Jack
Douglas
Jack Douglas is an American record producer. He was born in New York
City. Starting out as folk musician and performer, he worked on
Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign as a song-writer. Douglas then
moved to England and joined a succession of bands before returning
to New York to attend the Institute of Audio Research as a member of
its first graduating class. His first professional job was at a new
recording studio Record Plant Studios, not as producer or engineer,
but as the janitor. Soon he was working at the recording desk
contributing to projects by Miles Davis, The James Gang, Alice
Cooper, Cheap Trick, Montrose, Rough Cutt, Artful Dodger, Moxy,
Flipp, and Mountain.
A chance encounter with a group member
led Douglas to help engineer The Who's early (aborted) sessions for
Who's Next at The Record Plant. After this landmark recording he was
given a chance to engineer John Lennon's classic Imagine album.
Douglas and Lennon formed a close bond and worked together for the
remainder of Lennon's tragically short life.
As a Record
Plant staff engineer Douglas also forged working relationships with
Patti Smith, Blue Öyster Cult, the New York Dolls, Cheap Trick,
Starz and most notably Aerosmith. Douglas engineered and produced
Aerosmith's albums from 1974's Get Your Wings, 1975's Toys in the
Attic, 1976's Rocks and 1977's Draw the Line. His close relationship
with Aerosmith extended beyond producing and engineering as Douglas
was also a musical contributor to the group when they came up short
of material on their projects. He was often given the nickname of
"the sixth member" of Aerosmith, due to his close relationship with
the band. Douglas was replaced as producer by the band for the 1979
release Night in the Ruts, but Douglas was to again work with the
group on some of their more recent material, including 2004's Honkin'
on Bobo, as well as 1982's Rock in a Hard Place and several of
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry's solo albums. The band continues to
maintain a cordial friendship with Douglas.
1978 saw Douglas
work with the Australian group Skyhooks as executive producer on
their Guilty Until Proven Insane album (which included the track
"Women In Uniform" which was later covered by Iron Maiden).
In 1980 Douglas was working as producer with Lennon and Yoko Ono on
their penultimate Double Fantasy album (for which he won a Grammy
Award for Album of the Year). During the same sessions he worked on
another Lennon/Ono album Milk and Honey that was to be released
later but Lennon's murder cut that project short (an unfinished
version of the album was released in 1984). Douglas was later
involved in litigation with Ono over unpaid royalties from Double
Fantasy.
Since then he has kept working as an engineer and
producer, reuniting with Aerosmith for three more albums and
producing CDs for artists such as Supertramp, Clutch, Local H,
Slash's Snakepit (solo-project of ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash)
and in 2006 the return of the New York Dolls. He is currently
working with the Michael Monroe band on their forthcoming album.
Douglas also teaches a studio etiquette class at Ex'pression
College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California.
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