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PETE WEISS & THE ROCK BAND

Pete Weiss is a New England-based producer/engineer/mixer/musician. Through his innovative, organic work with artists such as Willard Grant Conspiracy, Two Dollar Pistols, Charlie Chesterman, Bow Thayer & Levon Helm, and Don Lennon, Weiss has developed a reputation as an outstanding producer who can adapt to many musical genres and is unafraid to ignore stylistic convention. Other notable artists Weiss has worked with include Chris Brokaw, Kustomized, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Doug Yule, Moe Tucker, The Upper Crust, Princeton, Peter Zaremba, Aimee Mann, Lee Ranaldo, Reverend Glasseye, and Mittens.

In 1989 he co-founded Zippah Studio in Boston. After selling his share of Zippah in 2004, he built and opened Verdant Studio, an "open room" retreat-style studio with artist lodging in rural Vermont which he now uses as a home base.

When not in the studio, Weiss fronts the instrumental band The Weisstronauts, is a member of the experimental pop collective known as Sool, and plays guitar and bass with Orange Nichole. He released a solo album in 1996 and fronted the subversive Pete Weiss & the Rock Band from 1995-2000. He has scored four independent films, "Methods" (1998), "Metal" (2001), "Bad Gravity" (with Sool 2006), and "The Arcadian Ideal" (2007). His music/audio-related writing appears regularly in TapeOp Magazine and he has served on many panels & workshops at TapeOp's annual conferences. In the early 1990's Weiss authored two books on baseball, "Baseball's All Time Goats" and "Longshots!", both published by Adams Media. Used copies are often available on Ebay or Amazon.

Artists interested in working with Pete are encouraged to email him directly.

News & press:

Pete was recently interviewed by Mojo Flucke for Popdose, by C.C. DiGuardia in Northeast Performer magazine, and by John Clarkson in the U.K. webzine Pennyblackmusic.

In June, Pete moderated a panel called "Mix Tricks" at Potluck Audio Conference (formerly TapeOpCon) in New Orleans. Panelists included such musical luminaries as Michael Brauer, Mitch Easter, Ross Hogarth, Ryan Hewitt, and John Congleton. Pete also sat on two other panels, "Open Room Recording," which discussed the benefits and challenges of recording without a control room, and "Songs That Made Me Want To Record," for which he expounded on the raw energy and time-and-space-travelling properties of "Car With The Star" by Andre Williams.

The Weisstronauts have released their fourth instrumental album "Instro-tainment!" and undertook a short tour in early June, starting in New Orleans and ending in New York. Details on the band's website.