Ed Stasium

Ed Stasium is an American record producer and audio engineer, who has worked on albums by the Ramones, Talking Heads, Biohazard, the Smithereens and Living Colour. and graduated from Dunellen High School.

History Stasium began his recording career in 1970 fronting the band Brandywine. He appeared on their sole LP, Aged. When he returned to the music industry three years later, it was as a recording engineer. By the end of 1975 he was hired as a staff engineer at Le Studio Morin Heights in Quebec, Canada. There he would assist with the recording of several albums by the French-Canadian band Garolou. In 1976 he was involved as a sound engineer in the production of the album Morin Heights by the Scottish band Pilot, which was recorded in Canada in the studios of the same name.

Stasium's long affiliation with the American punk and new wave, and the latter-day alternative rock, began in 1977, the year he engineered both the Ramones' Leave Home and Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77. His production career began a year later with the Ramones' Road to Ruin, followed in 1979 by work on the group's It's Alive and the soundtrack to the film Rock 'n' Roll High School.

Stasium enjoyed perhaps his greatest success during the latter half of the 1980s. In addition to engineering Mick Jagger's Primitive Cool, he scored a major hit with Living Colour's Vivid, The album was released on August 5, 2014.

Previously living in Bayfield, Colorado, Stasium currently resides in Poway, California.

Selected discography As engineer Dynomite - Bazuka (1975) (engineer) Morin Heights - Pilot (1976) (engineer) Talking Heads: 77 - Talking Heads (1977) (engineer) Leave Home - Ramones (1977) (engineer) Rocket to Russia - Ramones (1977) (engineer) Au nord de notre vie - CANO (1977) (engineer) Lights Out - Peter Wolf (1984) (engineer, guitar, percussion) Evergreen Nights - Lisa Lougheed (1987) (engineer)

As producer Road to Ruin - Ramones (1978) (producer) It's Alive - Ramones (1979) (engineer/producer) Face Facts - T. Roth and Another Pretty Face (1980) (producer) Love's Melodies - The Searchers (1981) (co-producer) Code Breaker - Morse Code (1983) (producer, engineer) Stukas Over Disneyland - The Dickies (1983) Too Tough to Die - Ramones (1984) (producer) Translator - Translator (1984) (producer Evening of the Harvest - Translator (1986) (producer) Two Fisted Tales - The Long Ryders (1987) (producer) Vivid - Living Colour (1988) (producer) Hang Time - Soul Asylum (1988) (co-producer) 11 - The Smithereens (1989) (producer) Monster - Fetchin' Bones (1989) (producer) Time's Up - Living Colour (1990) (producer) Hell to Pay - The Jeff Healey Band (1990) (producer) 1916 - Motörhead (1991) (co-producer) Mondo Bizarro - Ramones (1992) (producer) The Downward Road - The Pursuit Of Happiness (1993) (producer) Shaved and Dangerous - Baby Animals (1993) (co-producer with Nuno Bettencourt) State of the World Address - Biohazard (1994) (producing, mixing) The Edges of Twilight - The Tea Party (1995) (producer, recorded by, mixing) A Search for Reason - Kilgore (1998) (producer, mixing) Space Heater - Reverend Horton Heat (1998) (producer) New World Disorder (album) - Biohazard (1999) (producer) Overbluecity - Skypark (2000) (producer) Lucky 7 - Reverend Horton Heat (2002) (producer) Far From Nowhere - Slick Shoes (2003) (producer) Knock Yourself Out - Handsome Devil (2004) (producer) Revival - Reverend Horton Heat (2004) (producer) The Devil's Rain - Misfits (2011) (producer) Famous Monsters - Misfits (producer, mixer, guitar)

Mixing More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads (1978) (mixing on "Found a Job") Kinky - The Hoodoo Gurus (1992) (mixing) The Replacements - Tim: Let It Bleed Edition (remixing)