Budda Press Release

The Man With The Golden Ears!

In the course of a production and engineering career that has spanned 30 years, Kramer has been behind the boards for the biggest names in music - The Rolling Stones, Traffic, Peter Frampton, Johnny Winter, David Bowie, The Beatles and Bad Company, just to name a few. But he is perhaps best known for three long-term associations in which he not only helped create some of the most important music of the rock era, but also set standards for rock production that set him aside as a true innovator. His work with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Kiss produced music which continues to influence rock musicians and producers today. His association with Hendrix was the most powerful one, and the one that lasted the longest. Kramer engineered every Hendrix album from "Are You Experienced" to "Cry of Love," and after Hendrix's death co-produced the posthumous releases "War Heroes," "Rainbow Bridge" and "Hendrix in the West."

Soon afterwards, Kramer was recruited to record the Woodstock festival for both the album and the movie. Woodstock established Kramer as one of the most important live music producers of the rock era, starting a series of artists recorded live which would ultimately include Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, John Mayall, The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, David Bowie, Derek and The Dominoes and others. In addition to producing "Rock and Roll Over," "Love Gun," "Alive II" and "Double Platinum" for Kiss, Kramer worked on Ace Frehley's first solo record, Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" (the album and the movie), Peter Frampton's historic "Comes Alive" LP, and The Rolling Stones "Love Ya Live," three of the most popular live albums of the rock era. Kramer kicked off the 80's producing bands like Fastway and his work with Anthrax on "Among The Living" and "I'm The Man" helped them cross-over to a more mainstream rock audience, and helped ignite a career that has sold over seven million records.

Eddie produced the Hendrix tribute album, "Stone Free," for Warner Bros., which features tracks from artists such as: The Cure, Eric Clapton, The Spin Doctors, Buddy Guy, Seal/Jeff Beck, Slash/Paul Rodgers, P.M. Dawn, Body Count/Ice Tea. The album has to date generated approximately $1,000,000 in charitable funds which have been donated in Jimi Hendrix's name to the United Negro College Fund as musical scholarships to The Berklee School of Music, The Julliard School of Music and The Dance Theatre of Harlem, etc. Eddie continues to work with the Hendrix family on new albums - film and video projects.

During 2002/2003 Eddie has been working with Kyle Cook (the lead guitarist for Matchbox 20 and Budda endorsee) on a solo project called "The New Left." Also, Kyle Cook created a suite of film music involving a 60-piece orchestra which Eddie produced and engineered.

Eddie met a band from Norway, "Hangface" at South by Southwest in 2002 and brought them to the U.S. to record their debut album at N.R.G. Studios in Los Angeles. This is where Eddie first heard the Budda Superdrive 80 and immediately fell in love with the tone. We are honored to be working with Eddie and look forward to spreading theword of Budda tone through our affiliation. For more info contact Scot Sier at scots@budda.com