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Glen \u201cSPOT\u201d Lockett, the in-house producer and engineer for lengthy operating punk label SST Records, has died. The information was confirmed by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, who posted a tribute to SPOT on his Facebook web page. Carducci wrote that SPOT handed away earlier Saturday morning at a healthcare facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He had been on oxygen in late 2021 after his fibrosis impaired his lung operate \u201cand was hoping for a lung transplant, but a stroke about three months ago put him in the hospital.\u201d SPOT was 72.<\/p>\n
Born Glen Lockett in Los Angeles in 1951, SPOT discovered to play the guitar at age 12 and listened to a wide range of genres \u2014 no matter was obtainable on AM radio. At one level, he tried out for Captain Beefheart. Later, after serving to construct a recording studio, SPOT discovered find out how to produce and engineer.<\/p>\n
SPOT met Greg Ginn, the long run co-founder of SST Records and Black Flag, whereas ready tables at a vegan restaurant, and the 2 started jamming collectively. At one level, SPOT was the bassist for Ginn\u2019s band Panic, which finally grew to become Black Flag.<\/p>\n
SPOT finally sat behind the board for Black Flag\u2019s 1980 EP Jealous Again<\/em>. His resume would finally come to incorporate Black Flag\u2019s Damaged<\/em> (1981) and My War<\/em> (1984), Minutemen\u2019s The Punch Line<\/em> EP (1981), What Makes A Man Start Fires?<\/em> (1983), and the Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat<\/em> EP (1983). SPOT additionally labored on Descendents\u2019 1982 studio debut, Milo Goes To College<\/em>, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc\u2019s Everything Falls Apart<\/em> and Metal Circus<\/em> (each 1983), plus 1984\u2019s Zen Arcade<\/em>, Misfits\u2019 Earth A.D. \/ Wolfs Blood<\/em> (1983), Saint Vitus\u2019 self-titled debut (1984), Meat Puppets\u2019 self-titled debut (1984) and Up On The Sun<\/em> (1985).<\/p>\n In 1986, SPOT left SST and moved to Austin, Texas. In addition to his groundbreaking manufacturing work, SPOT was additionally a photographer and freelance author; he revealed a e-book of his work titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening<\/em> in 2014. In 2018, Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Beach did a present of his work.<\/p>\n \u201cSPOT was a musician and writer and photographer who spelled his name in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O,\u201d Carducci wrote in tribute. \u201cHis principal sideline was as a record producer-engineer and an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era. He started in Hermosa Beach playing and recording jazz and he took the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or industrialize a back-to-basics arts movement in sound. When approaching the mixing board SPOT would assume an Elvis-like stance and then gesturing toward all the knobs he would say in a Louis Armstrong-like voice, \u2018This is going to be gelatinous!’\u201d<\/p>\n