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Tom Lord-Alge
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Tom Lord-Alge is a 3-time Grammy award winning record producer and mixer widely known as a leader in music mixing. His older brother, Chris Lord-Alge, is also a mix engineer.
Lord-Alge helped pioneer a method of digital tape editing known as "flying" vocals (e.g., using a piece of the chorus to accent a different part of the song, etc.).
One of the world's most prolific mix engineers, Lord-Alge continues to turn out a massive quantity of work, mixing such popular artists as Manic Street Preachers, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McLachlan, Marilyn Manson, Angels & Airwaves, Oasis, Sum 41, The Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Blink-182, David Poe, Fountains of Wayne, Avril Lavigne, U2, M2M, The Goo Goo Dolls, +Live+, Hoobastank, and Billy Talent, to name a few.
Tom Lord-Alge gained notoriety while working at Unique Recording Studios, NYC in the 1980s for his mixing for Force M.D.'s, Chaka Kahn, Taka Boom Malcom McLaren, David, Johansen, OMD, TKA, Jeff Beck, Little Steven, Wendy & Lisa, John Waite, Earth, Wind & Fire, Supertramp, The System.
In 1985, Tom Lord-Alge recorded and mixed Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life" album featuring the single "Higher Love" The album “Back in the Highlife” won multiple Grammy’s in 1986 for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and Tom Lord-Alge won the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical.
In 2007, Tom Lord-Alge gained unlikely noteriety among Genesis fans when he turned up on the giant video screen during the band's performance of the song "Throwing It All Away" - a point in the show when the screen mainly showed crowd shots. Lord-Alge became known among Genesis fans as the "Trick Guy" because he was wearing a t-shirt highlighting the band's album A Trick of the Tail - and Lord-Alge's appearance was remembered because he blocked the view of a buxom woman who had previously graced the screen - thus earning him light-hearted boos from the crowd, so noticeable that Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins were photographed turning around to look at the screen and see what was going on.
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