Career
His career in music began at the beginning of the 1970s as bass player with various visiting blues artists, notably: Albert Collins, Champion Jack Dupree, Bobby Parker, Lightnin" Slim, Homesick James - and continued through the decade with seminal public-rockers Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Robin Scott, the embryonic Rockpile (as featured on the album Get lieutenant), and with guitarist Danny Adler"s Roogalator. By the closing years of the 1970s he"d become involved in record production and (briefly) artist-management, co-managing and producing The Sinceros. As the 70s moved into the 80s he took over the running of Nick Lowe"s "AMPRO" studio, and was recording full-time - subsequently producing and/or engineering records for Lew Lewis, Carlene Carter, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Johnny Marr, The Anti-Nowhere League, The Ruts, Robert Wyatt, Edwyn Collins, Squeeze, Paul Carrack, Kirsty McColl and more.
In 1985 he was invited to join the staff of Demon Records to add some technical understanding and help enable production of the brand-new compact-disc format, to assume responsibility for all mastering issues and to become archivist of the burgeoning tape archive (a legacy of the prodigious output of Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and all former Riviera Global artists).
Since the building of Specific Sound, Proper Records" in-house recording facility, he has recorded the following albums:
"All Is Know", Tony Kofi Quartet
"Yeah", Alan Barnes.