Spot, who has died aged 71, went from rollerskating jazz head to in-house producer for SST Records, home to Black Flag, Hüsker Dü and more – and defined the expansive sound of US punk
hen Glen “Spot” Lockett pointed his camera at something, he intended to capture what was there, not what he wanted you to see. “I paid attention to my subjects and what they were doing,” he told Vice in 2014 while discussing Sounds of Two Eyes Opening, a book collecting his work.
Spot, who died aged 71 on March 4, was inducted into the febrile world of hardcore after a chance encounter. In the mid-1970s he was a jazz head who rollerskated and wrote record reviews for the local paper on the side while working in a vegetarian restaurant. Here he met Greg Ginn. “He was just an awkward nerd who was very opinionated,” Spot said in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life. “Couldn’t imagine him ever being in a band.
But he was in a band. Ginn was the mastermind behind Black Flag and, eventually, SST alongside co-owner Joe Carducci. Spot soon began helping out as an assistant engineer at Media Arts, a nearby studio, and Ginn joined the dots by asking him to record his band. What came next changed the course of American music, with Spot’s pursuit of honest, trickery-free takes meshing with minuscule budgets and the visceral fury of hardcore. Here are 10 of his most vital production jobs.
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