RIP Andy Johns

Dead at 63.

Albums produced

Ahead Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig (1969)
As Safe As Yesterday Is - Humble Pie (1969)
Town and Country - Humble Pie (1969)
Highway - Free (1970)
Free Live! - Free (1971)
Heartbreaker - Free (1972)
Bobby Whitlock - Bobby Whitlock (1972)
Why Dontcha - West, Bruce and Laing (1972)
Marquee Moon - Television (1977)
It's a Circus World - Axis (1978)
1234 - Ron Wood (1981)
Hughes/Thrall - Hughes/Thrall (1982)
Stone Fury - Burns Like a Star (1983)
Idéal - Trust (1983)
Sign In Please - Autograph (1984)
Night Songs - Cinderella (1986)
Perfect Timing - McAuley Schenker Group (1987)
Loud and Clear - Autograph (1987)
Long Cold Winter - Cinderella (1988)
Four Winds - Tangier (1989)
Sahara - House of Lords (1990)
Dirty Weapons - Killer Dwarfs (1990)
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - Van Halen (1991)
Under the Influenc - Wildside (1992)
The Extremist - Joe Satriani (1992)
Powers of Ten (second release, two tracks) - Shawn Lane (1993)
Time Machine - Joe Satriani (1993)
Good Guys Don't Always Wear White - Bon Jovi (soundtrack for The Cowboy Way) (1994)
Waking the Dead - L.A. Guns (2002)
22nd Century Lifestyle - pre)Thing (2004)
Rips the Covers Off - L.A. Guns (2004)
Stone in the Sand - Euphoraphonic (2005)
Tales from the Strip - L.A. Guns (2005)
The Undercover Sessions - Ill Niño (2006)
Radio Romeo - Radio Romeo (2007)
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot (2009) [7]
Bingo! - Steve Miller Band (2010)
Up Close - Eric Johnson (2010)
Double Four Time - The Swayback (2012)
The Andy Johns Demo's - Sabyrtooth (2012)
Hollywood Forever - L.A. Guns (2012)

Albums engineered

Disposable - The Deviants (1968)
Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth (1969)
The Clouds Scrapbook - Clouds (1969)
Up Above our Heads - Clouds (1969)
Blind Faith - Blind Faith (1969)
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin (1970)
Highway - Free (1970)
Sky - Sky (1970)
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971)
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones (1971)
Brain Capers - Mott the Hoople (1971)
Sailor's Delight - Sky (1971)
Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones (1972)
Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones (1973)
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin (1973)
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - The Rolling Stones (1974)
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin (1975)
Shadows and Light - Joni Mitchell (1980)
Coda - Led Zeppelin (1982)
Trouble At Home (Silver Condor) - Joe Cerisano (1983)
Raw - Ra (2006)
IV - Godsmack (2006)
Radio Romeo - Radio Romeo (2007)
Crossroads - Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
Ladies and Gentleman The Rolling Stones Movie - The Rolling Stones
Double Four Time - The Swayback (2012)
Switchblade Glory - Switchblade Glory (2011)

Damn. Rest In Peace.

My gosh. Rest In Peace and thanks for helping craft such amazing music.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zuKklBRlzY

RIP

RIP

feeling an urge to hear those latter day LA Guns albums

Hard living man. The story the Television guys give is that they'd meet him in the studio, and he'd already be a wine bottle in. He'd keep drinking until he passed out, and then the band allegedly produced "Marquee Moon" themselves.

Man, to have been on his perch for the Zep sessions.

RIP Amdy. He was entertaining in that Mott programme on BBC4 recently, I imagine with him and Guy Stevens in the studio there would never be a dull moment.

Might have been more respectful if I'd got his name right!

Hard living man. The story the Television guys give is that they'd meet him in the studio, and he'd already be a wine bottle in. He'd keep drinking until he passed out, and then the band allegedly produced "Marquee Moon" themselves.

Man, to have been on his perch for the Zep sessions.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 8, 2013 2:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A full-blown smackhead around the time of working with The Stones as well, although admittedly he was by no means the only one.

RIP -- on the engineering end of things, not sure if anyone has a more impressive classic rock resume there during the early to mid 70s...and even if he was out of it during the marquee moon sessions, i'm sure it'd have been a much different sounding album had he not been there.

I knew he'd worked on some major records, but had no idea his discography was so extensive. Was just listening to Humble Pie's Town & Country yesterday, and man, what a great sound. They never had such sympathetic production after that.

sad news, and wow what a CV....

this is a p good read

http://www.goldminemag.com/article/engineer-andy-johns-discusses-the-making-of-the-rolling-stones-exile-on-main-street

Andy Johns was a brilliant studio engineer, who taught me most of how I record my own and others records. His work on Marquee Moon, brought out the snarling and clockwork gear interplay of Tom and my guitars to a new height of sonic purity that sounds as fresh today as it was in 1977. Andy was a true rock and roll child, and I have wonderful memories of him and many tales to tell, but they will wait for my own memoirs to be again told. I loved him as a rock and roll peer, but I don't think the other guys knew how to share in his joie de vie, and we were all serious and pretty sober for a guy who was used to the likes of the Stones and Led Zeppelin. I called him a couple of years ago just to say hello, and will miss him terribly.
--Richard Lloyd.

the best story about Marquee Moon is that when they first came to the studio and tracked some songs the way Johns had everything set up, he played it back with the a big booming John Bonham drum sound and Verlaine insisted on dialing it way back to the drier sound we all know. would really love to be able to hear what those takes with Zep drums sounded like.

just heard about this. RIP.

http://tapeop.com/interviews/39/andy-johns/