Earle Mankey

Earle Mankey is an American musician, record producer and audio engineer. He was a founding member and guitarist for the band Halfnelson, later called Sparks. He became a record producer, predominantly for Los Angeles area bands like the Pop, 20/20, the Runaways, Concrete Blonde, Jumpin' Jimes, the Long Ryders, the Three O'Clock, the Tearaways, the Conditionz, Adicts, Durango 95, Leslie Pereira and the Lazy Heroes, and Kristian Hoffman. He is the brother of Concrete Blonde guitarist James Mankey. As an engineer, his work includes The Beach Boys Love You and M.I.U. Album by The Beach Boys. Mankey's route into studio work began formally with the demo recordings he engineered for Halfnelson. Using two stereo reel-to-reel tape recorders he painstakingly built up the tracks by recording onto the first recorder and then playing the results back into the second recorder along with a simultaneous performance either by himself on guitar or Ron Mael on keyboards until a finished backing track was completed, to which Russell Mael then added vocals. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_M...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)