Glen “SPOT” Lockett, the in-house producer and engineer for lengthy working punk label SST Information, has died. The information was confirmed by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, who posted a tribute to SPOT on his Fb web page. Carducci wrote that SPOT handed away earlier Saturday morning at a healthcare facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He had been on oxygen in late 2021 after his fibrosis impaired his lung perform “and hoped for a lung transplant, however a stroke about three months in the past put him within the hospital.” SPOT was 72.
Born Glen Lockett in Los Angeles in 1951, SPOT realized to play the guitar at age 12 and listened to quite a lot of genres — no matter was accessible on AM radio. At one level, he tried out for Captain Beefheart. Later, after serving to construct a recording studio, SPOT realized the way to produce and engineer.
SPOT met Greg Ginn, the long run co-founder of SST Information and Black Flag, whereas ready tables at a vegan restaurant, and the 2 started jamming collectively. At one level, SPOT was the bassist for Ginn’s band Panic, which ultimately turned Black Flag.
SPOT ultimately sat behind the board for Black Flag’s 1980 EP Jealous Once more. His resume would ultimately come to incorporate Black Flag’s Broken (1981) and My Battle (1984), Minutemen’s The Punch Line EP (1981), What Makes A Man Begin Fires? (1983), and the Buzz Or Howl Beneath The Affect Of Warmth EP (1983). SPOT additionally labored on Descendents’ 1982 studio debut, Milo Goes To Faculty, Hüsker Dü’s The whole lot Falls Aside and Metallic Circus (each 1983), plus 1984’s Zen Arcade, Misfits’ Earth A.D. / Wolfs Blood (1983), Saint Vitus’ self-titled debut (1984), Meat Puppets’ self-titled debut (1984) and Up On The Solar (1985).
In 1986, SPOT left SST and moved to Austin, Texas. Along with his groundbreaking manufacturing work, SPOT was additionally a photographer and freelance author; he revealed a e book of his work titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening in 2014. In 2018, Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Seaside did a present of his work.
“SPOT was a musician and author and photographer who spelled his title in all caps with a dot in the midst of the O,” Carducci wrote in tribute. “His principal sideline was as a report producer-engineer and an architect of the pure method to recording a band within the punk period. He began in Hermosa Seaside enjoying and recording jazz and he took the primacy of stay jazz enjoying into recording bands towards prevailing makes an attempt to melt or industrialize a back-to-basics arts motion in sound. When approaching the blending board SPOT would assume an Elvis-like stance after which gesturing towards all of the knobs he would say in a Louis Armstrong-like voice, ‘That is going to be gelatinous!’”
