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Glenn Scott Davis (Dr. G) Biography (partial taken from the old wiki page)
Brief history:
Glenn Davis
is best known for his contributions to the music scene in the Northeast, United States. Son of multi-millionaire Roy Davis and a native of
Weston,
Massachusetts, he pioneered among other things, the shadowing technique of
recording.
Glenn became a drummer at age 5 and was allowed
to keep drums at school to play for talent shows and during lunch for
other student's enjoyment all the way through High School Graduation.
Freelanced as a live show mixer for various music acts in and around Boston, Massachusetts and New England including "The
Old Vienna".
Played Drums, keyboards and sang with
numerous Boston area bands.
Played Drums
on several cruise ships in The U.S.
and Europe including on the Rhine River "Holland
America Lines", SS
Emerald Seas (Florida to Nassau), SS Oceanic, SS
Flavia, SS
Ariadne, SS
Bahama Star, QE2, Scotia Prince, SS
Southward, SS
Sunward, SS
Skyward.
Played in Hotel Bands in Bermuda, England, Mexico, Spain, Africa, Germany, Switzerland, France, Bahamas, Florida, NYC, California, Hawaii, Las Vegas and
various Eastern U.S. Cities.
Built "The Cave" Recording Studio next
door to Zsaki Abdulnabi's (DBX) house in 1979.
Notable even at a young age, Glenn Davis
performing with Bob Hope with The Boston Pops conducted by Arthur
Fiedler.
Glenn recorded with various local bands; Shimsu,
Paper
Plate Project, etc. Expanded "The
Cave" and re-named "Sounds
On Reel" to become a commercial recording studio with paying clients.
Worked, produced, recorded or just made an appearance at most of the major
recording studios in New England and NYC including: Unique Recording
Studios, The Power Station, Mission Control (Orig.
J. Geils"Sanctuary"),
Fish
Brook, Downtown Recorders,
Blue Jay Recording
Studio, Fort
Apache Recording Studio, Normandy
Sound, Syncro
Sound ("The
Cars"), etc., as well as many private studios.
Produced numerous records for musical
acts; Deep Six, Damaged Goods, Christine
Swardente, Dawna
Hammers-Graham, Les Sampou, Bobby James, Stick
Figures, Harvey
Keene (Keene and Moore), Scott
Damgard, Rhetta
Adams, etc.
Past affiliations (either himself and/or through his father's company) with
DBX, Waltham, MA, Lexicon, Waltham, MA, Kurzweil, Waltham, MA, VJ1, Natick, MA, WVBF,
Framingham, MA, Cramer
Electronics, Needham, MA, Bose, Framingham, MA, Raytheon, Textron and Heathkit.
Beyond Music: Glenn holds an extensive collection of Hollywood collectibles and Motorsports Garage. He was
out of school more than not (world travel and music work) growing up and has
collected a lifetime of travel materials. Fond of Disney World, he was lucky
enough to play with Lionel Hampton in a free
concert in Tomorrowland. He has also
rubbed elbows with many movie and television stars either through studio work,
charity dinners and the like,
including, but not limited to: Lucille Ball (MGM Grand Hotel, Las
Vegas), Frank Sinatra (Fontainebleau Hotel,
Miami), Bermuda
Strollers (Elbow Beach, Bermuda), Jackie Gleason
(Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami), Victor Borge (Family
Friend), Bob Hope (Boston Pops W/Arthur Fiedler), Johnny Carson (Chateau
Deville, Framingham, MA), John Williams (Hyannis, MA), Robert Shaw (Martha's
Vineyard).
More Facts and Tidbits:
Glenn Davis, an avid amusement park
enthusiast, on his way to Paragon Park, would stop in
at the famed Rik
Tinory Studios in between sessions with Aerosmith and Air Supply to work on lead sheets with Rik Tinory.
Rocky Point Park was
also a favorite and on one of Glenn's Normandy Sound visits, he stopped in to
have producer Phil
Greene put up a playback of some of the first
solo work (too ruff, too tuff) done by Journey's singer Steve Perry.
Slowly, but surely,
most of the big studios started to shut down or were sold due to high rent or lack
of business due to people recording more at home or in smaller studios. One of
Glenn's first 48
track analog (two 2" 24
track recording decks synchronized together)
projects was done at Blue Jay, one of the first studios in Massachusetts to buy
an SSL
Console. Glenn worked in between sessions with big band era Artie Shaw and spent time
"talking shop" with Artie during breaks. Other New England Studios were still
using mostly Sony
MCI Consoles and Trident
Boards and Glenn, being a pioneer of electronic music, made
trips to New York City to take
advantage of Bobby
Nathan's Unique Recording which boasted SSL
Consoles and a virtual warehouse of then state-of-the-art keyboards and drum machines. What was not
in house, could be had at one of the world's largest music shops a stone's throw
away. Glenn even worked during Steve Winwood's Back in the High
Life sessions and used a lot of the gear that was set up there for Steve for
his own projects. In rapid fashion, the larger studios in New England (and
nationwide) tried to keep up by buying large format SSL or Neve Consoles. The explosion of computer
recording hit hard in the late 1990s through 2006 with the closing of many
landmark studios nationwide.
Glenn worked for a period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s in speaker design at EAW (Eastern Acoustic
Works) and at ARP (a keyboard company trying to
compete with Moog synthesizer),
about a half mile down the road from Glenn's father's Newton,
Massachusetts based company which sold to large and small companies
including Norwell, Massachusetts based Avedis Zildjian
Company, makers of cymbals for drummers.
