Brian Deck

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

Musician Brian Deck attended college as a performance major and excelled at both drum set and general percussion instruments. On many of the albums Deck produces, he contributes to some sort of instrument or vocal parts. 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. Deck produced and played drums on their sole album, Sharpen Your Teeth; he also toured behind the record. According to Richard Edwards of Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, as of 2009, Deck was the new drummer in his side project Vegetables.

Producer Working early on out of Idful Studios with Brad Wood and later out of Engine Studios, Deck has produced a number of both local Chicago musicians as well as widely known international acts. He is represented exclusively by Andy Kipnes and Mark Beaven of Advanced Alternative Media.

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)

Production credits

Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! Counting Crows

Butter Miracle, Suite One Counting Crows

Breach Fenne Lily

The Horse Comanche Chadwick Stokes

Somewhere Under Wonderland Counting Crows

Intersections Into It. Over It. Ghost on Ghost Iron & Wine The Great Despiser Joe Pug

Clill Blanzin Moritat Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger River City Extension

This Life is Not Ours to Keep New Ruins Collider Sam Roberts Band No One Gets Any Fair Fjola

Li(f)e Sage Francis In Memory of Loss Nathaniel Rateliff

A New Tide Gomez New Leaves Owen Strange Light David Berkeley

Animal! Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Not Animal Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings Counting Crows Unicycle Loves You Unicycle Loves You Live at Dead Lake Hot Club de Paris

The Shepherd's Dog Iron and Wine Sons of Guns Probably Vampires Banging Down the Door Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

This Harness Can't Ride Anything Chin up Chin Up Roots & Crowns Califone Gravity Won't Get You High The Grates For The Masses The You The Animal Years Josh Ritter

The Plural of the Choir Settlefish That These Things Could Be Ours Robert Skoro

Our Endless Numbered Days Iron and Wine Hark/Sigh Baby & Hide Stars Burn Out David Singer & the Sweet Science

Mouthfuls Fruitbats Holopaw Holopaw Fear Not The Breakdown R. D. Roth and The Issues

September 000 The Secret Machines Sharpen Your Teeth Ugly Casanova The Silver Line Chris Mills Inhabiting the Ball Jim Roll

Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks Modest Mouse Roomsound Califone

The Moon and Antarctica Modest Mouse

There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight Red Red Meat

Baling Wire & Bubble Gum Every Good Boy

Social Graces Every Good Boy

Mederios Wheat (Band)