Ryan Greene is an American

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, sound engineer, former owner of Crush Recording Studios in

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and founder of Area 52 Entertainment in

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. In an over 25-year-long career he has worked with many artists including Jay-Z, Lita Ford, Tonic,

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, Wilson Phillips,

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, Dishwalla and

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. He has worked on over 250 musical projects and has been described as an "A-list producer".

Biography

Ryan Greene started his musical career as a drummer in local

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bands. He became a live engineer at the age of 15. At age 19 he started working at

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Music Publishing Studio as a tape duplicator. Greene was eventually promoted directly to first engineer. He was the youngest engineer at MCA. While employed by MCA he worked together with people like

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, Diane Warren and

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. From 1988 to 1996, Greene worked at EMI music publishing as chief engineer where he did all the pre-production for

's best selling album '' Countdown to Extinction'', released in 1992. It sold over a million copies. This eventually lead Greene to working with Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson's band F5. In 1994, he worked with Brett Gurewitz owner of

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and founding member of the punk rock band Bad Religion on a demo recording for Bad Religion. Brett Gurewitz hooked Ryan Greene up with the punk rock band

and he produced their record '' Punk in Drublic'' the same year. The record sold more than a half million worldwide on its way to being certified gold and became NOFX's best selling record. In 1997, Greene started Motor Studios in

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together with

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owner of Fat Wreck Chords and frontman/singer/bass player of

. Greene produced over 40 punk and rock bands for Fat Wreck Chords such as

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, Good Riddance, Pulley,

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, Propagandhi, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Dickies and was instrumental in coining the successful sound of the 1990s

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. In 2005, Ryan Greene founded the Crush Recording Studios in

. In January 2009 Greene sold Crush Recording and opened his new recording facility Area 52 Entertainment. Greene has also engineered and mixed songs for the video games '' Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'', '' Guitar Hero: Aerosmith'', '' Rock Revolution'', and ''

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''. In 2010, Greene opened a recording complex, Validus Recording, and was named 'Producer Of The Year’ by the Los Angeles Music Awards. In 2011, he released a drum sample replacement library called ''Ryan Greene Alt Drums''.

Selected discography

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- '' Do You Wanna Ride?'' (1995) * Back from Ashes - ''Back from Ashes'' (EP) (2009) *Back From Ashes - ''261'' (2010) * Bigwig - Invitation to Tragedy (2001) * Dishwalla - ''Dishwalla'' (2005) * Dogwood - ''Reverse, Then Forward Again'' (2004) * A.F. Punkrock - ''not alone'' (2006) * Doll Skin - ''In Your Face'' (2015) * Emphatic - '' Another Life'' (2013) * F5 - ''A Drug for All Seasons'' (2005) * Lita Ford - ''Greatest Hits Live!'' (2000) *

- ''

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'' (2010) * Mojiganga - ''No Estamos Solos'' (2002) *

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- ''Nerf Herder'' (1996) *

- ''Punk in Drublic'' (1994) *Off Track - ''Explode'' (2009) * Ridel High - "Self Destructive"

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1998) *

- '' Here I Stand'' (2008)

References

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