Ed Stasium

Ed Stasium is an American music producer, sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist.

Life

Stasium began his career in 1970 as a singer and guitarist of the band Brandywine, whose sole album Aged was a commercial failure. The band broke up then on again. He showed afterwards no further ambitions to stand on the stage and instead worked in the background. Initially he worked as a studio sound engineer since 1973, including for shots of Gladys Knight, The Chambers Brothers, and Sha Na Na. Stasium took both the 1977 album Talking Heads '77 Talking Heads and the second album by the Ramones, Leave Home on. The meeting with the Ramones led him to a career as a music producer; at Rocket to Russia, he worked alongside his work as a sound engineer with even as a co-producer. From Road to Ruin, he produced many albums of the band, including It's Alive, the soundtrack to Rock ' n' Roll High School and Too Tough to Die.

In the 1980s Stasium produced, among others, Living Colour, Soul Asylum and Julian Cope and was involved as a sound engineer on recordings of Mick Jagger, the Talking Heads and Carly Simon. In later years, he produced, among others, The Smithereens, Motorhead, Hoodoo Gurus and Reverend Horton Heat. In 2012 posthumously released album ... Ya know? by Joey Ramone, he played a number of instruments including accordion, electric bass, guitar and piano.