Favorite Producer/Artist Combination?

[Mr. T]

I grew up with vinyl and maybe for that reason have always paid great attention to who produces, engineers, etc an album. Easily reading all the credits was part of the magic of the packaging of vinyl to me. Because of that I realized early on that personally I often had favorite producer/artist combinations... combinations that often created my favorite albums by a given artist.

Some examples:

Def Leppard / Mutt Lange
Alice Cooper / Bob Ezrin
Yes / Eddie Offord
Journey / Roy Thomas Baker
Rush / Terry Brown
Van Halen / Ted Templeman
Aerosmith / Jack Douglas
Judas Priest / Tom Allom
Kansas / Jeff Glixman

So the question is... Do you have the favorite combinations also? And who?

 

[Lynch]

A couple off of the top of my head (of which a couple you already mentioned):

AC/DC - Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard - Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Ozzy Osbourne - Max Norman
Judas Priest - Tom Allom
Van Halen - Ted Templeman
Dokken - Michael Wagener
Skid Row - Michael Wagener
Scorpions - Dieter Dierks

 

[Mr. T]

^^^ Great choices Lynch

A couple of others I should have mentioned also...

Queensryche / Peter Collins
U2 / Steve Lillywhite

 

[Lynch]

Ahh crap, a couple more I forgot about:

Ratt - Beau Hill (I think he did their first 4 or 5 albums)
Deep Purple - Martin Birch
Rainbow - Martin Birch
Whitsnake - Martin Birch
Black Sabbath - Martin Birch

(how the hell did I forget about Birch!? he wasn't an producer on all of those albums for DP, Rainbow, etc, but he was either an engineer, producer, mixer or combination of the three on many of those albums )

 

[Mr. T]

LOL... yeh Birch was responsible for a ton of classics.

Another...

Cheap Trick / Tom Werman

 

[LG]

Pink Floyd - Alan Parsons.

Al Stewart - Alan Parsons

The Beatles - Alan Parsons(Assisted on Abbey Road in the studio.)

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Don Landee

Fleetwood Mac (Mark II) - Keith Olsen

Blue Oyster Cult - Sandy Pearlman

Boston - Tom Scholz...if only he wasn't such a perfectionist.

 

[aeroplane]

Bob Rock with both Motley Crue and Metallica.

Managed to get them to focus like they never had before. In my humble opinion.

 

[LG]

Bill Hamm - ZZ Top

Buddy Buie - Atlanta Rhythm Section

Robin Black - Jethro Tull

 

[Mr. T]

Grand Funk Railroad - Terry Knight

 

[LG]

Don't know how I forgot about this one:

Steely Dan - Gary Katz.