You've heard Keith Olsen's work, because it appears on hundreds of albums. He's
sold over 125,000,000 units, won 6 Grammy's (nominated for 24), been an oft-named
recipient of Billboard's Top 5 Producers in the World, and is a lifetime
achievement Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award winner.
He spent the past few decades in darkened rooms with guitars turned up way
too loud, singers spitting on pop screens, drummers spontaneously combusting,
B3's dying daily, broken strings, some broken dreams, infinite days of
set up, rehearsal, writing, recording, over-dubbing, editing, splicing, looping,
changing, mixing; challenged by A&R men, managers, lawyers, and promo men,
but through it all, helped to define a genre very much alive today.
He's worked, molded, structured, written, arranged, engineered and mixed
for: Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Santana, Rick Springfield,
Sammy Hagar, 38 Special, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne, The Baby's, Whitesnake,
The Scorpions, a few films like Flashdance, Footloose, Top
Gun, Tron, and the list grows every year.
Keith is on quite a run making music, putting smiles on people's faces,
wiping away some tears, making "sense" of some pretty unique musical
situations, and most importantly changing the way multiple generations of music
fans look at our world.
