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Producer Brad Wood Never Sleeps

Brad Wood in his studio during Veruca Salt sessions.

Chicago Uberprodcuer, Brad Wood, seems to be popping up everywhere except at

his ever-popular Idful Studios these days. Wood, the producer behind both the

Liz Phair and Veruca Salt debuts, as well as Ben Lee's excellent solo debut, is

currently holed up in an L. A. studio working on That Dog's next record. It's

been that kind of year for the lanky mixmaster. In March, Wood traveled to

Dublin to record the debut by Placebo, a band whose sound he could only

describe as "a little bit of everything. Truly original." While mixing the

record in April, Wood found time to sit in on saxophone with his Chicago pals

Tortoise at the London club LA2. Then, it was back to Chicago for a marathon

session with local band Number One Cup, during which the band laid down all

their drum and bass tracks in two days, just in time for Wood to jet to L. A.

Wood told us that his schedule with That Dog is much more manageable. "They

have a pretty reasonable budget, so I get to act like a normal person and only

work 14 hour days instead of 16. Now I only have to work from 11 A.M. to 1 A.

M. six days a week, instead of 10 'till 2 every day."



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