Don Gehman's interests evolved from a photography dark room in the basement to chemistry to physics to electronics.
26 Facts About Don Gehman
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Clair invited the teenaged Don Gehman to join his new business, Clair Brothers Sound.
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In 1969, Don Gehman became a sound engineer with Clair Brothers Sound, a position he kept for seven years.
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Soon, Don Gehman began traveling with bands and their equipment, doing as many as 300 one-night shows a year.
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At Criteria, Don Gehman was the recording engineer for the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Firefall, Robin Trower, Barbra Streisand, and Jesse Colin Young.
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Don Gehman was the engineer of Pure Prairie League's Can't Hold Back which was released in 1979.
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In 1979 and 1980, Don Gehman began working with John Mellencamp who was then known as John Cougar, engineering the self-titled album John Cougar.
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Mellencamp came to Criteria to work with Tom Dowd; Dowd was not available and Don Gehman did much of the work on the project.
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Don Gehman continued to produce albums for Mellencamp, including 1983's Uh-Huh and 1985's Scarecrow.
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Don Gehman produced 1987's The Lonesome Jubilee which earned another Grammy nomination for Don Gehman.
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Don Gehman allowed Mills to experiment with a variety of keyboards to add textures to the music, challenged Peter Buck to consider why he made certain choices with his guitar playing, and gave Bill Berry the drum sound he had always wanted.
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Don Gehman was saying, 'I really want to make a record that's a huge commercial success, and as much as I like you all as people, and I like the band, the way you work, I can't hear that you're going to have a huge hit.
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Don Gehman did teach the band, especially Mills, how to arrange songs.
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Don Gehman produced Eric Carmen's self titled 1984 album, Eric Carmen, along with Billy Satellite's 1984 eponymous album.
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Don Gehman produced four albums with Jimmy Barnes, including 1990's Two Fires, 1991's Soul Deep, 1993's Heat, and 1994's Flesh and Wood.
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Don Gehman thought that I might be interested in the band.
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Darius Rucker, lead singer of the band says one of Don Gehman's tasks was to get the band to shorten some of their songs so that they could be played on the radio.
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The album had a budget of only $75,000, requiring Don Gehman to serve as an engineer.
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Don Gehman brought some instruments that he knew would provide a good sound.
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Don Gehman spent a total of 28 days on the record, including twenty days of recording and eight days of mixing.
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Don Gehman was the producer, engineer, and mixer for their Musical Chairs which was released in 1998, and the mixer and producer for their Looking for Lucky which was released in 2005.
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Don Gehman worked with Pat Benatar for her 1993 album Gravity's Rainbow and for her greatest hits album All Fired Up: The Very Best of Pat Benatar in 1994.
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Don Gehman then produced 1996's Friction Baby for Better Than Ezra and 1997's Blue Roses from the Moons for Nanci Griffith, as well as her Other Voices, Too in 1998.
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Don Gehman produced Blues Traveler's Truth Be Told in 2003.
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There's one song on there, "Unable to Get Free," that was actually inspired by an old Barbra Streisand tune, "Woman in Love," that, it turned out, Don Gehman had recorded and engineered.
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Don Gehman has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards but had yet to win one.