Dave Fortman
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Born | Orlando, Florida, U.S. | July 11, 1967
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Years active | 1989–present |
Member of | Ugly Kid Joe |
Website | davefortman |
Dave Fortman (born July 11, 1967) is an American record producer and musician. He is the guitarist for rock band
Early years
Fortman was born in Orlando, Florida. His mother Marge Ann Singleton Fortman was a kindergarten teacher and his father Jon Richey Fortman a retired biology professor. In Covington, Louisiana, he was a trumpet player in marching band for junior high school. He joined with two other musicians John Licali and John McNeely in 1984 to form the band SX while in high school. In 1990, the band relocated to Los Angeles to search for a record deal leading to Fortman joining the band Sugartooth in the same year.
Through Sugartooth's lawyer Dennis Rider who was then Ugly Kid Joe's manager, Fortman met Ugly Kid Joe frontman Whitfield Crane and guitarist Klaus Eichstadt.
Ugly Kid Joe
Fortman joined Ugly Kid Joe in 1992 and played guitar on their multi-platinum-selling album America's Least Wanted. He also wrote the song "Busy Bee". Fortman played and wrote with Ugly Kid Joe until their demise in 1997, including multiple songwriting credits on the albums Menace to Sobriety and Motel California.
After the band reformed in 2011, Fortman played guitar and produced their most recent EP Stairway to Hell in 2012 as well as their full-length album Uglier Than They Used ta Be in 2015.[1]
In the summer of 2017, Fortman rejoined Ugly Kid Joe on the road for their European tour for the first time since 1997. During the tour, he performed with
Production career
Following the demise of Ugly Kid Joe in 1997, Fortman relocated back to
In March 2003, Evanescence's album
In late 2007, Fortman was hired to produce Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone, which upon its release in 2009 spawned five singles, including "Snuff" and "Psychosocial". The album went on to sell over 1 million copies in the US and over 2 million worldwide. In late 2009, Fortman was reunited with Ugly Kid Joe drummer Shannon Larkin, now drummer of Godsmack, when he was hired to produce Godsmack's record The Oracle. The album was certified gold in 2011.
Fortman reunited with Godsmack in 2014 for the follow-up album 1000 HP as well as producing vocals and mixing Godsmack frontman Sully Erna's solo album entitled Hometown Life in 2016.
Selected discography
Year | Artist | Album | Role |
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2001 | Crowbar | Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form | Producer |
2003 | Boysetsfire | Tomorrow Come Today | Producer |
Evanescence | Fallen | Producer | |
2005 | Mudvayne | Lost and Found | Producer |
2006 | Evanescence | The Open Door | Producer |
2008 | Mudvayne | The New Game | Producer |
Slipknot | All Hope Is Gone | Producer | |
Simple Plan | Simple Plan | Producer | |
2010 | Godsmack | The Oracle | Producer |
2014 | Godsmack | 1000HP | Producer |
2023 | Godsmack | Lighting Up the Sky | Mixer |
References
- ^ "Ugly Kid Joe announce comeback album 'Uglier Than They Used Ta Be'". NME. September 3, 2015.
- ^ "Watch Evanescence's Amy Lee join Ugly Kid Joe on stage to belt out 'Cat's In The Cradle'". June 20, 2017.
- ^ "Ugly Kid Joe". facebook.com.
- ^ Staff, Creative Planet Network (October 17, 2008). "BALANCE STUDIOS EXPAND IN NEW ORLEANS". Mixonline.
- ^ Matthews, Bunny (November 2003). "Paul McCoy of 12 Stones". OffBeat Magazine.
- ^ "MUDVAYNE's 'Lost And Found' Enters BILLBOARD Chart At No. 2!". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. April 20, 2005.