Album Production Information:
The album: "Mary Jane" was produced by: Dave Mustaine and Randy Burns
Dave Mustaine – Vocals, Guitars
Thrash metal’s original grudge match: one guy, one guitar, and enough spite to power Los Angeles for decades.
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Dave Mustaine is the razor-edged singer-guitarist who turned getting fired into a lifelong fuel source. To my ears, the story starts in Panic (late 1970s–1981), where those early riffs already sounded like trouble with a pick. From 1981–1983 he was Metallica’s original lead guitarist and co-writer, shaping key early songs before his April 11, 1983 dismissal. Back in Los Angeles he formed Megadeth in 1983 and has fronted it ever since, steering speed, spite, and precision through decades. Side quests like MD.45 (1996) just prove the volume never really drops.
Michael Wagener - Producer, Mix Engineer
Michael Wagener – Producer, Sound EngineerThe German set of ears that can make a wall of amps sound lethal, not muddy. Read more... Michael Wagener is the German-born producer/engineer who taught heavy guitars to sound huge without turning into soup. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s he helped shape Accept's steel-plate punch, then in the 1980s Los Angeles grind he became a go-to set of ears for Dokken—tight, glossy, and still mean. By the late 1980s he was guiding arena-sized hard rock for Skid Row and White Lion, and in the 1990s he kept that balance of bite and clarity alive for bands like Extreme. I can spot his signature fast: drums snapping, guitars spread wide, and reverb kept on a short leash. From his WireWorld room in Tennessee, he mixes like a craftsman: edges sharp, low end disciplined, vocals sitting just forward enough to start trouble.
Paul Lani - Producer, Sound Engineer
Randy Burns - Producer, Sound Engineer, Musician
Randy Burns – Record Producer & Sound Engineer
He captured thrash when it still sounded dangerous, not "clean."
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Randy Burns is the producer/engineer I trust when metal has to hit hard without turning into mush. I clocked him in 1986 at Music Grinder, co-producing and engineering Megadeth's
"Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?"
with Mustaine: snare like a fist, bass tight, guitars sharp enough to shave with. He makes chaos readable, no fake gloss. His 80s run is a straight line of troublemaking: Suicidal Tendencies (engineer, 1983), Possessed
"Seven Churches"
(producer, 1985), Dark Angel
"Darkness Descends"
(producer/engineer, 1986), Death
"Scream Bloody Gore"
(producer, 1987), Nuclear Assault
"Survive"
(1988) and
"Handle with Care"
(1989), then Kreator "Coma of Souls" (1990).
Tim Carr - Executive Producer
Mark Wilkinson - Cover Art
Pete Cronin - Photography.
Pete Cronin has been a photographer for over 30 years and has photographed rock bands like: Demon Pact, Avenger, Metallica, Exciter, English Dogs, Plasmatics, Briar, Bow Wow, Thin Lizzy, Alice in Chains, Megadeth and others.
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