Tom Werman

Tom Werman ( born 1945 in Boston ) is an American music producer, who was a leader in the Hair Metal genre.

Life

Wermann grew up in Boston and played in local folk groups Acoustic guitar. He spent his college years in New York City and played in various cover bands. In 1965 his group an audition with Brian Epstein, but for fear of the Vietnam War, the group rejects the offer from. Wermann moved to the Columbia Business School in 1969 and took his degree in marketing. He was bored with his subsequent work at an advertising agency and tried to change the music business. As an A & R assistant, he started to work at Epic Records ( at that time a subsidiary of Columbia Records) and takes the group REO Speedwagon and later Ted Nugent under contract.

Besides his work in A & R from Werman Edit versions of singles (shorter versions of songs for use in the radio). Wermann is co- producer with Nugent, which is produced by his manager Lew feed man. When Cheap Trick he learned as an assistant manager and producer Jack Douglas, the last tricks and took over production of the second Cheap Trick album In Colour. It is then her master producer. Until 1982 he produced Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, Blue Öyster Cult, Molly Hatchet, then he leaves and goes to Epic Elektra Records, initially as A & R, but then as a music producer.

In the 1980s he coined the Hair Metal - scene from the beginning. Among other things, he produced Mötley Crües Girls, Girls, Girls, Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain and, Twisted Sister Stay Hungry and Poisons Open Up and Say ... Ahh!. Other bands with whom he worked were Krokus, LA Guns, Dokken and Stryper.

With the decline of the Hair Metal in the 1990s and its successful phase ends. In 2000 he produced the soundtrack for the film Rockstar and 2008, a single for the Australian band Geisha. Werman the years but had previously withdrawn largely from the music business and now works with his wife Suky as a restaurateur with own Gasthof Stonover Farm in Lenox, Massachusetts.