earlier. He had been suffering from fibrosis since late 2021 and was awaiting a lung transplant prior to his stroke. [2] [10]