Spot (born Glen Lockett in 1951[1]) is an American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records.[2]
Glen Lockett was born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father in 1951 and raised in upper-middle-class Hollywood.[1] Lockett's father was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen in WW II.[3] Lockett moved from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach in the mid-1970s, where he met Greg Ginn while working at a vegetarian restaurant called Garden of Eden.[3] Lockett also freelanced for Easy Reader, authoring record reviews under the name Spot.[3]
Befriending Ginn, Spot was briefly bassist for Panic, the band which would soon become Black Flag.[3]
Spot recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1986. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag,[2] Minutemen,[2] Mood of Defiance,[4] Meat Puppets,[2] Hüsker Dü,[2] Saint Vitus,[2] Misfits (Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood) and Descendents.[2] After leaving SST in 1986, Spot moved to Austin, Texas.[2]
Spot is an accomplished photographer[2] and has published a book of his work entitled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening.[5]
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