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Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history
This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templemans remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the 70s and 80s. Along the way, Ted details his late 60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the life-altering moment that launched his career as a producer: his discovery of the Doobie Brothers.
Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producers Life in Music takes us into the studio sessions of No. 1 hits like Black Water by the Doobie Brothers and Jump by Van Halen, as Ted recounts memories and the behind-the-scene dramas that engulfed both massively successful acts. Throughout, Ted also reveals the inner workings of his professional and personal relationships with some of the most talented and successful recording artists in history, including Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Lowell George, Sammy Hagar, Linda Ronstadt, David Lee Roth, and Carly Simon.
Templeman is a world-famous producer, known for working with Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, and Joan Jett. This book recounts Templemans remarkable life: from childhood as a 50s jazz phenom in Santa Cruz to the pinnacle of music industry success during the 70s and 80s as a Grammy-winning music executive.
Ted Templeman is an award-winning music producer who discovered Van Halen and The Doobie Brothers. Greg Renoff was born in the Bronx, grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the author of Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal. His writing has appeared in Guitar World, LA Weekly, and Vulture, and he and his work have been profiled in Salon, Maxim, and the Boston Herald.
What gave me pause about Jump was my instinctive sense of what defined the Van Halen sound. When I produce an artist, I get a feel for what will likely work -- and not work -- on an album, especially when youve done five with them.
To me, Van Halen wasnt a pop group. Yes, theyd done Dance the Night Away and Pretty Woman, but that was as far afield from their raucous, primitive nature that I wanted them to go. Jump was way too pop to my ears. I wanted them to stay edgy and raw.
As I tried to explain to Ed and the guys, it wasnt that I was anti-keyboards. Remember, I was completely fucking knocked out when Ed played me the piano riff for Cradle at Sunset Sound. Ed had played keyboards on Dancing in the Street. I know it sounds like an odd comparison, but the Jump riff didnt sound like Eds Aint Talkin bout Love riff. Thats the stomping, powerful sound that I thought they should have kept pursuing. Even though Diver Down served its purposes, it was too pop for me. I liked the Fair Warning stuff better. I thought these guys should stay right in that pocket, and not go pop. To me, Van Halen doing Jump seemed analogous to Keith Richards pushing for the Stones to record something sappy like Youve Got a Lovely Daughter by Hermans Hermits right after theyd done Brown Sugar.
The other point I tried to get across that day was about Eds guitar playing. I think Ed recalls this debate as Dave and I wanting to keep him locked into guitar hero mode for the sake of his image. I cant speak for Dave, but that wasnt where I was coming from. His image had nothing to do with my view. Heres the thing. Eds a guitar genius. No one has ever played or ever will play the way that he did on electric guitar. You immediately knew it was him playing something, and he had profound things

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Ted Templeman A Platinum Producers Life in Music Ted Templeman as told to Greg - photo 1

Ted Templeman

A Platinum Producers Life in Music

Ted Templeman
as told to Greg Renoff

Contents Chapter 1 Pacific Chapter 2 Jazzbo Chapter 3 Feelin Groovy - photo 2
Contents

Chapter 1
Pacific

Chapter 2
Jazzbo

Chapter 3
Feelin Groovy

Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Glass

Chapter 5
Wild Night

Chapter 6
Listen to the Music

Chapter 7
Takin It to the Streets

Chapter 8
Aint Talkin Bout Love

Chapter 9
Lotta Love

Chapter 10
What a Fool Believes

Chapter 11
And the Cradle Will Rock...

Chapter 12
Jump

Chapter 13
Split

Chapter 14
Back to 5150

Chapter 15
It Keeps You Runnin

Chapter 16
Brothers

The members of Van Halen and I receive gold record awards for Van Halen II in - photo 3

The members of Van Halen and I receive gold record awards for Van Halen II in the office of Warner Bros. Records head Mo Ostin, summer 1979 (from left to right): Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, me, Edward Van Halen, Mo Ostin, and Alex Van Halen.

Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group company.

For my children,
Teddy and McCormick Templeman

Many people helped bring this book to fruition. Donn Landee generously shared his memories and his unpublished photographs. Dick Scoppettone and Ed James, Teds bandmates in Harpers Bizarre, clarified a number of obscure points in the bands history. Mike Wilson and his archival staff at WEA uncovered many key images and documents related to Teds career. Vain Eudes conjured up a beautiful cover concept, Shane Brown snapped a great headshot of me, and Jeremy Steffen color corrected and repaired many of the images that appear in this book. For their unwavering support of this project, thank you to Jeffrey Curran, Bob Diforio, Andy Harris, Jeff Hausman of the Van Halen News Desk, Rob Heinrich, Jeff Hendrickson, Brian Kehew, Jan Velasco Kosharek, Chris McLernon, David Schnittger, Gita Varaprasathan, Matt Wake, and Matt Wardlaw. Ted and I also appreciate the efforts of the ECW Press team, particularly Jessica Albert, Susannah Ames, Jack David, Michael Holmes, and Laura Pastore. Lastly, thank you to Teds colleagues at WEA and to all the engineers, session musicians, and artists who worked alongside Ted in the studio so everyone else could listen to the music.

