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Brad Wood
Wood at Seagrass Studio
Wood at Seagrass Studio
Background information
Born (1964-02-15) February 15, 1964 (age 60)
Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation(s)
  • Record producer
  • audio engineer
  • musician
Years active1988–present
Formerly of
Websitebradwoodmusic.com

Brad Wood is an American record producer based in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville and Placebo's self-titled debut.

Career

Wood is from Rockford, Illinois.[1] In 1988, Wood, along with Brian Deck and Daniel Sonis, built Idful Music Corporation recording studio in Chicago's Wicker Park.[2][3] While at Idful he recorded and produced hundreds of records, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Veruca Salt's American Thighs, Ben Lee's Grandpaw Would, Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary and LP2, and albums by Red Red Meat, Seam, That Dog, and others. In addition to producing records, Brad was the drummer/soprano saxophonist for Shrimp Boat and touring drummer for Liz Phair (1993–94).

After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Wood has continued to record, mix, and produce records, primarily from his Seagrass Studio in Valley Village. He has worked on recordings by mewithoutYou, Touché Amoré, Skating Polly, Say Anything, Pete Yorn, and Dar Williams.

Records produced or mixed

Album Artist/Band Year
Speckly Shrimp Boat 1989
Roundhouse Tar 1990
Hand Tar 1990
Mungo Snailboy 1990
Social Graces Every Good Boy 1990
Dancing Under Water Freakwater 1991
Duende Shrimp Boat 1991
Construction Of New Action Trenchmouth 1991
Miss Hell/My Spit Calamity Jane 1991
Martha Jane Cannary Calamity Jane 1991
Circus Dog 1991
Jesus Built a Ship to Sing a Song To Jeff Lescher and Janet Beveridge Bean 1992
The Lilacs Rise Above the Filth The Lilacs 1992
Kernel Seam 1992
Uptighty Uptighty 1992
History Volume One God and Texas 1992
Gladiator/Boilermaker The Jesus Lizard 1992
Hollywood or Bust The Mercury Players 1992
Hello Kitty Hum 1992
Ernst and Son Zoom 1992
Teetering Tar 1992
Godawful Big'n 1992
Jimmywine Majestic Red Red Meat 1993
Cavale Shrimp Boat 1993
Mosquito Tortoise 1993
Clincher Tar 1993
Torture Mama Tick 1993
Criminal Element God and Texas 1993
Inside the Future Trenchmouth 1993
The Problem with Me Seam 1993
Electra 2000 Hum 1993
Exile in Guyville Liz Phair 1993
Spindrift table 1993
Feels Like the Third Time Freakwater 1993
Zoom Zoom 1993
Double Shot God and Texas 1994
Dreamcake Jale 1994
Funny Farm King Kong 1994
American Thighs Veruca Salt 1994
Whip-Smart Liz Phair 1994
Diary Sunny Day Real Estate 1994
Jimmywine Majestic Red Red Meat 1994
Memory Barge Hardvark 1994
The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake 1994
Ursa Major Eleventh Dream Day 1994
Trenchmouth Vs. The Light Of The Sun Trenchmouth 1994
Are You Driving Me Crazy? Seam 1995
Breathe Loud Lucy 1995
Bunny Gets Paid Red Red Meat 1995
Meet the Real You Noise Addict 1995
LP2 Sunny Day Real Estate 1995
Menthol Menthol 1995
Broadcaster Triple Fast Action 1995
Grandpaw Would Ben Lee 1995
Old Paint Freakwater 1995
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters Tortoise 1995
Placebo Placebo 1996
So Wound Jale 1996
Strand The Spinanes 1996
Tin Cans with Strings to You Far 1996
Kim Chee Is Cabbage Number One Cup 1996
Hub Hub Moore 1996
Multiple Attackers Burnout 1996
Wrecked by Lions Number One Cup 1997
All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones Whale 1997
Something to Remember Me By Ben Lee 1997
Promised Works The For Carnation 1997
Retreat from the Sun that dog. 1997
Singles, Live, Unreleased Royal Trux 1997
Come Clean Mysteries of Life 1998
Whitechocolatespaceegg Liz Phair 1998
Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 1998
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (original cast recording) 1999
One Diane Izzo 1999
White Out Verbow 2000
Open Heart Surgery Virginwool 2000
Musicforthemorningafter Pete Yorn 2001
Closer Better Than Ezra 2001
Vertigo Jump, Little Children 2001
Transmatic Transmatic 2001
Only If You Look Up Portable 2002
Doll Revolution The Bangles 2003
The Fire Theft The Fire Theft 2003
Day I Forgot Pete Yorn 2003
Welcome to the Middle Laguardia 2003
Living Outside Sense Field 2003
Catch for Us the Foxes mewithoutYou 2004
Something Grand Shrimp Boat 2004
Awake Is the New Sleep Ben Lee 2005
Adapt or Die: Ten Years of Remixes Everything But The Girl 2005
A Burn or a Shiver Edison Glass 2006
Happiness & Disaster Stabilo 2006
Desert Lights Something for Kate 2006
About-Face The Working Title 2006
Brother, Sister mewithoutYou 2006
Shine Sam Bettens 2007
In Defense of the Genre Say Anything 2007
Attack Dead Child 2008
Promised Land Dar Williams 2008
Starting Gun Signal Hill Transmission 2008
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! mewithoutYou 2009
I'll Wait for Sound Director 2009
The Rebirth of Venus Ben Lee 2009
Hell or High Water As Cities Burn 2009
QU Sherwood 2009
Let's Take a Walk Long Live Logos 2009
Nearness Lovelite 2010
Cho Dependent Margaret Cho 2010
Deas Vail Deas Vail 2011
Oh My Garden Sophie Koh 2012
Ten Stories mewithoutYou 2012
Is Survived By Touché Amoré 2013
No Fairy Tale Lisa Loeb 2013
The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure 2013
Summer 720 Bored Spies 2013
New Moodio Eleventh Dream Day 2013
Hebrews Say Anything 2014
The Blue Musk-Oxen Olde Worlde 2014
Quiet World Gatherers 2015
Love Is The Great Rebellion Ben Lee 2015
The Silver Lake Chorus The Silver Lake Chorus 2015
The Kraken In Each Hand A Cutlass 2015
Ghost Notes Veruca Salt 2015
Stage Four Touché Amoré 2016
Kestrels Kestrels 2016
Fat Lot Of Good Cranky George 2016
Ties SEE 2016
TOMGIRL TOMGIRL 2016
Cinematica Obedient Wives Club 2017
New Trick Skating Polly 2017
Where I Go When I Am Sleeping Casey 2018
Negative Space Satellite Citi 2018
Untamed WYO 2018
The Make It All Show Skating Polly 2018
My Colossal Truth Night Dangers 2021

References

  1. ^ "Music Producer Brad Wood Biography and News Page". October 27, 2009. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "RSR095 – Brad Wood – Producing Liz Phair, Veruca Salt & Smashing Pumpkins". Recordingstudiorockstars.com. June 30, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  3. ^ Crane, Larry (January 2014). "Brad Wood: Liz Phair, Idful, Ben Lee". Retrieved January 12, 2023.

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