Glen “Spot” Lockett, the punk rock music producer who influenced untold musicians together with his audio engineering work on early SST Data releases by Black Flag, Husker Du and Minutemen, has died at 72, in response to studies from Consequence and Pitchfork.
Spot was hospitalized after a stroke final yr and had been on oxygen after his fibrosis broken his lung operate in 2021, former SST Data co-owner Joe Carducci revealed.
Spot’s resume is a formidable checklist of punk cornerstones, not all on SST. From 1980 to 1985, he labored on Black Flag’s Broken, My Conflict and Slip It In, Descendents’ Milo Goes to Faculty, Minutemen’s What Makes a Man Begin Fires?, Misfits’ Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood, Husker Du’s Every thing Falls Aside and lots of extra.
Spot was additionally an achieved photographer — he printed a photograph ebook about skateboarding in California, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening, in 2014.
“I hate to kind out the phrases however… SPOT handed away after 10am at present/Saturday (Mar. 4, 2023) at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,” Carducci writes on Fb.
He continues, “He had cancelled a deliberate images exhibit in late 2021 when he discovered his fibrosis started to impair lung function. Since then he’d been on oxygen and hoped for a lung transplant, however a stroke about three months in the past put him within the hospital. I hoped he was recovering speech however realistically he was not going at his age and situation to develop into a candidate for a lung transplant.”
Carducci Remembers Spot
Carducci explains, “SPOT did not dwell lots on his private historical past however I consider he was born in Los Angeles, grew up within the Crenshaw neighborhood, moved to Hermosa Seaside within the mid-70s, moved to his favourite Black Flag tour cease, Austin Texas, within the mid-80s after which to Sheboygan to be close to his favourite Celtic music scenes in Milwaukee and Chicago. His father was Claybourne Lockett who was a Tuskegee Airman who flew British Spitfires and Spot advised me as soon as his mom was Native American and from New Orleans. His older sister has superior dementia. SPOT was a musician and author and photographer who spelled his title in all caps with a dot in the midst of the O. His principal sideline was as a report producer-engineer and an architect of the pure method to recording a band within the punk period.”
Carducci provides, “He began in Hermosa Seaside enjoying and recording jazz and he took the primacy of stay jazz enjoying into recording bands in opposition to prevailing makes an attempt to melt or industrialize a back-to-basics arts motion in sound. When approaching the blending board SPOT would assume an Elvis-like stance after which gesturing towards all of the knobs he would say in a Louis Armstrong-like voice, ‘That is going to be gelatinous!’ His recorded work as participant and producer is listed at discogs.com. I will be going via his writing with an eye fixed towards publishing a set together with his writings on jazz for the Hermosa Seaside free weekly. He spent latest years writing the novel, Decline and Fall of Different Civilization, and producing a radio-like dramatization of it which is on-line. Final yr he posted new SPOT music.”
Mike Watt Remembers Spot
Bassist and Minutemen co-founder Mike Watt additionally remembered Spot, calling his dying “a horrible blow” and praising the producer who “recorded the minutemen’s first stuff, I am going method again w/this man. brother matt took this shot six years in the past when spotski came around our pedro city.”
Loudwire sends condolences to Spot’s household, mates and associates.
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