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He was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Sacramento, California.
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Michael Lardie
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Michael is a self-taught musician having taken only a handful of lessons as a child. He plays guitar, bass, sitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica and flute. At age 17 he started playing in piano bars at night while still attending high school.
Michael spent most of the early to late eighties learning the craft of analog recording.
Although he is well known for producing and engineering records, most would be surprised to know he had a solid career recording other artists long before joining He was worked on records by artists as diverse as Black Flag, Kajagoogoo, Dokken, Saint Vitus to name a few in his early career. Lardie joined in 1986 as a session and touring rhythm guitarist/keyboardist/backing vocalist and would eventually become a permanent band member, as well as the band"s producer and engineer
The group broke up officially in 2000, and their final concert was recorded and released under the name Thank You..Goodnight!. In 2006, reformed and continue to tour as of October 2008.
When disbanded, Michael returned to his first love.
Production. In recent years he has worked on records by Jake East. Lee, Leslie West, Colin Blades (son of Jack Blades, ), Shaw Blades and Jizzy Pearl. Michael joined in 2003 as keyboardist/backing vocalist, replacing original keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald.
He remained with them until 2007, performing in both and concurrently.
When Lardie left to pursue full-time again, hired Christian Matthew Cullen as a replacement.
