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Jim Roberts

Jim Roberts - Producer/Engineer - Baskin Robbins called..they said they're down to five flavors

About Me

Jim Roberts has worked with John Entwistle (The Who), Kansas, Steve Walsh (Kansas), Leslie West (Mountain), Brian Johnson & Cliff Williams (AC/DC), Joe Franco (Van Helsing's Curse, Good Rats), Joel Kosche (Collective Soul), Robin Zander, Joe Lynn Turner, Steve Luongo and Mark Hitt (TorQue, Rat Race Choir), Jon Hammond, Shawn Pelton, Joe Berger, Glen Velez and many others. He is an ASCAP songwriter and publisher, BMI publisher and, via his work with Joe DeSanctis at JDM Music, has aired on Good Morning America, Men In Trees, NUMB3RS, ABC World News Now, Good Day New York, Guiding Light and various shows on ABC, CBS, FOX, ESPN, PBS, and NBC. Jim is on the advisory board of The John Entwistle Foundation. He is also a voting member of the Recording Academy (NARAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

My Interests

http://www.thejohndoes.comMember - NARAS, ASCAP, BMI, AES, SMPTEThe John Entwistle Foundation - Advisory Board Member, EMT with the Somers Volunteer Fire Department, EMT with Disaster Medical Assistance Team NY-2

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Music:

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Modern Rock / Popular Rock / Classic RockModern: Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, AFI, The Fray, Hawthorne Heights, Wolfmother, The Killers, Clutch, All American Rejects, Muse, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, etc. Popular: Foo Fighters, Audioslave (RIP), Death Cab for Cutie, Collective Soul, Green Day, RHCP, Radiohead, Weezer, etc. Classic: ELP, Yes, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, King Crimson, UK, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, The Who, Public Enemy (yes, PE), Soundgarden (RIP), Alice in Chains (RIP), STP, etc.

Movies:

This is Spinal Tap, Goodfellas, The Godfather I & II, Anchorman, Tommy Boy, Spies Like Us, The Three Amigos, Rat Race, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Christmas Vacation

Television:

24, The Simpsons, 4400, Entourage, Sopranos, Family Guy, Heroes, Medium, SNL, The Office, Curb, Seinfeld, Honeymooners

Books:

The Adventures of Mixerman, Confessions of a Record Producer, Behind the Glass

Heroes:

Entertainment- Jack Bauer, Tom Dowd, Phil Ramone, Arif Mardin, George Martin, Don Rickles, Rupert Neve, Ahmet Ertegun(R.I.P.), Clive DavisReal Life - School Teachers, Police Officers, Our Armed Forces troops at home and abroad, Fire and Rescue personnel, Nurses and Doctors, etc....

My Blog

New Collective Soul music

These guys are friends, so I may be biased but they've cranked out a great sounding record. It sounds like the logical progression and evolution of the CS we first heard in the mid 90s. A couple of ...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:59:00 PST

NOW AVAILABLE - New Steve Walsh Music !

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Posted by Jim Roberts on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:30:00 PST

What's wrong with people??

I send out a lot of friend requests based on people's interest in music and entertainment. I feel that I put a lot of my personal information out on my myspace page so that whoever sees my request kn...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:54:00 PST

Finally!!

Well, my production partner Scott Cresswell and I finished up two mixes for a project I'm producing. These tracks have been 'in production' since Fall 2006 and have been slow in the making due to sch...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:25:00 PST

Brad Delp RIP

Another great loss to rock and roll. Brad had a very distinctive voice and was WAY too young at 55yo. I can't thank him enough for the countless amount of times I enjoyed his singing - especially on...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:16:00 PST

How it started

I'm often asked things like "how did you get started in audio" or "what attracted you to production" - those types of questions. My answer, given the appropriate time, is always the same so I figured...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

Why?

Why, whenever I really like a real band, do they break up? And why did it just happen twice with the same guy? I just read that Chris Cornell has left Audioslave. I was upset when Soundgarden broke...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:51:00 PST

Anna & OJ

In the early 90s, my wife and I both worked in Manhattan (NYC). One day during a snow storm she called me from work and was in desparate need of an audience for a Donahue taping. It was snowing so b...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:40:00 PST

NAMM 2007

I normally attend the NAMM show (lately in Anaheim), but this year decided not to go. I convinced myself that since I attended the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in San Fran last October, I really w...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:16:00 PST

PS3

Well, we held out past the 'holiday' feeding frenzy and are now the proud owners of a new PS3 system purchased at face value with no premium.Now I hope it was worth the trouble!The challenge now shift...
Posted by Jim Roberts on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:35:00 PST