Welcome to the official myspace site of THE PRODUCERS, the band that penned and performs to this very day hits like SHE SHEILA, WHAT SHE DOES TO ME & I LOVE LUCY!
This site is set up for all fans to connect and interact with each other as well as Wayne, Bryan, Van, Kyle and Tim. So, please feel free to add your comments as they do read them!
Hey New Orleans fans! Who could forget all of the memorable times The Producers performed on the Riverboat President? For those who lived too far away, the President had a large room with a stage bands would perform on. The famous steamboat would leave port during the performance and go down the Mississippi river during the show! Ever wonder what happen to the ole girl?
Click here for history and current status of the S.S. President.
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Wanna know when the Producers may be playing in your area? Read the blog of Van's interview!
Taken between 1982-1983 from Super fan Mark Vaquer! Thanks, Mark!
Memorial Day 2007, THE PRODUCERS visited Cuba and performed for our troops at Gitmo. Check out the slide-show! For more photos and a review of the performance, click below on the link to the website!
Thanks to all of the fans who came out to see THE PRODUCERS in Metairie!
The PRODUCERS are based out of Atlanta, GA and have adopted a few cities along the way! Is your hometown one of them?
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We want to hear from you! Tell us where you're from! Share your messages to the band! Share your memories, thoughts, photos and memoribila! Don't forget to add The PRODUCERS in your favorite music listing and of course, your TOP FRIENDS! Thanks to all that have done so already!
MUSIC DOWNLOADS:
We have received overwhelming requests to make music downloads available. Unfortunately, we are not able to make downloads available due to publishing and copyrights restrictions. MYSPACE Music will be rotated from time to time though.
CD MUSIC AVAILABILITY:
Currently, there aren't any CD's in retail locations. In 2000, The first 2 lp's were remastered & released onto one CD but is now out-of-print. You may find them on Ebay or Amazon. The price is high because the demand is high and there are not enough CD's for everyone. The 3rd lp has never made it to CD but there is talk of releasing it this year. The 4th album, out-of-print also, is available at Amazon.
FROM THE 1981 BIO KIT:
It wasn't too long ago that you could safely predict that any band hailing from Georgia would sport a trio of lead guitarists and a collection of songs devoted to women, whiskey and general hellraisin'. The Producers may call Atlanta home, but the music on The Producers, the quartet's debut Portrait album, is a striking blend of pop and rock that's far removed from standard southern boogie.
"The Atlanta scene is absolutely influenced by modern music, what has gone on for the last two or three years, and that's definitely the scene we're from," says Kyle Henderson. "Atlanta has produced at least two major modern bands and that's proof in itself that it's not the southern boogie scene. The B-52s are from Athens but they played Atlanta constantly and the Brains, who didn't sell as well but met with great reviews, are from Atlanta."
The Producers -- Van Temple (guitar/vocals), Wayne Famous (keyboards/vocals), Bryan Holmes (drums/vocals) and Henderson (bass/vocals) -- learned their instruments in the usual assortment of original and cover bands in and around the Atlanta club circuit. The band formed when Henderson caught Temple, Famous, and Holmes playing at Uncle Tom's Tavern in Atlanta on New Year's Eve of 1979.
Struck by a personal affinity with their music, Henderson immediately asked them if he could join the band. After an introductory jam that night proved that the chemistry was there, The Producers officially became a band on New Year's Day, 1980.
They spent the next few months rehearsing and writing new material before returning to the club circuit, mixing dates featuring their own songs with cover jobs to keep the money flowing. "We played with the Pretenders at the Agora in Atlanta," Holmes remembers, "and the next night we went across the street and played cover songs at a fraternity party at Georgia Tech."
In August, the band's manager contacted Tom Werman (Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Molly Hatchet) about working with the band. When Werman suggested the band come up to New York to play for him, The Producers promptly canceled some Florida club dates and hopped into a van for the drive north.
We drove 17 hours straight to play one 45 minute set for him at SIR in New York," Henderson recalls. We were all hoping he would say, 'Sounds good, let me hear a tape.' We would have considered that a positive statement in this day and age."
Werman's response was a good deal more enthusiastic than that, and listening to The Producers will provide more than enough reasons why. The album reveals a distinctive, impeccable blend of basic rock drive, pop craftsmanship and memorable melodic hooks to burn on a collection of a dozen group-penned original songs.
"Usually, one or 2 people have the original idea, but we're trying to give the job of arranging a song as much importance as possible," maintains Henderson. "How the songs end up sounding is very dependent upon the input of all 4 members, so everybody is getting credit."
In the tradition of most great rock bands, the Producers have synthesized their individual influences into an imaginative, accessible style of their own. Werman's crisp, crackling production captures the assured power of the band's performance on material ranging from driving rock ("Sensations," "Who Do You Think You Are") to catchy pop ("Boys Say When," "What She Does To Me").
The lead vocals, shared by Temple and Henderson, are augmented by beautifully crafted and executed backing harmonies. The lyrics offer fresh twists and provocative insights into that most universal of themes, modern romance.
There's no sense in writing about something if no one's going to understand what you're talking about," Famous contends. "We really take pride in pushing the lyrics out so you can understand them. There is a meaning in the songs and we don't want to disguise it."
We feel, across the board as a band, that simplicity is a virtue, not a liability," Henderson sums up. "If there's a musical idea that's great in its simplest form, then keep it that way. To add too much to a simple, great idea is to take its greatness away."
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