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KELLY O

ONCE:

Turned down an offer from Green Day to produce what would become the mega-popular punk band’s 1997 album Nimrod, because he didn’t want to do it in Billie Joe Armstrong’s home studio on a Mackie board.

PRODUCED:

A handful of Nirvana songs, but thought the Kurt Cobain
biopic Cobain: Montage of Heck was exploitative rubbish.

PLAYED:

Keyboards on Pell Mell’s Flow, one of the greatest albums
in the legendary catalog of SST Records.

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...