Way to go Nick!

When Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters stepped on stage to accept the Grammy for best hard rock performance for the album One by One, he gushed about the man who produced it—Nick Raskulinecz. Grohl called him the "best rock producer."

That's no small praise considering that Grohl, who was the drummer for Nirvana, has been produced by the likes of Butch Vig and Steve Albini.

It seems that our hometown boy Raskulinecz has really hit the big time as a rock producer. A graduate of Bearden High, Raskulinecz was a bass player for the heavy-rock, funk-thrash outfit Hypertribe in the late '80s and early '90s.

While with the 'tribe, he began working with his own home recording equipment, and went on to record/produce a passel of local acts (including Superdrag; Nick is the producer of record for The Fabulous Eight-Track Sounds of Superdrag, which the band released on Darla Records shortly after their debut Regretfully Yours came out.)

In the mid-early '90s, Hypertribe changed its name to Movement, and moved to Los Angeles. Nick got a job as a gofer at venerable Sound City Studios, keeping mad hours and slowly working his way up the studio food chain.

Movement never made it, and most of the members have since moved back to Knoxville. But Nick's studio career continued to blossom, and he began to accumulate ever-more impressive credits, moving into the engineer's role and then working as a producer's assistant. He's worked with acts like Lenny Kravitz, Tom Petty, Danzig, Rancid, and others, and also worked more with Superdrag.

In the late '90s he met Dave Grohl, and acted as assistant to the Foo Fighters in producing the major label debut of the Birmingham band Verbena, Into the Pink.

Congrats Nick!

—Madame "My slow descent into alcoholism went something like this" Georgie
 

February 27, 2003 * Vol. 13, No. 9
© 2003 Metro Pulse