(1947-03-08) March 8, 1947 (age 77) Washington, United States
Genres
Rock
Occupation(s)
Musician, record producer, audio engineer
Instrument(s)
Guitar
Musical artist
Earle Mankey (sometimes misspelled "Earl" in credits) (born March 8, 1947, in Washington, United States) is an American musician, record producer and audio engineer. He was a founding member and guitarist for the band Halfnelson, later called Sparks. He became a record producer, predominantly for Los Angeles area bands like The Pop, 20/20, The Runaways, Concrete Blonde, Jumpin' Jimes, The Long Ryders, The Three O'Clock, The Tearaways, The Conditionz, Adicts, Durango 95, Leslie Pereira and The Lazy Heroes, and Kristian Hoffman. He is the brother of Concrete Blonde guitarist James Mankey.[1]
Mankey's route into studio work began formally with the demo recordings he engineered for Half nelson. Using two stereo reel-to-reel tape recorders (a Sony quarter-inch and a Panasonic quarter-inch) he painstakingly built up the tracks by recording onto the first recorder and then playing the results back into the second recorder along with a simultaneous performance either by himself on guitar or Ron Mael on keyboards until a finished backing track was completed, to which Russell Mael then added vocals. Mankey describes these early experiments as "fussing around with tape recorders" though he admits he took pride in the "cutting edge" nature of the home recordings he made at this time.[2]
On his approach to recording and making music, he says: "About the only thing that can excite me is to try to think of something I haven't thought of before and then try to do it - which is the satisfying part."[2]
^"Sparkography". AllSparks.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ abDoug Lynner. "5/2009 Earle Mankey – Doug Lynner's World of Noise". Neat Net Noise. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
EarleMankey (sometimes misspelled "Earl" in credits) (born March 8, 1947, in Washington, United States) is an American musician, record producer and audio...
Blonde. Mankey was also the bassist with the band Sparks for their first two albums. He is the brother of musician and record producer EarleMankey. In 2003...
and his most creatively fulfilling since Pet Sounds (1966). Engineer EarleMankey described the album as "serious", "autobiographical", and "frighteningly...
the album. The man selected to both engineer and produce the album was EarleMankey, most famous for his work with the Beach Boys, although Fowley did remain...
1994, by Creation Records. It was recorded and mixed at the engineer EarleMankey's Psychedelic Shack in Thousand Oaks, California. It was self-produced...
participate in the glam rock scene. The previous lineup consisting of EarleMankey, James Mankey and Harley Feinstein was replaced with British musicians: Martin...
Y. Album (1982). The track was co-produced by James and his brother EarleMankey, who also programmed the drums. Joined by drummer Michael Murphy, they...
played on every radio station coast-to-coast," singling out producer EarleMankey's work as "slick and inventive." In a contemporary review for The Village...
played virtually all of the instruments on the album. Band engineer EarleMankey described it as "Brian Wilson giving what he had [to make] a serious...
Engineers – Arun Chakraverty, Gus Dudgeon, Mark Howlett, John Kurlander, EarleMankey and John Stewart Mixing – Phil Dunne Remixing – Gus Dudgeon and Phil...
1997 on Epitaph Records. The album was recorded and mixed at engineer EarleMankey's house in Thousand Oaks, California, in May 1997. It was produced by...
people. "'Til you get Brian on there, it's not gonna happen." —Engineer EarleMankey In a July 1975 article for NME, Nick Kent reported that Carl Wilson had...
Kim Fowley – producer of Cherie Currie demo and all studio outtakes EarleMankey – producer of studio outtakes Kent J. Smythe – producer with The Runaways...
Mark Howlett – engineer Dennis Kirk – engineer Tim Kramer – engineer EarleMankey – engineer Howard Steele – engineer Thom Wilson – engineer Val Garay...
self-funded 10-5-60 EP, which was produced by former Sparks guitarist EarleMankey at his home studio in California. Griffin was working for PVC's parent...
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