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"Mark Needham is like the third producer. Jim and I would sit there and we'd come up with ideas, but Mark would translate everything. And then we would let Mark have free reign on what he wanted to do with stuff, most all the time, in the sense of mixing things together."

Mark Needham: the early years

Mark Needham: in the studio

Mark Needham: Blue Bear School of Music

• Name as it appears on birth certificate:
  Mark Andrew Needham
• Years in the Music Business:
  35 years
• First Client:
  Kicking Mule Records
• First (paying big name) Client:
  Taj Mahal
• First Studio:
  Bear West Recording
• First (big name) Studio:
  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
• Other (big name) producers and engineers worked with:
  Erik Jacobsen, Rob Cavallo, T-Bone Burnett, John Golden, Fred Catero and Lee Hershberg
• Mark's Gear
• Most essential piece of gear Mark owns:
  Sound Performance Lab (SPL) Transient Designer
• Top CD's Mark feels everyone should have in their music library:
  - Definitely Maybe, Oasis
  - London Calling, The Clash
  - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
  - Nevermind, Nirvana
  - Rumors, Fleewood Mac
  - Revolver, The Beatles
  - Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
• Did you know?
  - Mark was a teacher (he taught recording music) at the Blue Bear School of Music (that's Mark in the hat peeking out to the right side of the photo).
  - Mark is on the Advisory Board of the Max Sound Corporation
  - Mark helped create the Toontrack 'Mark Needham EZmix Pack'
• Favorite drink:
  Tea Java ice tea
• If you are going to buy Mark a drink at a bar, he would prefer:
  A Kettle One Martini, dry with olives