Dave Goodman

Dave Goodman
Dave Goodman
Born March 29, 1951 (1951-03-29) (age 60)
Died February 10, 2005(2005-02-10) (aged 53)
Malta
Occupations record producer, musician
Associated acts

Sex Pistols

Early punk rock scene

Dave Goodman (29 March 1951 – 10 February 2005) was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions.

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Sex Pistols

Some Sex Pistols fans prefer the raw "live" sound captured by Goodman to the official versions of the songs released as single A-sides and on the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.[1] Goodman also maintained that many of his own production innovations and arrangement ideas in relation to the Sex Pistols songs were lifted and reused in the creation of the official releases.[2]

Recording sessions

The first Goodman/Sex Pistols session was recorded between 13 and 30 July 1976 at the group's Denmark Street rehearsal room (with post-production at Riverside and Decibel Studios), when they were without a record contract. These demos helped secure the deal with EMI and furnished the eventual B-side track, "I Wanna Be Me".

The second session, held 10–12 October 1976 at Lansdowne Studios (reconvening at Wessex Studios), was an abortive attempt to record the "Anarchy in the U.K." single. The group had signed with EMI the previous week, and it later transpired that the sessions had originally been booked by Polydor, whom manager Malcolm McLaren had been playing off against EMI, and who had assumed they would imminently sign the group.[3] Although the recording of the single was abandoned (the single was eventually produced by Chris Thomas), the session did produce several cover versions later used as B-sides and on the soundtrack album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, which Goodman helped engineer and produce.

The final sessions with Goodman, between 17 and 28 January 1977 at Gooseberry Studios (post-production at Eden Studios), took place while the group was in a hiatus and negotiating a settlement from EMI following their sacking. These were the last recordings made by the original group line-up, and they helped them win their subsequent record deals with A&M and Virgin. The sessions also featured the first studio recording of "New York" and the Sex Pistols' valedictory song to their former record company, "EMI".

Reuse

Many of Goodman's Sex Pistols demos were subsequently released on the bootleg album Spunk in 1977, and the demos have formed the basis for countless other subsequent official, semi-official and bootleg records since, including many releases initiated or licensed by Goodman himself. In 2002, he had been planning a new release of raw pre-Spunk demo mixes, entitled X-Spunk.

Later work

In August 1978 he released a single "Justifiable Homicide" under the name Dave Goodman and Friends.

In 2000 he appeared in the cult underground film Remember a Day (2000 film), as The Mime Troupe Leader, he also provided the incidental music soundtrack with Darryl Read who starred in the film as Roger Bannerman.

Goodman produced several other early punk rock acts, including Eater, Chelsea, Maniacs,[disambiguation needed ] UK Subs and in 2002 with Darryl Read. He subsequently produced and performed with very many other artists, and eventually ran his own studio and record label in Malta, Mandala Music.

Goodman was later involved in producing a series of 'sound-a-like Pistols' tracks using the name "Ex Pistols", much to the confusion of Sex Pistols fans, some of which believed the songs to be the real deal. The tracks were recorded using numerous session musicians, even including Glen Matlock.

Dave Goodman died of a heart attack at his home in Malta.


External links

Notes

  1. ^ Heylin, Clinton (2003). Bootleg: The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording Industry. Omnibus Press, London. pp. 127–33. ISBN 1-84449-151-X. 
  2. ^ Goodman, Dave (2007). My Amazing Adventures with the Sex Pistols. Omnibus Press, London. ISBN 1-90443-848-2. 
  3. ^ Mike Thorne, EMI A&R. "The Making of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K."". Archived from the original on 2006-04-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20060427233746/http://www.stereosociety.com/anarchy.html. Retrieved 2006-06-18. 

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