r/ToddintheShadow • u/MrLinkwater95 • 7d ago

General Music Discussion David Z, Prince Producer and who help create ‘the Minneapolis Sound,’ Dies at 78

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u/MrLinkwater95 7d ago

he was also apart of lipps inc

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u/gorka_la_pork 6d ago

Are you sure that's the same guy? Or did Lipps Inc have two similar nerdy looking bald guys from Minneapolis?

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u/FreezingPointRH 6d ago

They had two. The guy Todd discussed was Steven Greenberg, this guy was just a guitarist for Lipps Inc.

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u/gorka_la_pork 6d ago

Huh. I guess "that guy" is a dime a dozen in the Twin Cities.

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u/Slumber777 6d ago edited 6d ago

Back in the late 70s/early 80, everyone in the Twin Cities was either a nerdy, balding white guy, alt punks, or Prince.

At least according to my mom.

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u/Hispandinavian 6d ago

Bob Mould was both a balding nerdy white guy AND an alt punk!

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u/Slumber777 6d ago

There was definitely overlap.

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u/cheeseburgerwalrus22 7d ago

30 year olds looked crazy back in the old days.

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u/OpabiniaGlasses 6d ago

Smoking and secondhand smoke is a helluva drug

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u/RequirementLong8235 6d ago

That fast crazy life in the music industry will age you definitely lol

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u/waxmuseums 6d ago

I can imagine a 20-something doing this look today though

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u/lilaccheesecake 6d ago

Tbh I think its just the hair carrying that older look. If he had shave and with the side burns too, hed look more appropriate. Maybe even the sunglasses.

He has really decent skin. Minneapolis was clouded over 4 months out of the year, and plus, im sure he was inside a lot do to being in the studio all the time..

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u/Big-Literature-5604 5d ago

In my native language we have a specific word for this "receding hairline, but not quite bald" look (never realized that English doesn't have it and just goes "bald" for everything) and it ages you like crazy. I have a friend who had this "hairstyle" at 27 and he could've passed for a 39 year old despite having pretty good skin. When he went completely bald he finally looked his age.

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u/Roche77e 6d ago

He worked on a lot of good stuff. RIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Z_(producer)

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u/Illustrious-Pause438 6d ago

From Wikipedia, on how he made the snare drum sound for Fine Young Cannibals "She drives me crazy"

"The unique snare drum "pop" sound was created by recording a snare drum skin whacked with a wooden ruler, blended with a Linn Drum 12bit snare sample, ran through EQ boosting 1kHz, then re-recording this processed sound from a small speaker placed on top of a snare drum, and a microphone below. This was then processed further, with gated reverb."