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Tony Bongiovi

 
Artist: Tony Bongiovi
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Harold Wheeler, Ed Stasium, Lance Quinn, Meco Monardo, Bob Ludwig, Bob Clearmountain, George Young, Aldo Nova
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Producer

Biography

Over the years, producer Tony Bongiovi has worked with some of rock's biggest names – touching upon a variety of genres in the process (heavy metal, punk, new wave, disco, soul, arena rock, etc.), and even inadvertently helped the career of his second cousin, Jon Bon Jovi. Bongiovi got his start in the early ‘70s, when he engineered recordings for Millie Jackson, the Last Poets, and the posthumous Jimi Hendrix odds and ends collection, Crash Landing. Bongiovi also founded one of New York's best known recording studios, the Power Station (now called Avatar Studios), as he turned his attention to producing acts by the later part of the decade. While many established engineers/producers thumbed their noses at the burgeoning punk movement, Bongiovi worked on classic early releases by two of the genre's biggest names – the Ramones (1977's Leave Home and Rocket to Russia) and the Talking Heads (1977's Talking Heads: 77). In 1980, Bongiovi gave a job to his cousin Jon (who would soon change the spelling of last name to Bon Jovi), who was trying to launch a music career himself – in exchange for sweeping the recording studio floors, the singer could record demos. A few years later, one such demo recorded during this time (for the song "Runaway") would land Bon Jovi a recording contract. Bongiovi worked mostly with heavy metal/hard rock acts during the early to mid ‘80s – including Aerosmith (Rock in a Hard Place, Classics Live, and Classics Live 2), Helix (No Rest for the Wicked), Meat Loaf (Dead Ringer), Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon), and the self-titled debuts by Aldo Nova and even Bon Jovi. By the ‘90s, it appeared as though Bongiovi had taken a break from producing, although an archival release of the tracks Bongiovi engineered for Bon Jovi back in the early ‘80s was issued - 1997's Power Station Years: 1980-1983. By the 21st century, Bongiovi had launched his own management company, Bongiovi Entertainment Inc. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
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Tony Bongiovi
Birth name Anthony C. Bongiovi
Born Raritan, New Jersey
Genres Hard rock, Punk rock, Metal, RnB, Urban
Occupations Record producer, Recording Engineer, Electrical & Acoustical Engineer, Innovator
Years active 1965 - Present
Labels Jive
Website www.bongioviacoustics.com

Tony Bongiovi is a record producer and recording engineer with expertise in Electrical & Acoustical Engineering. He helped to remodel an old building in Manhattan—once a power plant for Edison, and later a television studio—into the Power Station recording studio in 1977.

Bongiovi was born in the borough of Raritan, New Jersey located in Central Jersey. He attended Bridgewater-Raritan High School West and is a licensed HAM operator.[1]

He has produced records by Gloria Gaynor, Talking Heads, Aerosmith (Classics Live) and Ramones (Rocket to Russia and Leave Home), Chic and many more. Early in his career, as an engineer, he worked the console for a number of sessions with Jimi Hendrix, as well as some of Hendrix's posthumous releases under producer Alan Douglas.

He is the second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi, and helped Jon in his early career by giving him a job at the Power Station and by allegedly financing and producing early demo recordings and paying for singing lessons. An album, John Bongiovi: The Power Station Years was released in 1999, featuring Tony Bongiovi's early recordings of Jon, before he changed the spelling of his name. The cousins had differing opinions on who should receive what[clarification needed], and after the group Bon Jovi objected, an out of court settlement was reached[clarification needed].

Bongiovi's most recent production is As Above So Below, the debut CD of the hard rock band NoEnd, released in South America by Sony/BMG, and also the band Deep Side on Jive records.

Production and Engineering credits

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Others produced

References

  1. ^ http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=625677
  2. ^ [1] Production Section


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