[croutonwagon]

>but I can report that Jerry Finn didn't produce The Red Hot Chili Pepper

He didnt but Rick Rubin did. And Rick Rubin produced a BUNCH of bands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discogra...

He 100% would fall into that "handful" of producers mentioned. Frankly Rick has been about as instrumental to the RHCP sound as some of the band members themselves, but it was Rick that was producing them from BSSM on and that is when RHCP blew up in the mainstream (George Clinton and a couple others did the earlier albums. )

Except the RHCP 2016 album the getaway, which was a Danger Mouse album. Rick came back with John for the latest 2 as well.

He actually has a pretty interesting podcast these days called broken record that started with him interviewing RHCP members (or at least that is when i picked it up).

Finally, I dont think rick was a producer manager and RHCP, at least, mostly had their own equipment short of mixers and sound boards etc. But they 100% used Ricks studio for a number of albums.

[tptacek]

Bear in mind, and with no disrespect intended to the band, but there might be no modern rock act I like less than RHCP. Having said that: Rick Rubin kind of makes my point for me, right? He's literally the most famous producer in the world. Nobody engaged him for cost-cutting purposes. :)

Here's Rubin and Paul McCartney mixing Cannibal Corpse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3M9iYfdDzo

[croutonwagon]

We are definately on the opposite ends of the spectrum then... but I will say, as a fan of their work, i completely, 100% understand why you may feel that way.

Ill just say i dont appreciate them for their lead singer in the slightest. In fact i like them in spite of that fact.

>He's literally the most famous producer in the world. Nobody engaged him for cost-cutting purposes. :)

100% agree today. But back in 1991 he was still an up and comer of sorts, at least much less established than he is now. He is definately one that made bank and benefitted off the consolidation of radio (and was smart enough to pivot that into more modern forms of production and distribution). And i feel that is point that was being made by Beato. The clear channel consolidation and Telecommunications act paved the way for producers like this to make a killing. If they had an ear for what the masses would like, they had a platform to blow up (and rick did exactly that).

[tptacek]

He had founded and then left Def Jam in the late 1980's --- he was an up-and-comer in rock in the early 1990s, but by 1993 he was already Tom Petty's go-to producer, and by the time of the Telecom Act in 1996 he had produced AC/DC, NIN, Johnny Cash, and Joan Jett. He was a monster by the time of radio consolidation, is all I'm saying. :)