Some of the esteemed producer and recording engineer's many other credits include Mick Jagger, Living Colour, Joan Jett, The Misfits, Kool & The Gang, Freddie Mercury, Carly Simon, Ben Vereen, Motorhead and Soul Asylum
Ed Stasium’s goal has remained happily unchanged in the nearly 50 years he has worked as a recording engineer and album producer for such varied artists as Talking Heads, Ramones, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Mick Jagger, Living Colour, Kool & The Gang and gospel-music queen Shirley Caesar.
“When you’re talking about great record producers, Ed ticks all the boxes,” said Blondie drummer Clem Burke, whose other band, Empty Hearts, has made two albums with Stasium.“Ed is creative, technical, objective and professional, and he is always adding a little bit of his special sauce in the final production.”
Speaking from his and Weymouth’s New England home recently, Frantz happily elaborated on Stasium’s attributes. His mission with the Ramones, Talking Heads and Living Colour was the same as with his many other musical clients, past and present. He sought to be as sensitive, empathetic and unobtrusive as possible to let the vision of each artist shine through unimpeded.
“I’ve never told anybody I’ve worked with to turn down. I’ve never asked or even suggested anybody turn down. And I’ve never asked a drummer to play softer’,” said Stasium, who contributed guitar parts to several Ramones’ albums. Stasium’s devotion, attention to detail and eclecticism immediately impressed Living Colour’s virtuoso guitarist, Vernon Reid. Friends for more than three decades now, the two met when they were both working on Mick Jagger’s second solo album, 1987’s “Primitive Cool.”The guitarist chuckled as he recalled the unlikely way in which he and Stasium bonded 35 years ago.
Gladys Knight & The Pips won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus in 1974 for “Midnight Train to Georgia.” The song was mixed by Ed Stasium, who is now a resident of San Diego’s North County.Stasium mixed “Midnight Train to Georgia” in a tiny basement recording studio in New Jersey, using a 16-track Langevin console. Knight and The Pips had recorded their vocals in Detroit at the Motown Records studio.
In 1959, at the age of 10, Stasium began taking piano lessons. His epiphany came at a New Year’s Eve party the same year, when a friend of his parents showed him how to use a basic reel-to-reel tape recorder. By the late 1960s, Stasium was regularly attending concerts at New York’s fabled Fillmore East. His first show there was a triple-bill of Vanilla Fudge, The Yardbirds and Tiny Tim. He returned to the Fillmore soon thereafter with his girlfriend for a triple-bill of the Janis Joplin-led Big Brother & The Holding Company, Albert King and Tim Buckley.
Early recording sessions with Skull Snaps and the then-little-known Kool & The Gang led to Stasium mixing “Midnight Train to Georgia,” followed by more work for Gladys Knight & The Pips. Then came albums by everyone from The Chambers Brothers and Sha Na Na to the funk and disco group The Fatback Band, jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss and “Country Porn” comedian Chinga Chavin.
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