About Mark Needham

• Name as it appears on birth certificate:
  Mark Andrew Needham
• Years in the Music Business:
  35 years
• First Client:
  Kicking Mule Records
• First (paying big name) Client:
  Taj Mahal
• First Studio:
  Bear West Recording
• First (big name) Studio:
  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
• Other (big name) producers and engineers worked with:
  Erik Jacobsen, Rob Cavallo, T-Bone Burnett, John Golden, Fred Catero and Lee Hershberg
• Mark's Gear; also see Mark's Latest Gear Press
• Most essential piece of gear Mark owns:
  UAD Plugins
• Top CD's Mark feels everyone should have in their music library:
  • Definitely Maybe, Oasis
  • London Calling, The Clash
  • Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
  • Nevermind, Nirvana
  • Rumors, Fleewood Mac
  • Revolver, The Beatles
  • Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
• Did you know?
  • Mark was a teacher (he taught recording music) at the Blue Bear School of Music (that's Mark in the hat peeking out to the right side of the photo).
  • Mark appears in a pureMix tutorial for the Imagine Dragons hit "It's Time"
  • Mark is on the Advisory Board of the Max Sound Corporation
  • Mark helped create the Toontrack "Mark Needham EZmix Pack"
  • Mark earned his OUPV Captain's license from the US Coast Guard; so, the next time you get married (a captain of a vessel can officiate a wedding), please let us know.
• Favorite drink: Tejava ice tea
• If you are going to buy Mark a drink at a bar, he would prefer:
  A Kettle One Martini, dry with olives