David Thoener

David started his career in 1974 as an assistant engineer at the Record Plant in New York City. He learned his craft working on such seminal albums as Aerosmith "Toys In The Attic," Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run," David Bowie "Young Americans," John Lennon "Walls and Bridges," Electric Light Orchestra "Face The Music" and Richie Blackmore "Rainbow Rising."



David began engineering and mixing records in 1976, and since then has enjoyed a thirty year run of hit records including classic records for AC/DC ("For Those About To Rock") , John Mellencamp (including "Little Pink Houses"), John Waite (including the smash "Missing You"), J. Geils Band (all of their hits), Matchbox 20 and many others.



In 2000, David won two Grammys -- Record of the Year and Album of the Year -- for recording and mixing "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas. In 2005, David mixed hit records for Rob Thomas "Lonely No More", Jason Mraz "Wordplay", Canadian rock band, Idol Sons, in 2006 country artist Faith Hill's "Fireflies" and several hits on Sugarlands new "Enjoy The Ride" CD . Just finished a new New York rock band called Article A and currently working on rock band from South Africa, Civil Twilight. New artists worked with this year (2008) include Duffy, My Chemical Romance, Williams Riley Band, Jennifer Paige, Ricardo Arjona and The Jaguares who won a GRAMMY on "45" a CD that David mixed for them in 2008, alt. rock Latin catagory, David's third Grammy. They also won two Latin Grammys for the same record. Ricardo Arjona has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy in Latin POP for a record David mixed at the end of 08. In 08 finished working with Cee-Lo and Jewla. In 09 mixed tracks for King Billy, Williams Riley Band, Katie Armiger, Miyuki Nakijima and Misia,Williams Riley, Mark McKinney and Alex Woodard.
2010 projects include: John Waite CD Rough and Tumble, co-producer, engineer and mixer-5 tracks.
Here Come The Mummies CD Carnal Carnival-mixed. Saul Hernandez CD Remando-mixed. Miyuki Nakajima CD Midnight Zoo-recorded and mixed. Australian artist Sinead Burgess-mixed. Sony Nashville artist Adam Brand-mixed.
For a complete discography with dates please go to www.allmusic.com or go to www.davidthoener.com to contact through email. Please check out albumcredits.com for a list of credits also. Thank you
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