John Loder RIP

The comments section says it all.

Oddly quiet here...this man was a giant. There would be very little of what we reccognize as the underground without him. From Crass to Dischord to Godspeed and beyond. Maybe people find this music unfasionable now, but the influence is enormous. Certainly he is resonsible for the notion of a music-based alternative to mainstream culture.
Again, an unfashionable notion in current climes-but probably the last great notion we've had- and one still very much alive.
God bless you, John.

I don't find the music unfashionable at all, the name just didn't ring a bell until I googled him. (owner of Southern Records and recording studios, engineer for Crass, The Jesus Lizard, Shellac - am I missing anything? short intro, please?)

from april skies regarding his work with The Jesus and Mary Chain:

"John Loder engineered the recordings of the "Never Understand", "You Trip Me Up" and "Just Like Honey" singles and the Psychocandy album. He also received co-production credit with William for three tracks on the Darklands album ("Nine Million Rainy Days", "Fall", and "About You"). In 1988 he co-produced "Sidewalking" and the Barbed Wire Kisses compilation with the Reids. All the sessions with Loder were held at Southern Studios."

= CLASSIC. RIP.

I just read this, never met the man but recorded a couple of times at Southern and admired him from afar. Feel very heavy hearted looking at the picture and reading the notices on that site.

It sucks when somebody dies and it's only then that you realize that they worked on records that you love. I never got to appreciate him while he was still living. RIP.

a true genius.

damn....between this and michael dahlquist from skwm, it's been a shitty few weeks. RIP.

I'd extend to that John Peel as well... been a bad year all 'round. :(

reposting this from another forum:

About half the records I bought when I was in high school had his name in the credits. I won't begin to mention how often it appeared once I got involved in college radio.

It's hard for me to directly make an emotional connection to his passing, as he's always appeared as a name on my record collection, and never someone I met -- so I'm really thankful to read all the comments in the blog entry and get a sense of what he was like.

Please. If you did meet him, and have enough worthy of commenting, I encourage you to do so and add your words. Because I felt the emotional hit after reading those initial comments, and I think there deserves to be more recollections and stories about him. I want a reason to feel the impact, because his work has had a tremendous influence on the side of my life that I'm passionate about. (Just as much as John Peel did... even though I've never met him either.)

Only just heard abou this. Fuck it.

The John Peel comment is OTM, donut. John L may not have been as well known by the masses, but he influenced almost every type music I have found worthwhile in the past 20 years, be it as an engineer, producer, co-record company founder, whatever.

For all us Shellac fans it should be enough to know that John Loder was a friend of Shellac, i.e. he received a copy of the Futurist. Just how much of a friend is eloquently stated by Albini in the blog link above.

Be at peace, John L and thanks for all of it.

a very sad loss. the man was a giant. thanks john.

"avoid funeral attire"

Sasha's kind words...
http://www.sashafrerejones.com/
This past Saturday, John Loder passed away. Loder founded Southern Studios, which, over time, spawned Southern Records. His achievements in the D.I.Y. community are enormous: for starters, Southern still produces and distributes Dischord Records. A less enormous achievement, but relevant to us here: without him and his American counterpart, Danielle Soto, there would be only one Ui record (our first EP). He was one of the two significant British Johns in the band's life, the other being John Peel. Peel was an indirect presence, a radio patron and a north star for us aging weirdos to follow; Loder was very much in our lives—a voice on the phone, a cheerleader and a constant friend.

John was one of the most generous and kick-ass people I've had the pleasure to know. He was never, ever done with music. He had constant enthusiasm for new bands, and was infinitely patient with musicians, even when they were fractious and juvenile. I will not forget the image of him coming towards us, hugs for all, when he retrieved the band from Heathrow in 1996, at the start of our first nervous trip as a band. He wore a freshly laundered Melt-Banana t-shirt and told stories about Crass, offering us room and board in his house while we recorded an EP that wasn't even coming out on his label.

We should all be so lucky as to meet half a Loder.
Posted by Sasha at 05:13 PM | TrackBack (0)

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I only just found out he died.

RIP, and thanks.