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Scott Mathews
Scott Mathews Inside TikiTown
Born (1955-07-25) July 25, 1955 (age 69)
Sacramento, California, United States
Occupation(s)Music Producer, Musician, Music Executive
SpouseKolleen Mathews
Children2
Websitescottmathews.com

Scott Mathews (born July 25, 1955) is an American musician and producer. He has several gold and platinum record awards for sales of more than 20 million units. He has produced Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Sammy Hagar, Roseanne Cash, Jerry Garcia, Huey Lewis and many others. He has recorded with a diversity of artists from Barbra Streisand to John Lee Hooker, including Keith Richards, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton. He has worked with more than 70 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and on several Grammy and Oscar Award winning releases. He is a member of the band Dūrocs and founder of Hit or Myth Productions.

Career

Mathews began his professional music career at a very young age. When he was 15 he had his first break playing with American blues musician Elvin Bishop at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. At this time He also met Steve Perry and briefly formed a band called Ice. They traveled to LA and recorded material at The Record Plant but unfortunately none of it was released and the project was abandoned.

Mathews would return to home to finish high school and continue on as a burgeoning session musician working between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1973 Mathews met future long-time collaborator Ron Nagle. Nagle was already an established recording musician for Warner Brothers and a member of the The Mystery Trend. Mathews and Nagle teamed up and began to write and record material. Nagle's producer from his previous solo record, Jack Nitzsche, heard some of this material and hired them to work on film score projects. By composing, performing and producing under Nitzsche, Mathews worked on the soundtrack for the multiple Oscar winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Mathews' first film soundtrack) and for artists such as Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand, Ry Cooder and Dr. John. Mathews and Nagle's sound design for Cat People was used on the soundtrack recording featuring David Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughan and spawned a surprise hit single. Mathews also played drums, dobro and helped choose the material for Glen Campbell's Southern Nights platinum album.

Mathews and Nagle continued to write songs and produce records for artists from many different major labels, including A&M and Capitol Records. In 1977 they had the opportunity to write songs for Barbara Streisand's multi-platinum CBS Records release, Streisand Superman as well as The Tubes.

As an actor, Mathews starred as Fluke Starbucker in the 1978 Star Wars parody, Hardware Wars. For decades, the short film was the most profitable short film in history - costing less than fifteen thousand dollars to make while grossing millions of dollars in revenue.

Following Mathews work with A&M artists the label approached him and Nagle to build a band. Nagle and Mathews, funded by A&M Records, wrote and produced material under the name Dūrocs. The project ended up signing with Capital Records. Originally labeled as New Wave and Power Pop, Dūrocs wrote material that was more diverse and explored Mathews and Nagle's interests in the styles of The Brill Building, Leiber and Stoller and Phil Spector. Their 1979 self-titled album received 5 stars from Rolling Stone Magazine reviews.

The Dūrocs project caught the attention of Carl Wilson who invited Mathews to play with The Beach Boys in the studio and even become a potential member. He eventually became known as the fifth Beach Boy after his consistent behind the scenes work Brian Wilson and the group while Dennis Wilson was inactive. Mathews declined actively touring citing his aversion but did perform with them on a number of occasions. Over the years Mathews continued to work on and off with the group as a session musician and music director.

In the beginning of the 1980s, Mathews and Nagle officially founded their private recording studio called The Pig Pen on the top of Bernal Heights, in San Francisco. Outside of The Pen between 1976 and 2001 Mathews performed with, composed, and/or produced for artists such as George Harrison, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, BB King, Neil Young, Labelle, Nick Lowe, John Lee Hooker, Roy Orbison, Huey Lewis, John Fogerty, Sammy Hagar, Elvis Costello, Ringo Starr, Bobby Womack, Eric Clapton, Steve Miller, Ry Cooder, Joe Walsh, and David Bowie. Mathews produced multiple artists for albums such as John Hiatt, Riding with the King (title song of which was based on a dream Mathews had), Elvis Costello & Jerry Garcia, Sweetwater, John Lee Hooker, Jealous, Dick Dale, Tribal Thunder and NRBQ, Message for a Mess Age. Mathews and Nagle co-wrote the 1990 Dave Edmunds hit, Closer to the Flame. Towards the end of the eighties, Mathews recorded extensively and performed live with friend and colleague, Todd Rundgren. Mathews was a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist on both the Nearly Human album and world tour, the Second Wind album and tour and several other Rundgren recordings and video releases.

In 1991 Mathews moved to Marin County and founded Hit or Myth Productions. Using his experience from the corporate music industry and under the aegis of Hit or Myth Productions Mathews started an independent recording studio called Tikitown. Tikitown was built on the water's edge of San Francisco Bay, with the philosophy that beautiful views, intimacy and comfort would provide artists with an environment to focus and create their best artistic output.

In 1993 Mathews and music journalist Joel Selvin met with Dick Dale in Twenty-nine Palms, CA. Their meeting convinced Dale to come out of retirement and record with Mathews. They recorded several albums throughout the nineties as Dale experienced a renewed interest and success in his music career.

Throughout the nineties Mathews was actively engaged with a variety of artists while fine tuning his studio arrangement. In his Marin studio in 1997 Mathews collaborated with Huey Lewis on songs for the soundtrack of Wag the Dog. In 1996 while working with Booker T. Jones he met his future chief engineer Tom Luekens.

On January 28, 2007 Mathews encored with Brian Wilson and Al Jardine at the final Pet Sounds performance at the Paramount Theater in Oakland.

In December 2011, Mathews signed on as executive producer with the Hong Kong based, Far West Entertainment. Less than two months after Mathews produced the #1 Billboard track "Dance On" with Pan Asian girl group Blush.

On May 22, 2012, after nearly a year in negotiations with Capitol Records, Real Gone Music released the original Dūrocs record on CD and downloads. Along with the original LP are eight previously unheard Dūrocs 'bone-us' tracks, all recorded shortly after the Capitol release.

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