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Canadian, eh!
Bob Ezrin is among the recipients of the Canadian 2025 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. This award recognizes artists who have “made an indelible contribution to cultural life in Canada and around the world”. The awards ceremony will be held on June 14, 2025, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Bob Ezrin, O.C. – Music and entertainment producer, music education advocate and serial activist
In a legendary career as a music and entertainment producer and entrepreneur, Bob Ezrin has worked around the world on recordings, TV, film, and live event production with such prominent international artists as Pink Floyd, U2, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart, Andrea Bocelli, Taylor Swift, Alice Cooper, Edward Burtynsky, Kiss, Lou Reed, The Canadian Tenors, Aerosmith, Hollywood Vampires, Berlin, and Nine Inch Nails, among many others. One of the most highly respected and sought-after producers in the world, he is also a generous philanthropist and a passionate advocate for music education.
Congratulations to Mr. Ezrin on this well deserved honour!
Thanks to the NAC for the info.
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My favorite producer long before he and DP connected.
I first took note of him with Alice Cooper – and I always found Alice Cooper studio recordings great sounding. And then he gave KISS – until then a glorified garage band – a sonic makeover for Destroyer, the album that stands head, shoulders, fake theater blood and breathed fire over anything else they have done.
February 21st, 2025 at 21:47Well done Mr Ezrin, a life well lived. Those Canadians eh? They seem to have a penchant for quality music in many ways. Cheers.
February 21st, 2025 at 22:18Congrats Bob – from a fellow Canadian and musician!
February 22nd, 2025 at 00:36A very perceptive man. I like how he speaks about Roger Waters, never the easiest person to have around and enticing to just easily dismiss, but Bob remains fair and balanced …
https://youtu.be/4H7ZPgMh-Is
February 22nd, 2025 at 16:17I finally found the explanation how I got to Bob being responsible for Peter Gabriel‘s New Blood work (mixed up due to my lamentable oversight into the ‘When the trees stop growing” thread): Bob produced the predecessor album Scratch My Back where Peter only did covers, inter alia this one here:
https://youtu.be/LsvuipGq2ns
It’s the album that inspired the New Blood phase. The arrangement of ‘Heroes’ is still John Metcalfe though, Svante remains right.
February 22nd, 2025 at 19:04very well deserved award Mr. Ezrin, congratulations!
February 22nd, 2025 at 20:47@6 And Ezrin produced Gabriel’s first album in ’77. So the relationship is a long one.
February 22nd, 2025 at 22:21He’s been producing most of Auntie Alice’s work for 54 years now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfqrZvKI_1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHaODwrw0Y
February 23rd, 2025 at 04:20Bob Erzin will be recorded in great layers in the history of the DP. Era 2013 and until the end. He is the sixth member of the band ,in the shadows…and gray enimency.
Found a measure for vocal big Ian,appropriate measure.Gillan in his late sixties yers and seventies sings and sounds phenomenal ,it’s not the vocal heights like in his youth days , the ease of singing that is amazing for his age
L. L. Bob !!!
February 23rd, 2025 at 08:20In other Bob news,he has begun the process of renouncing his US citizenship and has already returned to live in Canada,
February 28th, 2025 at 21:53