Jerry Finn

On August 21, music producer/mixer Jerry Finn died. After suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in July, Finn was taken off life support on August 9, 2008 after never regaining consciousness. He was 39 years-old.

What Rick Rubin is to Hip-Hop and Hard Rock, Jerry Finn was to Punk Rock. Throughout the 1990's and early 2000's his method redefined the sound of punk, saying that musically it was OK to sound clean and polished and still get their message across to the listener. He mixed Green Day's first major LP Dookie and then followed it with Insomniac. He produced albums with Pennywise, Rancid, MxPx, Alkaline Trio, Tiger Army, AFI, and blink-182.

I came into contact with Mr. Finn almost five years ago through the Morrissey-Solo website. There was an article that was about Morrissey's then-new album being recorded and produced by Jerry Finn. My comment was about what we would expect, and I made the error of saying that Sorrow from The Process of Belief was mixed by Finn. My bad.


Moz
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:06 AM
From:
Jerry Finn
jerryfinn@mac.com
To:
this_charming_man_13@yahoo.com

Hi,

I was just reading your post on the Morrissey-solo sight and I really
enjoyed it. I wanted to correct one thing though. I didn't mix "
Sorrow " for Bad Religion. I only mixed one track on that album. It
was a tune called " Epiphany " and it was much darker than a majority
of the album.

Glad to see you liked "About Time" I wish they made them like that
still.

Thanks for your time, Jerry Finn

P.S. The new Morrissey album is going to be incredible. The band have
really outdone themselves. Not to worry.


We exchanged more emails after that, but not too many as he kept very busy. A great lad, gone too goddamn soon. His amazing work will never be duplicated, and the man himself is missed greatly.

Below is just a sample of his producing work.

Green Day - Basket Case

Pennywise - It's What You Do With It

Rancid - Journey to the End of the East Bay

Bad Religion - Epiphany

Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You

AFI - Love Like Winter

blink-182 - Not Now