Eric Valentine Last updated April 23, 2025 American record producer
For the African-American drummer of the same name, see
Sound Barrier .
Valentine at Barefoot Recording 2010 Eric Dodd , [ 1] known professionally as Eric Valentine , is an American record producer who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride .
He subsequently produced albums for artists such as Good Charlotte , Lostprophets , Taking Back Sunday , Nickel Creek , Queens of the Stone Age , Third Eye Blind , Smash Mouth , The All-American Rejects , Persephone's Bees, and Slash , among others. [ 2]
Early life Valentine's first experience with music was listening to The Monkees as a child and wanting to play drums. He received a three-piece drum set from a garage sale, leading to him taking drum lessons at the age of 9. Around that same time, Eric started listening to bands such as Led Zeppelin , AC/DC and Kiss , along with jazz fusion bands such as Weather Report from drum teachers. His father's career as an aerospace engineer was enough for him to get a four-track and learn on his own. [ 3]
Discography T-Ride – T-Ride (drummer/backing vocals/producer/mixing; 1992) The Conscious Daughters – Ear to the Street (engineer/instrumentation; 1993) Paris – Guerrilla Funk (engineer; 1994) Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani (engineer on "Luminous Flesh Giants" and "Look My Way", piano/additional engineering on "Cool #9", bass/keyboards/percussion on "Luminous Flesh Giants"; 1995) The Conscious Daughters – Gamers (mixing engineer; 1996) Dwarves – The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking (producer/mixing/voice actor; 1997) Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind (programming on "Semi-Charmed Life " and "Motorcycle Drive By", piano on "Thanks a Lot" and "God of Wine", guitar/keyboards/programming on "I Want You", engineer/co-producer/mixing; 1997) Smash Mouth – Fush Yu Mang (keyboards/percussion/groovy noises/engineer/producer/mixing; 1997) The Braids – Here We Come (arrangements/programming/engineer/producer; 1998) Joe Satriani – Crystal Planet (drums/percussion/producer on "Psycho Monkey", bass/drums/keyboards/percussion/engineer/producer/mixing on "Time"; 1998) Brougham – "I Walked In" (mixing; 1998) Vital Information – Where We Come From (mixing; 1998) Tom Coster – From the Street (mixing; 1999) Smash Mouth – Astro Lounge (additional keyboards/vibraphone/engineer/producer/mixing; 1999) Citizen King – Mobile Estates (engineer/producer/mixing; 1999) Snake River Conspiracy – Sonic Jihad (producer; 2000) Dwarves – Come Clean (engineer/producer/mixing; 2000) Deathray – Deathray (synthesizer/keyboards/producer; 2000) Smash Mouth – Smash Mouth (writer on "She Turns Me On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2001) Scapegoat Wax – Okeeblow (engineer/producer/mixing on "Space to Share" and "Perfect Silence", writer on "Perfect Silence"; 2001) Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (producer except "The Sky Is Fallin'" and "Do It Again"; 2002) Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless (writer on "A New Beginning", string arrangement/engineer/producer/mixing; 2002) Kelly Osbourne – "Papa Don't Preach " (producer; 2002) Lostprophets – Start Something (engineer/producer/mixing; 2004) John Fogerty – Deja Vu All Over Again (mixing/additional parts on "She's Got Baggage"; 2004) Good Charlotte – The Chronicles of Life and Death (writer on "Once Upon a Time: The Battle of Life and Death", string arrangement/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2004) Dwarves – The Dwarves Must Die (engineer/producer/mixing; 2004) Skye Sweetnam – Noise from the Basement (writer on "Number One "; 2004) Nickel Creek – Why Should the Fire Die? (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2005) Aslyn – Lemon Love (producer on "Be the Girl", "493-1023", "Ain't No Love", and "You Got Me"; 2005) Taking Back Sunday – Louder Now (engineer/producer/mixing; 2006) Smash Mouth – Summer Girl (engineer/producer/mixing on "So Insane ", "Story of My Life ", and "Right Side, Wrong Bed", drum producer/mixing for "Everyday Superhero", vocal producer for "Quality Control"; 2006) Mellowdrone – Box (engineer on "Oh My", "Four Leaf Clover", "Fashionably Uninvited", "Fuck It Man", and "Whatever the Deal"; 2006) Persephone's Bees – Notes from the Underworld (drums/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2006) Aqualung – Memory Man (additional production/mixing; 2007) Hot Hot Heat – Happiness Ltd. (producer/mixing on "5 Times Out of 100"; 2007) Maroon 5 – It Won't Be Soon Before Long (engineer/producer/mixing on "Little of Your Time" and "Can't Stop"; 2007) Jesca Hoop – Kismet (additional engineering; 2007) The All-American Rejects – When the World Comes Down (drum corp/orchestration composer on "Real World", programming/engineer/producer/mixing; 2008) Tracy Hamlin – Better Days (instruments/engineer/producer on "Free"; 2009) Jackiem Joyner – Lil' Man Soul (drums on "Take Me There"; 2009) Theo Tams – Give It All Away (writer on "Wait for You"; 2009) Slash – Slash (piano on "Ghost", keyboards on "I Hold On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2010) Steve Lukather – All's Well That Ends Well (writer on "Tumescent (Instrumental)", drums; 2010) Chris Standring – Blue Bolero (drums on "Please Mind the Gap" and "March of the Bowler Hats"; 2011) Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday (engineer/producer/mixing; 2011) Dwarves – The Dwarves Are Born Again (editor/mastering/engineer/mixing; 2011) The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (engineer/producer/mixing on "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) " and "1996 ", vocals on "1996", additional production/engineer on "Techno Fan "; 2011) Slash – Apocalyptic Love (writer on "No More Heroes", producer; 2012) Smash Mouth – Magic (engineer/producer/mixing on "Don't You (Forget About Me) "; 2012) Steve Lukather – Transition (drums on "Last Man Standing", "Do I Stand Alone", and "Rest of the World"; 2013) Blag Dahlia – "Metrosexual Man" (drums/vocals on "Metrosexual Man", mixing on "Metrosexual Man" and "The Simple Life"; 2013) Dwarves – The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll (mastering; 2014) Nickel Creek – A Dotted Line (percussion/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014) 5 Seconds of Summer – 5 Seconds of Summer (mastering/additional production/mixing on "She Looks So Perfect "; 2014) The Madden Brothers – Greetings from California (producer on side A; 2014) Supersuckers – Get the Hell (mastering; 2014) Nightmare and the Cat – Simple (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014) 5 Seconds of Summer – Sounds Good Feels Good (mastering/mixing; 2015) The Wombats – Glitterbug (engineer/producer; 2015) Grace Potter – Midnight (producer/mixing; 2015) Richard Elliot – Summer Madness (drums; 2016) Peter White – Groovin' (drums on "When Will I See You Again"; 2016) Good Charlotte – Youth Authority (mixing on "Makeshift Love"; 2016) Grace VanderWaal – Perfectly Imperfect (mastering; 2016) Gwen Stefani – You Make It Feel Like Christmas (editing/engineer/lap steel guitar/percussion/producer; 2017) Death from Above 1979 – Outrage! Is Now (producer; 2017) Weezer – Pacific Daydream (mixing on "Mexican Fender", "Beach Boys" and tracks 4-10/mastering; 2017) The Story So Far – Proper Dose (mixing; 2018) References ↑ "San Fernando Valley record producer sued by girlfriend alleging lifetime-support promise" . Los Angeles Daily News . February 1, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016 . ↑ Quillen, Shay. "Hit-making Nickel Creek tries to catch its breath" . Oakland Tribune . April 27, 2007; retrieved February 23, 2008. ↑ "Make Your Mark With Eric Valentine" . Vintage King Blog . April 27, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018 . ↑ "Why Grace Potter Was 'Mad at Music'—And How She Forgave Herself" . Fortune . Retrieved August 14, 2020 . ↑ "Sagan Potter Valentine has arrived! At 10:47pm on January 12th, I gave birth in our home to a beautiful, healthy baby boy! My husband Eric @nerdentine and I are overjoyed and soaking up every second of this magical time of love & hibernation as we witness the first days of life and discovery!!" . instagram.com . ↑ Hallenbeck, Brent (January 22, 2018). "Vermont-born rocker Grace Potter gives birth to first child" . Burlington Free Press . External links
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