The music world lost one of the best recording and producer Andy Johns on Sunday. He was 61 and may have died from liver failure.
If you listened to FM radio and classic rock, you'll hear some of Andy's best known recordings from the likes of Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Mott The Hoople, Free and countless other bands up till the tail end of his life, Andy continued to work with L A Guns on their albums and even Godsmack figures into this.
A selected listings of Andy's work (incomplete)
Mott The Hoople-S/T, Mad Shadows, Wildlife, Brain Capers
Jethro Tull-Stand Up
Free-Highway, Heartbreaker
Rolling Stones: Get Your Ya Yas Out, Let It Bleed, Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers etc
Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman
Cinderella-Night Songs, Long Cold Winter
Pepper's Ghost-Shake The Hand....
Led Zeppelin-III, IV, Physical Graffiti, Coda
Other groups of note:
Stephen Stills
Jack Bruce
Ginger Baker's Air Force
Blind Faith
Eric Clapton (Derek And The Dominoes)
Spooky Tooth
Sandy Denny
Loudness
Autograph
Van Halen
West, Bruce & Laing
Los Lonely Boys
and many more.
RIP
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Crabby: I've heard some of Andy's work with Sandy Denny, Mott, Spooky Tooth, others -- he always got a good group sound. He was also the original engineer on the 1st King Crimson album, but according to Bob Fripp he "collapsed" after 2 days....
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