Dave Klein is an American producer, composer and musician with over 25 years' experience as professional

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. Recorded and toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America with Agent Orange, Sky Saxon and The Seeds, The Ghastly Ones, Woolly Bandits and The Bomboras and has worked with Rob Zombie and producers Scott Humphrey, Barry Adamson and Christopher Wade Damerst. Owner and operator of Dave Klein Recording, his private studio located in the hills of

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Production, recording, and mixed projects

Artists Dave Klein has worked with: *The Faction *Decry *The Bomboras * Agent Orange * 45 Grave *

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Guttermouth Guttermouth is an American punk rock band formed in 1988 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Rude Records. They have released nine full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured extensively, including perfor ...

* Radioactive Chicken Heads *Headnoise *Messer Chups *Tony Valentino of The Standells *Sky Saxon *Powerflex 5 *Didi Wray *False Confession *The Clap *PRV13 *Destruction Made Simple *Bitch Boys *Enemy Proof *Micheal Fordays *Hear Say *No Refunds *Brook Hoover *Candy Smokes *Sky Lee Vague *Baptized In Sin *Los Mercs *Cleary Country *Lewis Bailey *Charlie Overbey *Kapali Long *Devin Barryhill *Parallel 2 Hell *Par Avion *Mortalis *Creature Preachers *King Archie *Cashew & Cleary *Pandemic Unleashed * Throw The Goat *Gamblers Mark *Soraia *The Love Me Nots * The Ghastly Ones *

The Droogs The Droogs were an American rock group from Los Angeles, California, United States, initially active between 1972 and 1992, with the majority of releases from the mid-1980s onwards. History The Droogs was formed in 1972, by Ric Albin (vocals), ...

* In The Whale *Chuck Treece *Chris Strompolos *Ami Canaan Mann *Daaman Krall *

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*Casey Royer *Tony Reflux *The Step Daughters *Lonely Stars *Stay Out *Koi Division *Celebrity Stalker *Frozen Charlottes *Southpaw *LA's Forgotten *Spice Pistols *Justin Paul Sanders *Vince Conrad (Smart Pills, The Aliens) *John Rosewall (The Last, Trotsky Icepick) *Los Grainders (Mexico) *Blaklist *SWINE *The Intros *Sewerside Bombers *Johnny Two Chords *Haze *Empty Tactics *Jabbermouth *The Tiki Creeps *The Ruffolos *The LessOffs *Skarletto and the Apocalypse *The Tankerays *The Slithers *Haymaker (Prague CZ) *Vegas Death Ray *The Blanks *Wick *Shawn Preston *The Whining Pussys *Unpresidented *John Ciulik *The Curse *C:28 *45 Spider *The Ultra 4 *Shubees *Haiz *Off The Wall *Scurvy Kids *The Hellflowers *The Bots *The Sound Reasons *Good Whales *The Green Machines *The Nathaniel Johnstone Band *The Green Ghosts * The Cherry Drops *The Aquaholics *The Atom Age *The Sirens *The Unclaimed *

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and Bubble Gun *Moonchasers *The Sloths *The Vooduo *The Thingz *Prost! * Sepo *The Seriouslys *Feral Kizzy *The Tammy Olea Band *

Unextraordinary Gentlemen Unextraordinary Gentlemen (UXG) is a musical project formed in Los Angeles in 2005 by bassist/keyboardist Richard Pilawski (previously with the surf punk band Sex with Lurch) & vocalist/lyricist Eric Schreeck to "...explore our love for post-punk, ...

*Galactic Romance *The Last Wolves *BloodPenny *FroBro and Friends *

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*Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *The Darklings *The Odd Squad *The 20 Grand Club *The Ghosts of Searchlight *The Beat Killers *Ding Dong Devils *The Rough Boys *The Returners *The Spanks *The Hitz *Thee Spectors *The Headless Hearsemen. *Frozen Charlottes *The Me Gustas Dave has also recorded with Rob Zombie and Producers

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, Barry Adamson and Christopher Wade Damerst.

Touring

Dave has variously recorded and toured throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia with: * Agent Orange *

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Ghastly Ones The Ghastly Ones are a surf–garage rock band from Van Nuys, California with a late-night monster movie theme. History The Ghastly Ones were formed by two Special FX make up/movie monster makers, Garrett Immel aka Dr. Lehos and Norman Cabrera ak ...

The Bomboras The Bomboras are an American all-instrumental surf band from Los Angeles, California, United States. The band was formed in the summer of 1994, sharing a love of 1960s surf and garage music such as The Ventures, Booker T, and The Sonics. Donning D ...

* The Witchdoctors *

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* The Legendary Invisible Men

Film and game credits

Dave's television, film and game credits include: * Thrasher Magazine King of the Road series (intro theme) *Speed Traveler (intro theme) *The Adventures of Crash Tucker (theme) *Music featured in ''

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'' (DVD) *FOX Television's "Raising Hope" *2009 release of '' Night of the Demons'' *
Los Campeones De La Lucha
' *'' Starship Troopers'' *''

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Board Heads
' *Music featured in ''Tony Hawk 2'' for iPhone *''I Was A Teenage Monster Shirt Painter'' *Additional sound for Bryan Birge's Urban Nomads.

Current projects

He was composing, recording and drumming for OC surf/punk legends Agent Orange, and producing bands in his private studio in Los Angeles.

Discography

Agent Orange

* Halloween Single - This house Is Haunted b/w Whistling Past The Graveyard, 2010

Woolly Bandits

* Say Hello To My Little Friend, 2004

Bomboras

* Savage Island, 1995 * Swingin' Singles!, 1996 * Organ Grinder, 1995/1997 * Starship Troopers, 1997 * It Came from Pier 13!, 1997 * Board Headz movie, 1998 * Head Shrinkin' Fun, 1998

The Finks

*Fill er up and Go

Ghastly Ones

* A Haunting We Will Go-Go, 1998 * Target: Draculon, 2006 * Unearthed, 2007 * SpongeBob Scaredy Pants, SpongeBob SquarePants: Original Theme Highlights, 2001 * "Flying Saucers Over Van Nuys", green vinyl 45", 2006

The Legendary Invisible Men

*Who's Sorry Now?, 2000 *Come Get Some, 2002

The Seeds

*Red Planet, 2004

The Witchdoctors

*Witchdoctor A Go Go

External links

Dave Klein Production & Recording

Agent Orange

The Ghastly Ones

References

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