User:Tkmallon/Tom Mallon

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Tom Mallon
Tom Mallon c. 1995
Tom Mallon c. 1995
Background information
Birth nameThomas Kevin McCorgray
Occupation(s)Recording engineer, record producer, musician
Instrument(s)Drums, bass guitar, guitar
Years active1977–present
Websitewww.grifterrec.com


Thomas K. Mallon (born 24 December 1956 in New York City, New York; also known as T. K. Mallon-McCorgray) is a San Francisco-based audio engineer, record producer and musician.


Early Life[edit]

Mallon grew up in upper Manhattan; he and his family moved to Greenwood Lake, New York when he was eight. He played drums in marching bands and competing color guards and began teaching himself guitar as a fifth-grader. In 1971, he moved to San Francisco. After years of playing in garage bands, tentative songwriting and self-propelled, four-track recording projects, he began recording bands full time in 1978.[1]


As Engineer and Producer[edit]

[under construction, obviously]

From 1978 through 1998, Mallon operated a small recording studio in San Francisco.

Mallon has been called "the Mitch Easter of the Bay Area."[2] Mallon was active in the early Northern California punk rock and hardcore scene, engineering more than half of the 47 bands on the seminal "Not So Quiet on the Western Front" compilation LP (Alternative Tentacles, 1982 -- including Fang, Crucifix, Los Olvidados, Bad Posture, Urban Assault, Dead Kennedys, Impatient Youth, Whipping Boy, Free Beer).

He also recorded the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Eastern Front concerts at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, the so-called “Days On the Dirt” and "Punk Woodstocks" which featured Middle Class, D.O.A., Chronic Generation, The Slits, Flipper, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Circle Jerks, T.S.O.L., Toiling Midgets, Offs, Suicidal Tendencies, Hüsker Dü, Snakefinger, Saint Vitus, Personality Crisis, Jody Foster’s Army, among others. Two albums of selected material from the 1981 and 1982 shows have been released.

Early girl bands:[3] the Contractions, Wilma, the Varve, GOD, Wild Women of Borneo, Stir-ups, Barely Human

Fowl Records: Precision Bearings, Black Humor, Fuck Ups, Verbal Abuse, Urban Assault, Captain Don Leslie, Legionnaire's Disease, Bob Pittman, Rebels & Infidels

Experimental Theater: Gnat Music,[4] Nightfire/Snake Theatre and Soon 3,[5] Laura Farabough, Nick Urbaniak, Roy Marcom, composer Bob Davis (Outcalls/Riptides);[6] The Architecture of Catastrophic Change, George Coates Performance Works[7] and composer Marc Ream.

1998-2000, Mallon was involved with Mike Jordan's production collective NotJustMe, recording music for the film documentary Jackin' the Ball[8] -- live recording of the jazz and experimental rock bands Isotope 217, Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells w/Pharoah Sanders and John Faddis, the Broun Fellinis, Tom Ze and Tortoise.


Grifter Records[edit]

In 1986, Mallon started a small label to release American Music Club, Flying Color lps


American Music Club[edit]

Main article: American Music Club

"California" is one of the 25 albums listed for 1988 in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die [9]

Toiling Midgets[edit]

Main article: Toiling Midgets

The Midget's second lp was released on Joe Carducci's[10] Thermidor label.

Negative Trend[edit]

Main article: Negative Trend

Selected Discography[edit]

