ED CHERNEY
Ed Cherney is an American recording engineer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California. Over his career, he has earned two Grammy awards, three Emmy Award nominations, and five TEC Awards. Cherney is also known within the film world for his work on A Mighty Wind, The Bourne Legacy, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Besides the Kill City CD and a Kill City LP on hand-mixed colored vinyl in the stack of albums that I am currently playing my way through (this pressing presumably uses a 2010 remix of the album from the original multi-track tapes by James Williamson and engineer Ed Cherney), I have other copies of Kill City around here, including a copy on purple vinyl and even a 10” vinyl release of Kill City – that one has 8 cuts rather than 11 and omits the two “Night Theme” tracks at the end of Side 1 and the beginning of Side 2, with the only full song omitted being “Master Charge”. I thought that I had ordered many years ago a package that included a copy of the original 1977 album on green vinyl (that would be one of the LP’s pressed and sold by Jem Records) plus a later copy with a better sound mix, but I cannot seem to put my hands on the green album.
(December 2017)
