# Dave Fridmann

David Lawrence Fridmann is an American record producer and musician.

## Career

From 1990 onwards he co-produced most releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Other bands he has worked with include Weezer, Saxon Shore, Neon Indian, Wolf Gang, Ammonia, Ed Harcourt, Sparklehorse, Creeper Lagoon, Café Tacuba, Creaming Jesus, Elf Power, Mogwai, Thursday, Longwave, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, The Delgados, Low, OK Go, Phantom Planet, Gemma Hayes, Ava Luna, Tame Impala, Goldrush, Tapes 'n Tapes, Baroness, MGMT and Magdalena Bay.
As a musician, Fridmann was the bassist and a founding member of Mercury Rev. He gave up his role as a touring member of the band in 1993 to concentrate on producing other artists. In 2001, Fridmann was included on MOJO's 100 Sonic Visionaries list and was described as "the Phil Spector of the Alt-Rock era". In 2007, he received a Grammy for The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical). In 2010, three Fridmann-produced albums were listed on the Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of The Decade: MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and Sleater-Kinney's The Woods.
Fridmann often brings a distinctive, expansive, open sound to the albums he produces, which has much in common with that used by Mercury Rev.
Fridmann is an occasional faculty member of SUNY Fredonia, teaching sound recording techniques in the Fredonia School of Music.
In 2017, Fridmann became the director for the Western New York Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, where he plays the bass drum. The group disbanded in 2022.

## Discography
### As producer

| Release year | Album | Artist |
| 1990 | In a Priest Driven Ambulance | The Flaming Lips |
| 1991 | Yerself Is Steam | Mercury Rev |
| 1992 | Hit To Death In The Future Head | The Flaming Lips |
| 1993 | Boces | Mercury Rev |
| 1994 | Syrup Macrame | Radial Spangle |
| 1994 | Chaos For The Converted | Creaming Jesus |
| 1995 | See You on the Other Side | Mercury Rev |
| 1995 | Clouds Taste Metallic | The Flaming Lips |
| 1996 | Revelater | Jennyanykind |
| 1997 | Zaireeka | The Flaming Lips |
| 1997 | Souls For Sale | Verbena |
| 1998 | Deserter's Songs | Mercury Rev |
| 1998 | Eleventh Avenue | Ammonia |
| 1999 | XIV | Home |
| 1999 | The Soft Bulletin | The Flaming Lips |
| 1999 | Hope and Adams | Wheat |
| 1999 | School Girl Distortional Addict | Number Girl |
| 1999 | A Dream in Sound | Elf Power |
| 1999 | Come on Die Young | Mogwai |
| 2000 | The Great Eastern | The Delgados |
| 2000 | Sappukei | Number Girl |
| 2001 | Rock Action | Mogwai |
| 2001 | It's a Wonderful Life | Sparklehorse |
| 2001 | All Is Dream | Mercury Rev |
| 2001 | Without a Plan | Bodega |
| 2002 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | The Flaming Lips |
| 2002 | Num-Heavymetallic | Number Girl |
| 2002 | Romantica | Luna |
| 2002 | Hate | The Delgados |
| 2003 | The Strangest Things | Longwave |
| 2003 | Songs for Dustmites | Steve Burns |
| 2003 | Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second | Wheat |
| 2003 | Night on My Side | Gemma Hayes |
| 2003 | Drveće i rijeke (Trees and Rivers) | Pips, Chips & Videoclips |
| 2003 | Cuatro Caminos | Café Tacuba |
| 2003 | Bad Timing | Grand Mal |
| 2004 | Phantom Planet | Phantom Planet |
| 2005 | The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore | Saxon Shore |
| 2005 | The Woods | Sleater-Kinney |
| 2005 | The Secret Migration | Mercury Rev |
| 2005 | The Great Destroyer | Low |
| 2006 | The Philosophy of Velocity | Brazil |
| 2006 | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain | Sparklehorse |
| 2006 | A City by the Light Divided | Thursday |
| 2006 | At War With The Mystics | The Flaming Lips |
| 2007 | Some Loud Thunder | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| 2007 | Drums and Guns | Low |
| 2007 | Oracular Spectacular | MGMT |
| 2008 | Zazen Boys 4 | Zazen Boys |
| 2008 | Walk It Off | Tapes 'N Tapes |
| 2008 | Snowflake Midnight | Mercury Rev |
| 2008 | Christmas on Mars | The Flaming Lips |
| 2009 | Embryonic | The Flaming Lips |
| 2009 | Eating Us | Black Moth Super Rainbow |
| 2009 | Common Existence | Thursday |
| 2010 | Innerspeaker (mixing) | Tame Impala |
| 2010 | The Wild Trapeze | Brandon Boyd |
| 2010 | Of the Blue Colour of the Sky | OK Go |
| 2011 | Era Extraña | Neon Indian |
| 2011 | 180/365 | OK Go |
| 2011 | Suego Faults | Wolf Gang |
| 2011 | Flux Outside | Royal Bangs |
| 2011 | No Devolución | Thursday |
| 2012 | Lonerism (mixing) | Tame Impala |
| 2012 | Hello Hum | Wintersleep |
| 2012 | In the Belly of the Brazen Bull | The Cribs |
| 2013 | MGMT | MGMT |
| 2013 | The Terror | The Flaming Lips |
| 2014 | They Want My Soul | Spoon |
| 2014 | Only Run | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| 2014 | Hungry Ghosts | OK Go |
| 2014 | Dizzy Heights | Neil Finn |
| 2015 | English Graffiti | The Vaccines |
| 2015 | Permanence | No Devotion |
| 2015 | Purple | Baroness |
| 2017 | Oczy Mlody | The Flaming Lips |
| 2017 | Hot Thoughts | Spoon |
| 2017 | The Tourist | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| 2017 | Every Country's Sun | Mogwai |
| 2017 | Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar | Vetusta Morla |
| 2018 | Little Dark Age | MGMT |
| 2018 | Human Music | Solomon Grey |
| 2018 | Marauder | Interpol |
| 2018 | This Is Eggland | The Lovely Eggs |
| 2019 | Gold & Grey | Baroness |
| 2019 | How To Work A Room | Superet |
| 2020 | I Am Moron | The Lovely Eggs |
| 2020 | Love Is An Art | Vanessa Carlton |
| 2021 | As the Love Continues | Mogwai |
| 2024 | Loss Of Life | MGMT |
| 2024 | GLOOM DIVISION | I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME |
| 2024 | Imaginal Disk (mixing) | Magdalena Bay |
| 2024 | Wild God (mixing) | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |