Eric Valentine
Eric Dodd, known professionally as Eric Valentine, is an American record producer who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride.
He subsequently produced albums for artists such as Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, The All-American Rejects, Persephone's Bees, and Slash, among others.
Early life
Valentine's first experience with music was listening to The Monkees as a child and wanting to play drums. He received a three-piece drum set from a garage sale, leading to him taking drum lessons at the age of 9. Around that same time, Eric started listening to bands such as Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Kiss, along with jazz fusion bands such as Weather Report from drum teachers. His father's career as an aerospace engineer was enough for him to get a four-track and learn on his own.Personal life
Valentine married Grace Potter in 2017 and they have a son born in 2018.Discography
- T-Ride – T-Ride
- The Conscious Daughters – Ear to the Street
- Paris – Guerrilla Funk
- Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
- The Conscious Daughters – Gamers
- Dwarves – The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking
- Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
- Smash Mouth – Fush Yu Mang
- The Braids – Here We Come
- Joe Satriani – Crystal Planet
- Brougham – "I Walked In"
- Vital Information – Where We Come From
- Tom Coster – From the Street
- Smash Mouth – Astro Lounge
- Citizen King – Mobile Estates
- Snake River Conspiracy – Sonic Jihad
- Dwarves – Come Clean
- Deathray – Deathray
- Smash Mouth – Smash Mouth
- Scapegoat Wax – Okeeblow
- Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
- Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless
- Kelly Osbourne – "Papa Don't Preach"
- Lostprophets – Start Something
- John Fogerty – Deja Vu All Over Again
- Good Charlotte – The Chronicles of Life and Death
- Dwarves – The Dwarves Must Die
- Skye Sweetnam – Noise from the Basement
- Nickel Creek – Why Should the Fire Die?
- Aslyn – Lemon Love
- Taking Back Sunday – Louder Now
- Smash Mouth – Summer Girl
- Mellowdrone – Box
- Persephone's Bees – Notes from the Underworld
- Aqualung – Memory Man
- Hot Hot Heat – Happiness Ltd.
- Maroon 5 – It Won't Be Soon Before Long
- Jesca Hoop – Kismet
- The All-American Rejects – When the World Comes Down
- Tracy Hamlin – Better Days
- Jackiem Joyner – Lil' Man Soul
- Theo Tams – Give It All Away
- Slash – Slash
- Steve Lukather – All's Well That Ends Well
- Chris Standring – Blue Bolero
- Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday
- Dwarves – The Dwarves Are Born Again
- The Wombats – This Modern Glitch
- Slash – Apocalyptic Love
- Smash Mouth – Magic
- Steve Lukather – Transition
- Blag Dahlia – "Metrosexual Man"
- Dwarves – The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll
- Nickel Creek – A Dotted Line
- 5 Seconds of Summer – 5 Seconds of Summer
- The Madden Brothers – Greetings from California
- Supersuckers – Get the Hell
- Nightmare and the Cat – Simple
- 5 Seconds of Summer – Sounds Good Feels Good
- The Wombats – Glitterbug
- Grace Potter – Midnight
- Richard Elliot – Summer Madness
- Peter White – Groovin'
- Good Charlotte – Youth Authority
- Grace VanderWaal – Perfectly Imperfect
- Gwen Stefani – You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- Death from Above 1979 – Outrage! Is Now
- Weezer – Pacific Daydream
- The Story So Far – ''Proper Dose''