Glen Lockett, better known professionally as Spot, a producer and engineer of some of the most crucial punk and post-punk records of the early 1980s, has died at 72, friends have confirmed. Spot wa…
Keith Morris, Black Flag’s original lead singer, paid tribute with a Facebook photo of D. Boon kissing Spot on the cheek, writing, “SPOT’s gone. R.I.P. Mr. Lockett you were a good dude!”
Carducci wrote that “SPOT didn’t dwell a lot on his personal history,” but he recounted details that he knew of his former SST comrade, saying he was born in Los Angeles to a Tuskegee airman father and a Native American mother. Raised in the Crenshaw area, Spot moved to Hermosa Beach in the mid-’70s, and then, as the golden era of SST wound down in the mid-’80s, decamped from L.A. to Austin and then Sheboygan .
He found work at a new studio being built in Hermosa Beach, the Media Arts Studio, and began to learn the ropes as musical scenes quickly changed. In a 2018 interview, he told Easy Reader, “I just walked up the stairs and said, ‘Well I hear you’re building a studio. I’m looking for a studio to do something in.’ It was way in its early stages, in the grunt work of doing construction and building it. But when I saw what was up there, I immediately saw the potential of what could be there.
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