Kevin Shirley

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Kevin Shirley
Also known asThe Caveman
Born29 June 1960 (1960-06-29) (age 63)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Genres Hard rock, heavy metal, [1] rock & roll
Years active1970s–present

Kevin Shirley, also known as The Caveman, is a South African music producer, engineer and audio mixer for many artists, [2] including Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Silverchair, Journey, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Dream Theater, Jimmy Barnes, Cold Chisel, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Springbok Nude Girls, All Night Radio, [3] [4] Steve Louw & Big Sky, [5] [6] [7] HIM, [8] Mr. Big, [9] and Europe. [10]

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Biography

Kevin John Shirley was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He spent his early years producing and engineering records for South African artists including Robin Auld, Juluka, Jonathan Butler, Lesley Rae Dowling, Steve Louw and Sweatband as well as performing and recording with his own band The Council, [11] [12] whose singer was Brian Davidson (from Freedoms Children). [12]

He moved to Australia in 1986 where he continued working with Australian artists, such as The Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels, Cold Chisel, Girl Monstar, Tina Arena, The Screaming Jets, Baby Animals. After producing Silverchair's debut album Frogstomp , he moved to the United States.

In the US and Canada he produced work for Aerosmith, Dream Theater, Black Country Communion, Journey, The Black Crowes, Iron Maiden, Rush and Slayer. He also worked on the retrospective Led Zeppelin DVD . He has produced several albums for American blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. Shirley produced the Mr. Big album What If... . [13]

In March 2023, Jimmy Barnes announced the formation of supergroup The Barnestormers, featuring Barnes, Chris Cheney, Slim Jim Phantom, Jools Holland and Kevin Shirley. A self-titled album was released on 26 May 2023. [14]

Selected discography

YearAlbum detailsRoleSource
1984The Council — Rising
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: Mountain Records
Guitarist, production, engineering [11] [12]
1986 All Night Radio — The Killing Floor
  • Release date: November 1986 (South Africa)
  • Release date: May 1987 (Australia)
  • Label: Previous Records
Production, engineering, mixing [3] [4]
1988Tony Johns — The Way I Live

Rock City Promotions PTY. LTD. Confidential Records.

Production, Engineering, mixing
1990 Winston Mankunku Ngozi — Crossroads
  • Label: Pro-Arte Records
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [16]
The Black Crowes — Shake Your Money Maker Re-mix for Sho'Nuff boxset [17]
Big Sky — Waiting for the Dawn
  • Release date: August 1990
  • Label: Gallo Records
Production, engineering, composer [18] [6]
Lime Spiders — Beethoven's Fist Engineering, production [19]
1991 Peter Wells — Everything You Like Tries to Kill YouProduction, engineering mixing [15] [20]
1992 Baby Animals — Baby Animals
  • Release date: February 1992
  • Label: Imago
Engineering [21]
The Black Crowes — The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
  • Release date: 12 May 1992
  • Label: Def American
Re-mix for Sho'Nuff boxset [22]
1993 Billy Squier — Tell the Truth
  • Release date: 27 April 1993
  • Label: Capitol
Engineering, mixing [23]
Rush — Counterparts Engineering [24]
1994 Olivia Newton-John — Gaia: One Woman's Journey Mixing [25]
Material Issue — Freak City Soundtrack
  • Release date: 8 March 1994
  • Label: Mercury
Engineering, mixing [15] [26]
1995 Silverchair — Frogstomp
  • Release date: 27 March 1995
  • Label: Murmur
Production, engineering, mixing [27]
Ammonia — Mint 400
  • Release date: 16 October 1995
  • Label: Murmur/Epic
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [28]
1996 Hoodoo Gurus — Blue Cave Mixing [29]
Divinyls — Underworld
  • Release date: 11 November 1996
  • Label: BMG
Engineering, mixing [15] [30]
Journey — Trial by Fire
  • Release date: 22 November 1996
  • Label: Columbia
Production, engineering, mixing [31]
1997 Aerosmith — Nine Lives
  • Release date: 18 March 1997
  • Label: Columbia
Production, engineering, mixing [32]
Dream Theater — Falling into Infinity
  • Release date: 23 September 1997
  • Label: EastWest
Production, engineering, mixing [33]
Jackyl — Cut the Crap
  • Release date: 14 October 1997
  • Label: Epic
Mixing [34]
1998 The Angels — Skin & Bone Mixing [35]
Liquid Tension Experiment — Liquid Tension Experiment Mixing [36]
Journey — Greatest Hits Live
  • Release date: 24 March 1998
  • Label: Columbia
Production, mixing [37]
Rocket from the Crypt — RFTC Production, engineering, mixing [38]
Cold Chisel — The Last Wave of Summer
  • Release date: 25 August 1998
  • Label: Mushroom
Mixing [39]
Dream Theater — Once in a LIVEtime
  • Release date: 27 October 1998
  • Label: EastWest
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [40]
1999The Black Crowes — By Your Side
  • Release date: 12 January 1999
  • Label: Columbia
Production, engineering, mixing [41]
Silverchair — Neon Ballroom
  • Release date: 8 March 1999
  • Label: Sony/Murmur
Mixing [42]
Buck-O-Nine — Libido
  • Release date: 16 March 1999
  • Label: TVT
Mixing [43]
Liquid Tension Experiment — Liquid Tension Experiment 2
  • Release date: 15 June 1999
  • Label: Magna Carta
Mixing [44]
Amanda Marshall — Tuesday's Child
  • Release date: 22 June 1999
  • Label: Sony/Epic
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [45]
doubleDrive — 1000 Yard Stare
  • Release date: 17 August 1999
  • Label: MCA
Mixing [46]
Our Lady Peace — Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
  • Release date: 21 September 1999
  • Label: Columbia
Mixing [47]
Big Sky — Best of the Decade
  • Release date: 4 October 1999
  • Label: Epic
Production: compilation

Production, engineering, mixing: "Destiny", "Skin Deep"

 [48]
Billionaire — Ascension
  • Release date: 19 October 1999
  • Label: Slash
Mixing [49]
Dream Theater — Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
  • Release date: 26 October 1999
  • Label: Elektra
Mixing (tracks 2-8, 11) [50]
Little Steven — Born Again Savage
  • Release date: 30 November 1999
  • Label: Pachyderm
Mixing [51]
2000 Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes — Live at the Greek
  • Release date: 29 February 2000
  • Label: TVT
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [52]
The Unband — Retarder
  • Release date: 7 March 2000
  • Label: TVT
Mixing [53]
Joe Satriani — Engines of Creation
  • Release date: 14 March 2000
  • Label: Epic
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [54]
Iron Maiden — Brave New World
  • Release date: 29 May 2000
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [55]
Tidewater Grain — Here on the OutsideProduction, engineering, mixing [15] [56]
2001Journey — Arrival
  • Release date: 3 April 2001
  • Label: Columbia
Production, engineering, mixing [57]
Bodyjar — How It Works
  • Release date: 10 July 2001
  • Label: Capitol
Mixing [58]
HIM — Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
  • Release date: 27 August 2001
  • Label: BMG
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [59]
Dream Theater — Live Scenes from New York
  • Release date: 11 September 2001
  • Label: Elektra
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [60]
SOiL — Scars
  • Release date: 11 September 2001
  • Label: J
Mixing [61]
2002 Silvertide — American Excess (EP)
  • Label: J
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [62]
Dream Theater — Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
  • Release date: 29 January 2002
  • Label: Elektra
Mixing [63]
Iron Maiden — Rock in Rio
  • Release date: 25 March 2002
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [64]
Neurotica — NeuroticaMixing [65]
Steve Louw & Big Sky — Beyond The Blue
  • Release Date: 9 September 2002
  • Label: Sony
Production, engineering, mixing [7] [66]
Lordi — Get Heavy Mixing [67]
2003 Span — Mass Distraction Mixing [68]
Led Zeppelin — How the West Was Won
  • Release date: 27 May 2003
  • Label: Atlantic
Engineering, mixing [69]
Iron Maiden — Dance of Death
  • Release date: 2 September 2003
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [70]
Josh Ritter — Hello Starling
  • Release date: 9 September 2003
  • Label: V2
Mixing [71]
Dream Theater — Train of Thought
  • Release date: 11 November 2003
  • Label: Elektra
Mixing [72]
2004Silvertide — Show and Tell
  • Release date: 8 June 2004
  • Label: J
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [73]
Hurricane Party — Get This (EP)
  • Release date: 10 August 2004
  • Label: Sanctuary
Mixing [74]
New York Dolls — The Return of the New York Dolls: Live from Royal Festival Hall, 2004
  • Release date: 28 September 2004
  • Label: Attack
Remixing [75]
Dream Theater — Live at Budokan
  • Release date: 5 October 2004
  • Label: Atlantic
Mixing [76]
2005Josh Ritter — 4 Songs Live (EP)
  • Release date: 22 February 2005
  • Label: V2
Mixing [77]
Oz Noy — Ha!
  • Release date: 26 April 2005
  • Label: Magna Carta
Mixing [78]
Supagroup — Rules
  • Release date: 31 May 2005
  • Label: Foodchain
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [79]
After the Fall — Always Forever Now Mixing [80]
Iron Maiden — Death on the Road
  • Release date: 30 August 2005
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [81]
2006Soulphood — Liquid Dynamite
  • Release date: 17 January 2006
  • Label: Rock Lord
Mixing [82]
Oliver Black — Live in Texas (EP)
  • Release date: 21 March 2006
  • Label: TVT
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [83]
Joe Bonamassa — You & Me
  • Release date: 6 June 2006
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [84]
Black Stone Cherry — Black Stone Cherry Mixing [85]
Iron Maiden — A Matter of Life and Death
  • Release date: 28 August 2006
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [86]
2007 Kittie — Funeral for Yesterday Mixing [87]
The Mooney Suzuki — Have Mercy
  • Release date: 19 June 2007
  • Label: Elixia
Mixing [88]
Joe Bonamassa — Sloe Gin
  • Release date: 21 August 2007
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [89]
Oz Noy — Fuzzy
  • Release date: 11 September 2007
  • Label: Magna Carta
Mixing [90]
Supagroup — Fire for Hire
  • Release date: 25 September 2007
  • Label: Foodchain
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [91]
Big Sky — Trancas Canyon
  • Release date: April 2008
  • Label: Sony
Production, engineering, mixing [92]
2008 Jordan Zevon — Insides Out
  • Release date: 15 April 2008
  • Label: New West
Engineering, mixing [15] [93]
Journey — Revelation
  • Release date: 3 June 2008
  • Label: Nomota/Frontiers
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [94]
Lauren Harris — Calm Before the Storm
  • Release date: 10 June 2008
  • Label: Demolition
Mixing [95]
Joe Bonamassa — Live from Nowhere in Particular
  • Release date: 19 August 2008
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [96]
Dream Theater — Chaos in Motion 2007–2008
  • Release date: 22 October 2008
  • Label: Roadrunner
Mixing [97]
2009Joe Bonamassa — The Ballad of John Henry
  • Release date: 24 February 2009
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [98]
Iron Maiden — Flight 666 – The Original Soundtrack
  • Release date: 22 May 2009
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [99]
Joe Bonamassa — Live from the Royal Albert Hall
  • Release date: 22 September 2009
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [100]
Hollywood Undead — Desperate Measures Mixing [101]
2010Joe Bonamassa — Black Rock
  • Release date: 23 March 2010
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, photography [15] [102]
Iron Maiden — The Final Frontier
  • Release date: 13 August 2010
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [103]
Black Country Communion — Black Country
  • Release date: 20 September 2010
  • Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, lyricist, composer [15] [104]
Mr. Big — What If...
  • Release date: 15 December 2010
  • Label: Frontiers/Victor
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [105]
2011Joe Bonamassa — Dust Bowl
  • Release date: 22 March 2011
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer, photography [15] [106]
Journey — Eclipse
  • Release date: 23 May 2011
  • Label: Nomota/Frontiers
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [107]
Black Country Communion — 2
  • Release date: 13 June 2011
  • Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer, liner notes [15] [108]
John Hiatt — Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
  • Release date: 2 August 2011
  • Label: New West
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [109]
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa — Don't Explain
  • Release date: 27 September 2011
  • Label: J&R Adventures/Mascot
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [110]
2012Black Country Communion — Live Over Europe
  • Release date: 27 February 2012
  • Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer, liner notes [15] [111]
Iron Maiden — En Vivo!
  • Release date: 23 March 2012
  • Label: EMI
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [112]
Joe Bonamassa — Driving Towards the Daylight
  • Release date: 22 May 2012
  • Label: J&R Adventures/Provogue
Production, engineering, mixing, guitar, tambourine, toy piano, cowbell, percussion [15] [113]
Robert Cray Band — Nothin but Love
  • Release date: 27 August 2012
  • Label: Provogue
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [114]
Joe Bonamassa — Beacon Theatre: Live from New York
  • Release date: 24 September 2012
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer, photography [15] [115]
Steve Harris — British Lion
  • Release date: 24 September 2012
  • Label: EMI
Mixing [116]
John Hiatt — Mystic Pinball
  • Release date: 25 September 2012
  • Label: New West
Production, engineering, mixing [117]
Beth Hart — Bang Bang Boom Boom
  • Release date: 16 October 2012
  • Label: Provogue/Mascot
Production, engineering, mixing [15] [118]
Black Country Communion — Afterglow
  • Release date: 29 October 2012
  • Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer [15] [119]
2013Joe Bonamassa — An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House
  • Release date: 25 March 2013
  • Label: J&R Adventures
Production, engineering, mixing, composer [15] [120]
Iron Maiden — Maiden England '88
  • Release date: 25 March 2013
  • Label: EMI
Mixing [121]
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa — Seesaw
  • Release date: 20 May 2013
  • Label: J&R Adventures/Mascot
Production, engineering, mixing [122]
Black Star Riders — All Hell Breaks Loose Production, engineering, mixing, percussion [15] [123]
2015Iron Maiden — The Book of Souls Production, engineering, mixing [124]
2021 Smith/Kotzen — Smith/Kotzen
  • Release date: 26 March 2021
  • Label: BMG
Mixing [125]
2021 Steve Louw — Headlight Dreams
  • Release date: 7 May 2021
  • Label: BFD / The Orchard
Production, mixing [5]
2021Iron Maiden — Senjutsu Production, engineering, mixing [126]
2022 Steve Louw — Thunder and Rain
  • Release date: 11 November 2022
  • Label: BFD / The Orchard
Production, mixing [127]

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