RECENT PROJECTS
Updated 2/16/11

Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band

"The Promise"
So Bruce goes digging through his vault containing the many songs he and the ES Band recorded for his "Darkness" album, circa 1978 and— what do you know—he digs up over 20 great songs that could have been included on any of his best albums! BC was happy to oblige Bruce by doing his best with the mixes. "The Promise" is just one disc of a brilliant package that includes the remastering of the original Darkness album, a Thom Zimny -directed documentary about the making of Darkness along with various old & new live video performances of the original darkness tunes (on DVD), most of which were also mixed by BC.

JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys

Bob, Betty & Brandon have recently been hosting radio shows at their Berkeley St. Studio for KCRW, the local NPR redio station. One of the artists happened to be these guys, Bob's old friend Chrissie Hynde's new band. They had just finished their debut album, "Fidelity!" and asked BC if he'd like to dial up some mixes for them. Between loving the songs they played at the show and being the huge Chrissie Hynde fan he is, he jumped at the chance! You gotta hear this album!

Bob, Don Was & Mick Jagger spent a couple of weeks in December of 2009 mixing various leftover tracks from the Stones' Exile on Main Street sessions from the late 60's. Some were unused basic tracks with new overdubs that Mick recently wrote lyrics to, some were earlier outtakes of songs that were on the album and a couple were simply songs they never used that we mixed as they were recorded. "Soul Survivor" is the same track that's on the album with a slightly different mix arrangement, but it has Keith's original scratch vocal instead of Mick's final LV. Pretty interesting!
The disk is iincluded with the Exile re-release.

Squeeze

Bob recently had the great pleasure of mixing a live album for one of his all-time favorite bands. These guys are still incredible, from The Fillmore in SF.

Ricky Martin

Ricky's producer, Desmond Child stopped in to our Berkeley St. Studio last spring to record an album's worth of drum tracks with the brilliant drummer, Josh Freese. BC mixed this album in October at Mix This! that has debuted on Billboard's pop album chart at #3, and the Latin chart at #1. Need I say more?

Some friends, including Jon Brion and one of Bob's heros, Eddie Kramer came over for dinner one evening. Eddie impressed us all with his remarkable cooking skills in our new outdoor kitchen.