Chuck Plotkin is a recording engineer and
producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
, best known for his work with
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
and
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
.
Plotkin has recorded, engineered,
masterA master recording is an original recording, from which copies may be made.When recording on to magnetic or digital tape, the original tape is known as the master tape.When recording on to a computer hard disk, it is known as session files....
ed and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and many other artists, starting with The Floating House Band in 1972.
Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer, according to Springsteen official biographer
Dave MarshDave Marsh is an American music critic who briefly attended Wayne State University, became a formative editor of Creem magazine, wrote for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and also edited Rock and Roll Confidential, a newsletter about rock music and...
, was the mastering of Bruce Springsteen's
NebraskaNebraska is the sixth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982.Sparsely-recorded on a cassette-tape Portastudio, Nebraska was originally intended as a demonstration for later expansion into a "proper" album with a full band. However, Springsteen ultimately decided to release the demos as...
album.
Chuck Plotkin is a recording engineer and
producerIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
, best known for his work with
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
and
Bob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...
.
Recording engineer
Plotkin has recorded, engineered,
masterA master recording is an original recording, from which copies may be made.When recording on to magnetic or digital tape, the original tape is known as the master tape.When recording on to a computer hard disk, it is known as session files....
ed and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and many other artists, starting with The Floating House Band in 1972.
Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer, according to Springsteen official biographer
Dave MarshDave Marsh is an American music critic who briefly attended Wayne State University, became a formative editor of Creem magazine, wrote for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and also edited Rock and Roll Confidential, a newsletter about rock music and...
, was the mastering of Bruce Springsteen's
NebraskaNebraska is the sixth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982.Sparsely-recorded on a cassette-tape Portastudio, Nebraska was originally intended as a demonstration for later expansion into a "proper" album with a full band. However, Springsteen ultimately decided to release the demos as...
album. Springsteen recorded the album as a set of demonstration tapes on an inexpensive home cassette recorder. According to Marsh, the task of turning the raw, unprocessed cassette tape (which had spent weeks in Springsteen's pants pocket) into a professional-sounding
vinyl LPA gramophone record, commonly known as phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc...
was a daunting one, and a major technical accomplishment.
He has been credited as a producer on several Springsteen albums.
Film and record producer
Plotkin was credited as producer for the 1995 movie
MirageMirage is a thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a script by Peter Stone , starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, and Kevin McCarthy, and released by Universal Pictures.-Plot synopsis:...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113827/ and produced the soundtrack albums for several films including
Dead Man Walking Dead Man Walking is a 1995 film based on the book of the same name, which tells the story of Sister Helen Prejean , who establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a prisoner on death row ....
,
Vietnam, Long Time ComingVietnam, Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films. The film follows a 16-day, 1100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam that was organized by World T.E.A.M. Sports. The event drew an array of veterans from the U.S. and Vietnam,...
,
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia is a 1993 film. The film's subjects include HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. The film stars Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas, Mary Steenburgen, Anna Deavere Smith, Lisa...
, and
Jerry MaguireJerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe.-Plot:Jerry Maguire is a 35 year old sports agent working for Sports Management International...
.
Other appearances
Plotkin was also featured in the 1995 documentary
Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandBlood Brothers is a 1996 documentary film portraying the temporary reunion of Bruce Springsteen with The E Street Band in 1995.The E Street Band had been dismissed by Springsteen in 1989, and had not recorded as a group with him since 1984...
(2000), which documented an
E Street BandThe E Street Band is a musical group that has periodically toured and recorded with rock musician Bruce Springsteen since 1972.The band has also recorded with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Sting,...
recording session five years after it happened.
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