Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: johncuster.net/
Band Members: DON"T give up mid-way through this video. The end is quite something. Possible titles: "No Man Left Behind" "Never Surrender-Never Give Up" People could learn a lot from this epic battle.
This is a song I wrote with a band called CRY OF LOVE. I also produced this song for their first CD on Columbia Records.
BANDS THAT JOHN CUSTER HAS PRODUCED:
Corrosion of Conformity
Cry of Love
Dag
Chris Whitley
Michael Pitt (Murder By Numbers, The Dreamers)
Rich Hall (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central)
Sass Jordan
James Hetfield (Metallica)
Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers)
Roger Hawkins (The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)
The Harry Connick Jr. Horns
Gran Torino
Teresa Williams
The Backsliders
San Kofa
Park Life
Saunter
Nathan Davis
Mark Wells
SKWZBXX
Hipbone
Hugh Swaso
Influences: "John is the most talented guy I know. He has huge attention for detail and an unbelievable ear for music. I don't think there's any kind of music he doesn't understand. He's very good at figuring out what a band does well and bringing it to its highest fulfillment."
-- Josh Sarubin, Vice President of A&R, Arista Records
"John Custer is a musical genius, a man whose brain can store more music, more accurately, than whole reels of magnetic tape. Since returning home to the triangle in the late '80s, he's also become the most successful record producer in the region, producing major releases by Raleigh's Corrosion of Conformity and Cry of Love and wrangling a deal for his own virtually unknown songwriting and production project, Dag."
-- Ross Grady, The Independent from "John Custer: Machine Dreams"
"Just about everybody who works with Custer uses the same word to describe him: genius."
-- David Menconi, News & Observer, Author "Between The Tracks"
"Nothing really amazing. Some black artists, some country artists, some disco. Nothing amazing except for the fact that it's all Custer. His music, all original, runs the gamut from roots-style R&B to very uptown, high polish jazz. From eastern-sounding instrumentals, complete with sitars and gong, to borderline offensive funk and rock. And everything, absolutely everything, in between. There are classical tunes there are rap tunes, there are complete orchestral movements. 'If he's heard it, he's played it.' A friend remarks. 'He's like a musical sponge. It's amazing.' And it is amazing."
-- F. Levie, Live! Magazine from John Custer: Musical Sponge
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Type of Label: Major