Brian Deck

Brian Deck
Deck in the Studio
Background information
Born	Chicago, Illinois
Occupations	Recording Engineer Musician
Instruments	Percussion Drummer
Years active	1988 to Present
Associated acts	Red Red Meat Califone Ugly Casanova
Website	Engine Studios

Brian Deck is an American music producer and member of band Red Red Meat. He co-founded Idful Studios in 1988. Since becoming a full time producer, Deck has worked with bands and artists including Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Califone, Fruit Bats, Gomez, The Grates, Holopaw, Baby & Hide, David Singer and David Berkeley. Brian currently works at Engine Studios in Chicago Illinois.

Musician

Brian Deck attended college as a performance major and excelled at both drum set and general percussion instruments. On many of the albums Brian produces, he contributes some sort of instrument or vocal. Many of his albums include extensive percussion instruments and techniques. While recording the band Red Red Meat at Idful Studios he was asked to join the band behind the kit. He remained there until the bands disbanding in early 2000. Since then he has had a loose connection with Tim Rutili's Califone. He and Tim also collaborated with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock for the band Ugly Casanova. Brian produced, and played drums on, their sole album, Sharpen Your Teeth; he also toured behind the record. According to Richard Edward's of Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, as of 2009 Brian will be the new drummer in his side project Vegetables.

Discography

Red Red Meat

• Red Red Meat (Perishable Records, 1992)
• Jimmywine Majestic (Sub Pop Records, 1994)
• Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop Records, 1995)
• There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight (Sub Pop Records, 1997)
• Loftus (collaboration with Rex) (Perishable Records, 1999)

Ugly Casanova

• Diggin Holes b/w Babys Clean Conscience (Sub Pop Records, 2002)
• Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop Records, 2002)

Producer

Working early on out of Idful Studios with Brad Wood and later out of Engine Studios, Brian has produced a number or both local Chicago musicians as well as widely known international acts.

Production Credits

Year	Album	Artist
2009	A New Tide	Gomez
2008	Animal!	Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
2008	Not Animal	Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
2008	Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings	The Counting Crows
2008	Unicycle Loves You	Unicycle Loves You
2008	Live at Dead Lake	Hot Club de Paris
2007	The Shepherd's Dog	Iron and Wine
2007	Sons of Guns	Probably Vampires
2007	Banging Down the Door	Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
2006	This Harness Can't Ride Anything	Chin up Chin Up
2006	Roots & Crowns	Califone
2006	Gravity Won't Get You High	The Grates
2006	"For The Masses"	The You
2006	The Animal Years	Josh Ritter
2005	That These Things Could Be Ours	Robert Scoro
2005	Our Endless Numbered Days	Iron and Wine
2004	Hark/Sigh	Baby & Hide
2004	"Stars Burn Out"	David Singer & the Sweet Science
2003	Mouthfuls	The Fruitbats
2003	Holopaw	Holopaw
2003	Fear Not The Breakdown	R. D. Roth and The Issues
2002	Sharpen Your Teeth	Ugly Casanova
2002	The Silver Line	Chris Mills
2002	Inhabiting the Ball	Jim Roll
2001	Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks	Modest Mouse
2001	Roomsound	Califone
2000	The Moon and Antarctica	Modest Mouse
1997	There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight	Red Red Meat
1992	Baling Wire & Bubble Gum	Every Good Boy
1990	Social Graces	Every Good Boy
1988	Mederios	Wheat (Band)

External links

• All Deck'd Out from Harp Magazine

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