1. Bruce Botnick was born on 1945 and is an American audio engineer and record producer.
11 Facts About Bruce Botnick
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Bruce Botnick engineered for the Beach Boys and their eleventh studio album Pet Sounds, as well as producing and engineering for acts such as Love, Buffalo Springfield, Dave Mason, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, as well as film composer Jerry Goldsmith.
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Bruce Botnick engineered Love's first two albums, and co-produced their third album, Forever Changes, with the band's singer-songwriter, Arthur Lee.
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Bruce Botnick is listed as the one of two recording engineers on the 1965 Curtis Amy LP The Sounds of Broadway - The Sounds of Hollywood - said to have been released in 1965, although it has been said to have been released earlier.
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Bruce Botnick audio engineered the Doors' studio recordings starting with their first album in 1966.
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Bruce Botnick has a credit as assistant engineer on the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed album.
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Bruce Botnick later produced Eddie Money's first two albums, Eddie Money in 1977 and Life for the Taking in 1978.
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Bruce Botnick produced two albums for Paul Collins' rock group The Beat, including 1979's The Beat and 1982's The Kids Are The Same.
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Bruce Botnick had a long-running association with film composer Jerry Goldsmith as his scoring mixer.
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Bruce Botnick first met Goldsmith on 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture and they worked together on most of Goldsmith's film projects - numbering over 100 - from the 1980s through to Goldsmith's death in 2004.
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Bruce Botnick engineered at least two of Lonnie Mack's late-1960s Elektra albums, and is credited as Re-Recording Mixer for the movie Gremlins.