[Pictured above: Tony Platt]
Tony Platt is visiting the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries ATRiuM on Tuesday, 4th December.
Tony Platt: Tony is a leading member of the British Music Producer's Guild
Engineer for Bob Marley & The Wailers “Catch A Fire”, Boomtown Rats “Fine Art of Surfacing”, AC/DC “Back In Black”
Producer for Iron Maiden “Phanton of The Opera, AC/DC “Flick of the Switch”, Buddy Guy “Damn Right I got The Blues”, Soweto Kinch "Conversations with The Unseen", and many, many more, including film and TV (http://www.platinumtones.com/discography.htm)
Tony Platt is visiting ATRiuM on Tuesday, 4th December!!!
Tony will be providing useful careers orientated presentations. These are particularly for Music and Sound students, who should attend as follows:
1.00 – 2.00 pm CB4 2nd Year Music and Sound
2.00 – 3.00 pm CB4 1st Year Music and Sound
3.00 – 4.00 pm CB4 3rd Year Music and Sound
Other students and staff are welcome to attend as they are able.
Submitted to AIM ATRiuM Intelligent Media Blog by:
James E Barrett
Principal Lecturer
Department: CCI - Drama & Music
[Pictured above: Tony Platt]
Tony Platt’s career in the music business started at Trident Studios in London but he made his name as an engineer at the now legendary Island Studios.
Working his way from assistant engineer to engineer on sessions with the likes of Free, Traffic, The Who, Rolling Stones, Sutherland Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Jess Roden and Mott the Hoople to he came to engineer albums for a hitherto unknown Jamaican artist, Bob Marley, which would launch reggae music into the mainstream for good.
This association led him to complete ”Funky Kingston” for Toots and the Maytals and work with several other notable Jamaican artists such as ZapPow, Lorna Bennet, Harry J’s All Stars, Aswad and The Cimarons.
However, although Tony Platt’s reputation is principally based on his work in the world of rock, at Island he gained other more eclectic experience working on the numerous orchestral, commercial and pop sessions that came through the studio and some fairly eccentric projects including a 30 piece avant garde jazz band and an album consisting entirely of Tibetan bells !
After working with the various spin off projects from the recently disbanded Free - Sharks, Toby, Peace and Kossoff, Kirke,Tetsu and Rabbit and as engineer for Muff Winwood on the debut Sparks album Kimono in my House he finally left Island and turned freelance.
Having recorded demos that prefaced deals for Thin Lizzy and the Stranglers he became engineer for Mutt Lange.
With Mutt, Tony worked on the AC/DC albums Highway to Hell and Back in Black, Foreigner - 4, Boomtown Rats - Fine Art of Surfacing and Broken Home and AC/DC asked him to mix the soundtrack on their documentary film and then to work with them on Flick of the Switch.
When he joined the Zomba producer roster in 1980 Tony enjoyed immediate success producing and engineering the work of artists such as Samson (with Bruce Dickenson singing) & Iron Maiden, Krokus, Motorhead, Gary Moore, Cheap Trick, The Cult, Marillion , the list goes on.
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