Doug Wynn picked up the guitar at age ten after finding his mother's Beatles records in a box in the basement. He spent most of his teen years in that same basement writing songs and experimenting with a four track recorder.
In the 90's he fronted a psychedelic rock band on the Boston club circuit while earning a BA in Music Production and Engineering at Berklee. By the time the band broke up, their acoustic sets were drawing standing room only crowds at the Hard Rock Café. Live performance was a rush, but when Doug was offered a job at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, he packed up his guitars and moved back to New York.
Doug paid his dues for two years as a studio rat, learning his craft from some of the finest Producers and Engineers in the business. After honing his skills it was time to apply them. He left the big studio behind and returned to Massachusetts where he is currently finishing his first self produced album of acoustic infused alternative rock.
Bio
I first picked up the guitar at the age of ten after discovering my mother’s copy of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul in a box in the basement. I spent most of my teen years in that same basement writing songs and experimenting with a four track recorder, coming up for air just long enough to wear out U2 and Pink Floyd cassettes in my beat up Ford Mustang on the Long Island Expressway.
Knowing that the only job I was interested in was ‘recording artist,’ I went to Berklee College of Music and spent the nineties fronting a psychedelic metal band on the Boston club circuit in between earning a BA in Music Production and Engineering. By the time the band broke up, our acoustic sets were drawing standing room only crowds at the Hard Rock Café. Live performance was a rush, but when I was offered a job as a second engineer at the legendary Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, I packed up my guitars, books and very little else and moved back to New York.
I spent a couple of years as a studio rat, learning the tricks of the trade from some of the finest Producers and Engineers in the business. After honing my craft working endless hours on other artists’ music, it was time to apply what I had learned to my own songs. I left the big studio behind to spend my nights in a small home studio in the wetlands of Massachusetts where I ‘m currently finishing my first self produced solo album of acoustic infused alternative rock.
Tom Robbins once wrote that using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to carve roast beef. The same is probably true of music. I believe a song should mean something and if I’ve done my job right, I shouldn’t have to tell you what that is. You decide. What I can tell you is that these songs are the sum of a life as shot through with love and sorrow as any. I’ve tried to get out of the way and let them tell the truth. I hope you hear it.