Bob Ezrin

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Bob Ezrin (born 1949 in Toronto, Ontario) is a musician and record producer.

Professional background

Canadian born Bob Ezrin is an influential music and entertainment producer with a successful career that spans 38 years.

He has been called "the Producer's Producer," and the arc of his career reads like the progression of popular entertainment. He has worked on legendary recordings with some of the world's leading artists including: Alice Cooper, KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Roberta Flack, Peter Gabriel, Dr. John, Nils Lofgren, Kansas, Rod Stewart, Berlin, Hanoi Rocks, Nine Inch Nails, The Jayhawks, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Darkness, Jane's Addiction and many others. One of his most noteworthy productions is Pink Floyd's The Wall. He recently produced The Deftones as well as a live and TV extravaganza to reopen the SuperDome in New Orleans starring Green Day and U2. Today he is in the middle of producing an album and live opera with L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio from Rome, Italy.

Ezrin is also highly respected for his many years of work in live performance, film, television and radio production in the US, UK and Canada. He created new theatrical, television and live events with @Radical.Media in New York including Jay-Z's feature film, "Fade to Black".

In 1993, he co-founded a computer software company called 7th Level which developed and published educational and entertainment CD-ROMs including a highly popular and groundbreaking series of Monty Python games. In 1999, he co-founded Enigma Digital, a pioneer internet radio provider. It was eventually sold to Clear Channel, where he became vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive. Ezrin was also Chairman of Live Nation Artists Recordings in 2007 and the first half of 2008.

Ezrin was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during in April 2004 and into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in March, 2006. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Los Angeles Mentoring Partnership, Vice President of the The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a founder of MusiCounts, CARAS' music education initiative and, along with U2's the Edge and Henry Juszkiewicz the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, a co-founder of Music Rising (www.musicrising.org), an initiative to replace the musical instruments that were destroyed or lost in the gulf coast region due to the hurricanes and flooding of 2005. He is also a past Trustee and Governor of NARAS.

In 1982, Ezrin briefly appeared as the host of Enterprise, a City-TV panel show replacing Dr. Morton Shulman's The Schulman File. He has been a keynote speaker at numerous music, entertainment and business conferences as well as a guest lecturer at various universities and colleges around North America. He has also been a frequent interviewee for documentary films and television.

Ezrin is now a partner in Big Picture Entertainment in Nashville, TN and continues his work in the studio as well as on film, television and in theatrical productions. In 2008 he helped to establish Beat Kangz electronics, a music technology start up focused on rap music equipment.^[1]

Ezrin is married and has six grown children and two dogs.

List of albums produced by Ezrin

• 30 Seconds to Mars
  • 30 Seconds to Mars (2002)

• Aerosmith
  • Get Your Wings (1974) (Executive Producer)

• Alice Cooper
  • Love It to Death (1971)
  • Killer (1971)
  • School's Out (1972)
  • Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
  • Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
  • Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)
  • Lace and Whiskey (1977)
  • The Alice Cooper Show (1977)
  • DaDa (1983)
  • Brutal Planet (2000) (Executive Producer)
  • Dragontown (2001) (Executive Producer)

• Army of Anyone
  • Army of Anyone - (2006)

• The Babys
  • The Babys - (1977) (co-produced with Brian Christian)

• Berlin
  • "Count Three and Pray" - (1986)

• Robin Black
  • Instant Classic - (2005)

• Bonham
  • The Disregard of Timekeeping - (1989)

• Catherine Wheel
  • Adam and Eve - (1997)

• Tim Curry
  • Read My Lips - (1978)

• Deftones
  • Saturday Night Wrist - (2006)

• Dr. John
  • Hollywood Be Thy Name - (1975)

• Escape From Earth
  • Three Seconds East - (2004)

• Flo and Eddie
  • Flo and Eddie - 1973

• Peter Gabriel
  • Peter Gabriel (I) - (1977)

• David Gilmour
  • About Face - (1984)

• Hanoi Rocks
  • Two Steps From The Move - (1984)

• Héroes del Silencio
  • Avalancha - (1995)

• Steve Hunter
  • Swept Away - (1978)

• Hurricane
  • Over the Edge - (1988) (co-produced by Mike Clink)

• Jane's Addiction
  • Strays - (2003)

• The Jayhawks
  • Smile - (2000)

• Kansas
  • In the Spirit of Things - (1988)

• The Kings
  • The Kings Are Here - 1980
  • Amazon Beach - 1981

• KISS
  • Destroyer - (1976)
  • Music from "The Elder" - (1981)
  • Revenge - (1992)

• Kula Shaker
  • Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts - (1999)

• Julian Lennon
  • Help Yourself - (1991)

• Murray McLaughlin
  • "Storm Warning" - 1981

• Nils Lofgren
  • Nils - (1979)

• Nine Inch Nails
  • The Fragile - (1999) (Album Sequencing)

• Geoffrey Oryema
  • Beat the Border - (1993) (co-produced by Richard Blair and David Bottrill)

• Our Generation
  • Our Generation - (1971)

• Peter Gabriel
  • "Peter Gabriel" - (1977)
  • "That'll Do" - (1998) (from the film "Babe - A Pig In The City") (title track)

• Pink Floyd
  • The Wall - (1979) (co-produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters)
  • A Momentary Lapse of Reason - (1987) (co-produced by David Gilmour)
  • The Division Bell - (1994) (co-produced by David Gilmour)

• Soundtrack
  • "Babe: Pig In The City - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture" - 1998

• Soundtrack
  • "Heavy Metal 2000" - 1999

• Trevor Rabin
  • Can't Look Away - (1989)

• Lou Reed
  • Berlin - (1973)

• Rod Stewart
  • Rod Stewart - (1986)

• Téléphone
  • Dure Limite - (1982)

• The Throbs
  • The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds - (1991) (co-produced by Richard Wagner and Brian Christian)

• Ursa Major
  • [Ursa Major] - (1972)

• U2 and Green Day
  • The Saints Are Coming (live) - (2006)

• Villebillies
  • Greatest Moment -single - (2006)

• Richard Wagner
  • Richard Wagner - (1978)

References

1. ^ Beat Kangz website

External links

• Bob Ezrin at the Internet Movie Database
• "Thank God For Trent Reznor" on Torontoist, April 19, 2007

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