Earle Mankey

Earle Mankey sometimes misspelled Earl in credits born March 8 1947 in Washington United States is an American musician record producer and audio engineer He was a founding member and guitarist for the band Halfnelson later called Sparks He became a record producer predominantly for Los Angeles area bands like The Pop 2020 The Runaways Concrete Blonde Jumpin Jimes The Long Ryders The Three OClock The Tearaways The Conditionz Adicts Durango 95 Leslie Pereira and The Lazy Heroes and Kristian Hoffman He is the brother of Concrete Blonde guitarist James Mankey Mankeys route into studio work began formally with the demo recordings he engineered for Half nelson Using two stereo reeltoreel tape recorders a Sony quarterinch and a Panasonic quarterinch he painstakingly built up the tracks by recording onto the first recorder and then playing the results back into the second recorder along with a simultaneous performance either by himself on guitar or Ron Mael on keyboards until a finished backing track was completed to which Russell Mael then added vocals Mankey describes these early experiments as fussing around with tape recorders though he admits he took pride in the cutting edge nature of the home recordings he made at this time On his approach to recording and making music he says About the only thing that can excite me is to try to think of something I havent thought of before and then try to do it which is the satisfying part Earle lives in and maintains his studio in Thousand Oaks California called Earles Psychedelic Shack and is still active in recording and producing Earle is the older brother of Concrete Blonde guitarist James Mankey Source Article Earle Mankey from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30