Is there any music producers past or present that have produced albums you love? I think mine are Nick Raskulinecz who has produced AIC, Stone Sour, The Foo Fighters and Rick Rubin who has done Slipknot, RATM, Audioslave, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica, Run DMC, Jay Z and a whole bunch other artists and genres.

Jimmy Page - Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd

I like the way Ted Templeman produced early Van Halen albums.

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T-Bone Burnett comes to mind.

I guess Phil 'gun crazy' Spector for his 'wall of sound' productions and some of his work with George Harrison, The Ramones, Ike & Tina Turner, John Lennon, Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Crystals and The Wrecking Crew.

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Tommy Dowd.

There was this guy in England called George Martin who made some pretty good records.

I guess there's not many people on here then that are fans of the unsung hero's on albums

i don't the name or if he is even the guy who "produced" the album.
michael jackson "thriller"
i still listen to it quite a bit

that would be quincy jones, he also did bad with him

Steve Albini has a pretty good producing resume - Nirvana, The Breeders, Helmet, Robert Plant, Fred Schneider, The Stooges, Mogwai, The Jesus Lizard, Owls, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Manic Street Preachers, Jarvis Cocker, The Fleshtones, Bush, Jawbreaker, Superchunk, Low, Cheap Trick, etc etc.

I had the chance to meet him and sit in for a recording session 1995 in Chicago. It was all live without any overdubs, at least what I saw that day. He's a standup guy and sticks to his guns. He's not a Hollywood type producer. I wonder if his fees are still based on whatever money you have on you at the time IF you can rock. My favorite Albini quote, "I charge whatever the hell I feel like at the moment, based on the client's ability to pay, how nice the band members are, the size and directly proportional gullibility of the record company, and whether or not they got the rock".

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Obligatory gear list: Fender, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Gretsch, Vox, Martin, and more Fender.