David Walter Carlock is an American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His production style has been described as very hands on and song oriented. He received a

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for engineering

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Biography

Early life

Carlock was born in

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, the son of Jane (née Hadley), and Nelson Carlock. He discovered his love of music by singing in front of restaurant jukeboxes at the age of four. In junior high school, he taught himself guitar, bass, and keyboards. After graduating from St. Joseph High School, Carlock was an engineer at local recording studios, produced bands, and did string arrangements for a 60-piece symphony. He attended

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in Kalamazoo, Michigan on an academic scholarship, before deciding to focus solely on his musical career.

Early career

He began his professional career as a songwriter and session musician for Columbia Records artist

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, contributing songs and vocal and instrumental arrangements to LaMond's debut record '' Bad of the Heart''. Carlock built a 16-track recording studio and continued to develop as a producer and writer. He later moved to New York, where he stayed for three years, and then moved to Los Angeles. While in New York, Carlock worked as a technician and consultant with artists such as

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and Lenny Kravitz using a recording platform known as

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. He produced local bands, most notably

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, who signed with Elektra Records.

1998–2008

Carlock moved to Los Angeles, where he worked with

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. He partnered with Ladanyi's Tidal Wave Entertainment in 1999 for a year, during which time they co-produced, with

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' live/studio hybrid album ''Tubes World Tour 2001'', which featured collaborations with Richard Marx and Steve Lukather. Carlock's involvement with Ladanyi also led to sessions with Eric Clapton,

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, and others. Carlock started a long collaboration in 2000 with Rancid frontman and punk rock songwriter

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, first as engineer/mixer on several projects for Armstrong's label,

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, and then as co-producer/co-writer. The team's first co-production work was on the Transplants record, which was born out of the combination of two projects: a side project for Armstrong and a separate project Carlock and Armstrong were recording for Armstrong's friend and

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. After working off and on for two years, then adding

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to the band, the Transplants were formed. Carlock toured as keyboardist/sample guru during the Transplants tour with the Foo Fighters and appeared with the band on '' Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' and Snoop Dogg's '' Doggy Fizzle Televizzle'' show. The Transplants singles " Diamonds and Guns" and " D.J. D.J." quickly became MTV favorites and earned the band critical and commercial success. "Diamonds and Guns" has been featured on TV commercials for Garnier Fructis shampoo and

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. The song was used on the soundtrack for the movie ''

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'' (2003). The band followed up the record's success by touring with the Foo Fighters. Carlock engineered on nine songs for

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'' in 2003, performing bass, vocals, keys and programming. Carlock next started up a production label called 27 Sounds to produce and collaborate with unsigned artists. In 2004–2005, Carlock worked with the Transplants for their second album, ''

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'', co-producing and engineering with Tim Armstrong and contributing keyboards, bass, guitar, vocals,

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, and songwriting. In the fall, he also worked with Nine Inch Nails in preparation for their summer tour. In 2006, several EPs produced and cowritten by Carlock were released by 27 Sounds artists. From the first group which included Counterpush, R&B/pop artist Jackie Ray, pop/rock/dance artist Shevyn and 14-year-old pop/rock artist Shelby Spalione. Spalione was immediately signed by the producers of Hannah Montana after hearing her work with Carlock and seeing her perform at the House Of Blues in Hollywood. Shelby soon after adopted the name Shelby Cobra and became lead singer for KSM, on Walt Disney Records. UPDATE: In 2013, Shelby readopted her last name Spalione while appearing on the song "Bang Bang" with Will.I.Am for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, performing the song live with Will.I.Am on American Idol. In the fall of 2007, Carlock relocated his recording studio to an emerging arts community on the shores of Lake Michigan, just outside Chicago and has since been writing and producing independent records for his 27 Sounds artists and mixing for other artists worldwide since.

Awards and honors

In 2003, Carlock received a Grammy Award Certificate for his engineering work on Pink's song "Trouble".

Discography

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***Role: E/Edit *'' We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones'' **Artist: Various ***Label: DV8/Columbia ***Role: M/E *'' Transplants'' **Artist: Transplants ***Label: Hellcat ***Role: P/E/M/W/Instr *''

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References

External links

DaveCarlock.com (official website)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlock, Dave Living people American rock musicians Transplants (band) members Year of birth missing (living people)