Bruce Kaphan is a musician and recording engineer who has worked on many studio projects, often as a

pedal steel The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

player, from 1970 to 2011. In particular he was a member of

American Music Club American Music Club was an American, San Francisco-based indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. Formed in 1982, the band released seven albums before splitting up in 1995. They reformed in 2003 and released two further albums. ...

. He is also credited with engineering, mixing, and/or mastering over sixty albums, including several albums by The Crooked Jades and the solo cover album ''Loveless: Hurts to Love'' by Kenny Feinstein of the band

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Albums

Albums he has worked on include the following: *

Schoolyard Ghosts ''Schoolyard Ghosts'' is the sixth studio album by British art rock band No-Man. Recorded in the UK, France, Sweden and the USA and released on 12 May 2008, the album features contributions from Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club, Red House Pai ...

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I Am the Resurrection "I Am the Resurrection" is a song by the Stone Roses and the final song on the UK version of their debut album. The last four minutes of the song is an instrumental outro. The single was released on 30 March 1992, and reached number 33 on ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

Silence Silence is the absence of ambient hearing, audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low sound intensity, intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be exten ...

* Pass It Around *

Violence in the Snowy Fields ''Violence in the Snowy Fields'' is the second full-length by Dolorean, released in 2004 on Yep Roc Records. The album is slightly more up-tempo than their debut ''Not Exotic''. Reviews have made comparisons to the Band and '' Wild Honey''-era Be ...

* Mercury *

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San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

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No Alternative ''No Alternative'' is an alternative rock compilation album produced by Paul Heck and Chris Mundy that was released in 1993. It was the third compilation put together by the Red Hot Organization, a charity dedicated to raising money for and awa ...

Three Snakes and One Charm ''Three Snakes and One Charm'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Black Crowes. It was released on July 23, 1996, and is their final release on American Recordings. Background During the "Amorica or Bust" tour of 1995, m ...

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* Pedal steel guitarists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American Music Club members {{Guitarist-stub