Known
as a fanatic of all things music, Glenn is known for "never stopping" and would
even work during "leisure" time at all hours of the night in a studio he set up
in one of the staterooms of the family yacht at Marina Bay (Quincy, MA) on
Boston Harbor.
Mixing with Ed Goodreau.
"A musician's musician" Doctor G printing drum tracks.
Glenn Scott Davis (Dr. G) Discography (partial, taken from glennscottdavis.com)
GLENN DAVIS (DR. G) ALBUMS, EP'S AND SINGLES
"Radioactive"
Glenn Davis (Album)
"Lost Love" Glenn Davis (Album)
"The Tavern
Live" Glenn Davis (Double Album)
"Dr. G and Bruce Haack Vol. I"
(Album)
"Dr. G and Bruce Haack Vol. II" (Album)
"Dr. G and Bruce
Haack Vol. III" (Album)
"Dr. G and Bruce Haack Vol. IV"
(Album)
"Covers!" Glenn Davis is Dr. G (Album)
"Insanity" Dr. G
(Album - *not yet fully completed*)
"Who Do U Run 2" Rhetta Adams Ft.
Glenn Davis (EP)
"Mama's Apple Pie" Rhetta Adams Ft. Glenn Davis
(EP)
"Plastic Cup" Paper Plate Project Ft. Glenn Davis
(Album)
"Brain Damage" Mind Over Mensa Ft. Glenn Davis
(Album)
"Pop It" Hyman Ft. Glenn Davis (EP)
"Destroyer" Shimsu Ft.
Glenn Davis (Album)
"Nuclear Love" Glenn Davis (Super
Single)
"Uh-huh" Kazal Ft. Glenn Davis (EP)
"Potato Salad &
Shrimp" Dr. G and The Wreakbomb (EP)
"I Love You" Sarah Piper Ft. Dr. G
(Single)
"Roll It" Dr. G Ft. J5 (Single)
"Straight To Hell"
Rebellion Ft. Dr. G (EP)
GLENN DAVIS (DR. G)
CREDITS
"Damaged Goods" Damaged Goods (Album)
Glenn Davis:
Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Casual Heroes" Harvey Keene [Keene & Moore]
(Album)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Every Spirit Has A Star"
Dawna Hammers Graham (Single)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer,
Mix
"Shining" Dawna Hammers Graham Ft. Les Sampou (Single)
Glenn
Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Crystal Blue Persuasion" Dawma Hammers
Graham Ft. Les Sampou (Single)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer,
Mix
"Dark Room" Dawna Hammers Graham Ft. Les Sampou (Single)
Glenn
Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Scott Damgard" Scott Damgard
(Album)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Crystal Ball" Christine
Swardante (Album)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Through An
Open Window" Stick Figures (Double Album)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer,
Mix
"Creatures Of The Night" Bobby James (Album)
Glenn Davis:
Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Love Is Wild" Debbie Gibson (Single)
Glenn
Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Gold Digger" The Miners, the Majors and
the Diminished (Single)
Glenn Davis: Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Life
Sucks And Then You Die" Figs (EP)
Glenn Davis: Drums, Keyboards, Vocals,
Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Dreaming Of You" Sindy Taylor (Album)
Glenn
Davis: Drums, Keyboards, C1, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mix
"The Real
Deal" Eric Sanders Project (Double Album)
Glenn Davis: Drums, Keyboards,
Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mix
"5" Superdooper (Album)
Glenn Davis:
Drums, Producer, Mix
"Polly Wanna" Cracker (Album)
Glenn Davis: Drums,
Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mix
"Wings Of A Dove" Bermuda
Strollers (Single)
Glenn Davis: Remixer
"Calypso" Esso Steel Band
(Single)
Glenn Davis: Remixer
GLENN DAVIS
JINGLES
"NL LUMBER" Glenn Davis: Composer
"Mom's Bakery"
Glenn Davis: Composer
GLENN DAVIS SPECIAL
APPEARANCES
As Guest Drummer:
"Esso Steel Band"
Britannia, Nassau
"Bermuda Strollers" Elbow Beach, Bermuda
"SS
Emerald Seas" Cruise Ship
"SS Ariadne" Cruise Ship
"SS Bahama
Star" Cruise Ship
"Rhine River Lady" Cruise Ship
"QE2" Cruise
Ship
"SS Flavia" Cruise Ship
"SS Oceanic" Cruise
Ship
"Scotia Prince" Cruise Ship
"SS Sunward" Cruise
Ship
"SS Southward" Cruise Ship
"SS Starward" Cruise
Ship
"SS Skyward" Cruise Ship
"Playa Del Mar" Resort. Madrid,
Spain
"Southampton Princess" Resort. Neptune Room, Bermuda
"Castle
Harbor" Resort. Bermuda
"Sonesta Beach Resort" Obso Lounge,
Bermuda
"Charlie Rich at The MGM Grand" Hotel. Las Vegas,
Nevada
"Frank Sinatra at the Boom Boom Room" Fontainebleau, Miami,
Florida
"Lionel Hampton at Tomorrowland" Walt Disney World, Orlando,
Florida
As Guest (child) Singer:
"Bob Hope w/Arthur Fiedler
and The Boston Pops" Boston, Massachusetts
As Guest
Star:
"Victor Borge at Woodland" Newton, Massachusetts
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