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Producer
Ed Stasium first surfaced in 1970 fronting the band Brandywine, appearing on their sole LP, Aged. When he returned to the music industry three years later, it was as a recording engineer, working on a wide variety of projects ranging from
the Chambers Brothers' Unbonded to
Barry Miles' Magic Theater to
Sha Na Na's Sha Na Na Now.
Stasium's long affiliation with American punk and new wave -- and the latter-day alternative rock they jointly inspired -- began in 1977, the year he engineered both
the Ramones'
Leave Home and
Talking Heads'
Talking Heads 77. His production career began a year later with
the Ramones'
Road to Ruin, followed in 1979 by work on the group's
It's Alive and the soundtrack to the film Rock 'n Roll High School.
Stasium enjoyed perhaps his greatest success during the latter half of the 1980s -- in addition to engineering
Mick Jagger's
Primitive Cool, he scored a major hit with
Living Colour's
Vivid, and also produced acclaimed outings from
Soul Asylum (
Hang Time),
the Long Ryders (
Two Fisted Tales), and
Julian Cope (
Saint Julian). In 1990, he helmed
the Smithereens' hit
11, reuniting with the group a year later for
Blow Up;
Marshall Crenshaw's
Life's Too Short and
Motörhead's
1916 appeared around the same time. Productions from acts including
the Hoodoo Gurus (
Crank) and
the Reverend Horton Heat (
Space Heater) followed as the decade progressed. ~ Jason Ankeny