Alan Sanderson is a recording engineer, mixer, music producer, studio owner based in Southern California.
Sanderson is credited with working on some of the most successful albums of the 1990-2000s while working as an engineer at Cello and
Ocean Way Studios
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in Hollywood, California. Some of the artists Sanderson has recorded include:
Fleetwood Mac
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,
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
,
Elton John
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,
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released five albums from 1996 to 2020, which have all reached the top 20 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards a ...
,
B.B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shi ...
,
Counting Crows
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,
Elvis Costello
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,
Ziggy Marley
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,
Ryan Adams
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In 2000, Adams left ...
and
Weezer
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. In 1997 he was an engineer on
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically d ...
album ''
Bridges to Babylon
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''.
On February 13, 2011 Sanderson earned a
Grammy
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for his participation in the recording of the album ''
Hello Hurricane'' by the musical group
Switchfoot
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.
Since 2014, Sanderson has owned and operated Pacific Beat Recording Studio in La Jolla, CA.
Partial discography
Albums
* ''THe Rolling Stones'- Bridges to Babylon''
* ''The Rolling Stones - Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016''
* ''Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway''
* ''Elvis Costello &
Burt Bacharach
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- Painted from Memory''
* ''Elvis Costello & No Doubt - I Throw My Toys Around''
* ''Counting Crows - Hard Candy''
* ''
Donovan
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world musi ...
- Sutras''
* ''Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will''
* ''Fleetwood Mac - Time''
* ''Rita Coolidge - And So In Love''
* ''Tonex - Out Of The Box''
* ''Jewel - 0304''
* ''Fiona Apple - Tidal''
* ''Michael Jackson - History''
* ''Elton John - Songs From The West Coast''
* ''BB King - Let The Good Times Roll''
* ''Ziggy Marley - Spirit of Music
* ''The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon''
* ''Ryan Adams - Demolition''
* ''Rusted Root - Welcome to The Party''
* ''Madonna - Ray Of Light''
* ''Burt Bacharach & Don Was - 2000 Academy Awards''
* ''The Doors - Perception''
* ''
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known professionally as Elliott Smith, was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of ...
- XO''
* ''
Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling ...
- When We Were The New Boys''
* ''Rod Stewart - The Great American Song Book''
* ''Tristeza - A Colores''
* ''
Tribal Seeds
Tribal Seeds is an American reggae band based in San Diego that was formed in 2005 by the Jacobo brothers, singer Steven Rene and producer Tony-Ray.
Biography Formation (2003–2005)
From San Diego, California, award-winning reggae group Trib ...
- Tribal Seeds (Self Titled)''
* ''Tribal Seeds - The Harvest''
* ''
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, backing vocals), Scott Shriner (bass guitar, keyboards, backin ...
- Weezer''
* ''
Paul Westerberg
Paul Harold Westerberg (born December 31, 1959) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Replacements. Following the breakup of the Replacements, Westerberg launched a solo career that saw him re ...
- Suicaine Gratification''
* ''Christopher Sluka - Ready To Connect, Figure It Out''
References
External links
Alan Sanderson Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2016)
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1970 births
Living people