  • American Music Club, The Restless Stranger, Grifter/Frontier; Warner Bros. (1985), Engine, Grifter/Frontier; Demon/Zippo; Warner Bros. (1987), California, Grifter/Frontier; Demon (1988), United Kingdom, Grifter/Demon (1989)
  • Assassins Of God, Black Tongue Speaks, Bonzen/Efa (1991), TechnologicalMythicLimbo, Bonzen/Efa (1993)
  • Black Humor, Love God, Love One Another, Fowl (1982)
  • Blue Movie, Hearts In Clubs, Goodfoot (1986)
  • Bob Bradshaw, Resident Aliens, Fluke (1995)
  • Chance the Gardener, The Day the Dogs Took Over, Warner Bros./Reprise (1996)
  • Condemned To Death, Diary of a Love Monster, Land Mine/R Radical (1984)
  • Crucifix, Crucifix, Universal (1981)
  • Daddy In His Deep Sleep, Alone With Daddy, (produced by Scott Miller), Restless (1987)
  • Cynthia Dall, Untitled (produced by Bill Callahan and Jim O'Rourke), Drag City (1996)
  • Carmaig DeForest, I Shall Be Released, (produced by Alex Chilton), Goodfoot/New Rose (1986)
  • Flying Color, Flying Color, Grifter/Frontier; Munster (1987)
  • Fuck Ups, FU '82, Fowl (1982)
  • Indian Bingo, Overwrought, Rockville (1993)
  • Chris Isaak, Silvertone, Warner Bros. (1985), Chris Isaak, Warner Bros. (1986), incidental music in Blue Velvet (produced by Erik Jacobsen)
  • Lucky, Halloween Night and Saturday, November 1st, Magnus Martyr (1993), Candlebearer Catches Fire, Magnus Martyr (1997)
  • Map of Wyoming, Round Trip, Innerstate (1997), Trouble Is, Innerstate (2000), Double Take, Love Cat Music (2003)
  • Our Lady of the Highway, About Leaving, Fogsnob (2003)
  • Part Time Christians, Rock and Roll Is Disco, (produced by East Bay Ray), Alternative Tentacles (1984)
  • Pell Mell, The Bumper Crop, Rough Trade/Sixth International (1984); SST (1987)
  • Pop-o-pies, Joe's Second Record, Subterranean Records (1984)
  • Phantom Limbs, Romance, Modern Masters (1983), Train of Thought, Modern Masters/CD Presents (1986)
  • Star Pimp, Docudrama, Kill Rock Stars (1996)
  • Thin White Rope, Sack Full of Silver, Frontier/RCA (1990)
  • Toiling Midgets, Sea of Unrest, Instant/Rough Trade (1982), Deadbeats, Thermidor (1984), Son, Matador/Virgin/Hut (1992)
  • Torcher, The Beautiful Sounds Of ..., Tim/Kerr (1995)
  • Wade, Wade, Spirit Music (1993)
  • Whipping Boy, The Sound of No Hands Clapping, (produced by Klaus Flouride), CFY (1983)


Star Pimp interview [11] X-Capees[12] Hardcore California[13] Tom Mallon interview, Music & Sound Output, 1988, page 1 [14] 12 Days on the Road[15]

Wish The World Away[16]

Punk Diary: 1970-1982[17] Punk '77[18] Toiling Midgets - MySpace[19] Discogs - Tom Mallon[20] All Music Guide - Tom Mallon[21] Dale Duncan Interview, SFWeekly, October 25, 2000[22] Dale Duncan Interview, Bucketful of Brains[23] Retrospective Foresight: Restless Stranger[24] Phantom Limbs, Tucson Weekly, January 5, 1985[25]

References[edit]

  1. ^ San Francisco Chronicle, Image Magazine, June 8, 1986
  2. ^ WARD Report, February, 1986, cover article
  3. ^ see: f-stop Fitzgerald Weird Angle, Last Gasp, 1982, pages ___
  4. ^ http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~tebo/history/ History of Experimental Music In Northern California
  5. ^ Magic Theatre
  6. ^ http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~tebo/history/Composers/B.Davis/BobDavisBio.html
  7. ^ http://www.georgecoates.org/psho.html
  8. ^ http://www.notjustme.com/html/about.html
  9. ^ Robert Dimery, Editor, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, Quintet Publishing Limited, 2008, page 599
  10. ^ Carducci, Joe, Rock and the Pop Narcotic, Redoubt, 3rd Edition, 2005
  11. ^ http://www.inkoma.com/pages/interviews/starpimp.html
  12. ^ Santos, McCaffrey, Fitzgerald, Klein, X-Capees, X-Capees Press, 1981
  13. ^ Belsito and Davis, Hardcore California, Last Gasp, 1983
  14. ^ Music & Sound Output, 1988, page 1
  15. ^ Monk, Noel and Guterman, James, 12 Days on the Road: the Sex Pistols and America, Harper Collins, 1990
  16. ^ Body, Sean, Wish The World Away - Mark Eitzel and the American Music Club, SAF Publishing, 1999
  17. ^ Gimarc,George, Punk Diary: 1970-1982, Backbeat Books, 2005
  18. ^ Stark, James, Punk '77, RE/Search, 3rd Edition, 2006
  19. ^ Toiling Midgets - MySpace
  20. ^ Discogs - Tom Mallon
  21. ^ All Music Guide - Tom Mallon
  22. ^ Dale Duncan Interview, SFWeekly, October 25, 2000
  23. ^ Dale Duncan Interview, Bucketful of Brains
  24. ^ Retrospective Foresight: Restless Stranger
  25. ^ Phantom Limbs, Tuscon Weekly, January 5, 1985


External links[edit]


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