Greg Renoff

Chapter 1
Pacific

Lots of people are named after relatives, but its a funny thing when your parents arent sure if that person is living or dead when youre born. You see, my parents, Robert and Evelyn, named me after my fathers younger brother, Edward J. Ted Templeman. As I grew up, my parents explained to me how I became his namesake. And in turn, my uncle Ted would give me glimpses into the hellish ordeal he experienced during the Second World War.

Like me, my uncle Ted was a Santa Cruz boy. He was the youngest of three brothers. His oldest brother, Ken; my dad, Robert; and Ted all were really close, and they all joined the military during the war years. Ted, in fact, quit school in the eleventh grade and enlisted in the Navy on Independence Day, 1940. I think the three of them felt inspired to serve their country because theyd emigrated from Canada just a few years earlier.

After my uncle Ted completed boot camp in September 1940, hed serve on a heavy cruiser, the USS Houston, which, in late 1941, was stationed in the Philippines.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Navy brass ordered the Houston to sail for the Dutch East Indies. Good thing too, because the Japanese almost immediately launched an overwhelming air assault on the Philippines.

After holding her own in some smaller engagements, the Houstons luck ran out in late February 1942. During the Battle of Sunda Strait, a larger Japanese naval force attacked her and a number of other Allied ships in the waters just north of Java.

My uncle and his crewmates fought like hell but their ship was torpedoed and set aflame by naval gunfire. The Houston proceeded to keel over and sink. My uncle didnt like talking about his wartime experiences, but he told me what haunted him for the rest of his days was watching, helplessly, as scores of his shipmates burned to death. More than half the crew died when the Houston sank in the early morning of March 1.

My uncle Ted, along with eighteen other survivors, huddled in the darkness, hanging onto wreckage and each other in the rolling seas. Shortly after daybreak, a Japanese barge happened upon them; its crew then pulled them from the water. After having them strip-searched, the ranking Japanese officer had second thoughts about taking them prisoner. He suddenly ordered them back into the sea at gunpoint. Most of the guys didnt even have time to grab their life jackets. But the Japanese did show some mercy, giving them a small raft to transport the guys too injured to keep swimming. My uncle was one of the men who treaded water and hung onto the raft.

Adrift again, a few hours later the group encountered a sailboat manned by local fishermen sympathetic to the Allied cause. They threw the exhausted sailors a line and towed them to the Java shoreline.

After resting on the beach, my uncle and his party plunged into the jungle, hoping to link up with the Dutch forces that they knew were operating on the island. That plan came to grief when a group of armed Javanese allied with the enemy captured them and handed them over to the Japanese. My uncle Ted was a prisoner of war. He was nineteen years old.

My uncle Edward J Templeman 1941 He spent almost all of World War Two as a - photo 4

My uncle, Edward J. Templeman, 1941. He spent almost all of World War Two as a prisoner of war after he survived the March 1942 sinking of the USS Houston.

Greg Renoff Collection.

About two weeks after the battle, the terrible news about the Houstons fate reached the States. Around the same time, the Navy sent Teds parents (my grandparents), Earl and Minnie, a telegram telling them that their son, along with every other member of the ships crew, was now considered missing in action. His parents, my mother (who was already pregnant with me) and father, and the rest of the extended family prayed for a miracle but feared the worst.

Much happier news came on October 24, 1942, when I was born in Santa Cruz. (Years later, Carl Scott, who managed my band Harpers Bizarre, changed my birthdate and those of my bandmates to later years because he wanted us to appear younger to our fans, so websites like Wikipedia often give my birthday as 1944.) Like my uncle, I would be called Ted, despite the name Edward J. Templeman II appearing on my birth certificate. My mom and dad later told me they named me after him because deep in their hearts they thought he was dead.


In later years my uncle would tell me about what he endured in captivity. For the first few weeks he and the other Houston survivors were held in camps in Java. The Japanese didnt tend to their wounds and underfed them. He told me beatings were a daily occurrence.

In October 1942 the Japanese moved him and a number of other Americans to Singapore and then eventually to Burma. The Japanese forced prisoners at my uncles camp to work on the infamous Burma Railway project, laying railroad line through the jungle. Before dawn each day their guards would herd them along a path from their camp to construction sites, where theyd toil until night fell. Theyd then stagger back, dead tired, to their camp, with their guards forcing the feeblest of the prisoners to keep pace with the others. My uncle confided in me about one event during those marches that particularly traumatized him. A little girl came alongside the line of prisoners and started walking near him. Out of sympathy she handed a piece of bread to the man in line in front of my uncle. A guard, without flinching, then shot her in the head.

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