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Bubba--Kron

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Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« on: March 17, 2011, 06:26:57 PM »

I'm wondering if there are any artists who have successfuly produced their own recordings.  The only one I can think of is Trent Reznor.   

Is this impossible, even with all the apropriate tools at ones disposal?

Is it like Tom Hanks trying to make Forest Gump all by himself?

Is this kind of thing a bad direction to go in?

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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 07:38:42 PM »

I'm wondering if there are any artists who have successfuly produced their own recordings.  The only one I can think of is Trent Reznor.

Chris Walla/Death Cab?
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 09:48:09 PM »

Define "successful".

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Jeff Goodman

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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2011, 09:57:21 PM »

Prince comes to mind
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2011, 12:20:48 AM »

Daniel Lanois?
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2011, 12:57:31 AM »

Prince
Todd Rundgren

just a start
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2011, 05:51:21 AM »

Didn't Imogen Heap produce (and I think engineer) her albums?
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2011, 07:20:32 AM »

Nile Rodgers....
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2011, 08:42:34 AM »

There was this guy named Paul McCartney...  and there was this other guy named Stevie Wonder... they were sort of successful...
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2011, 11:25:42 AM »

Jack White, Sufjan Stevens, Frank Zappa, Lisa Germano, Leon Russell, Koop...gosh, I mean, there are a ton, aren't there? But then I'm defining successful simply by my level of enjoyment of the work, combined with the fact that there's some implied level of success in having work that exists and is distributed or otherwise available in some fashion.
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2011, 02:01:06 PM »

Curtis Mayfield
Stevie Wonder
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Michael Brauer

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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2011, 02:52:28 PM »

except for Chris Walla who is truly amazing, can anyone come up with artists from the last couple years?
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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2011, 10:09:48 PM »

i'd say sufjan is pretty amazing.

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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2011, 04:54:40 AM »

Has any of these guys ever mixed their own record?


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Michael Brauer

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Re: Has there ever been a truly successful Producer/Artist?
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2011, 08:34:28 AM »

ray charles, if we're gonna go way back, also produced his own records. And he used to mix it also.

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