Abe Kesh

Abe "Voco" Kesh (b. Abe Keshishian, 1933 — July 3, 1989) was a San Francisco-based disc jockey and record producer. He is best-known for discovering the seminal hard rock band Blue Cheer, and for producing their first two albums, Vincebus Eruptum and Outsideinside. He also produced the band's 1968 Top 10 cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues."

He was born in Detroit, and died at the Marin Hotel in San Rafael, where he lived the final 14 years of his life.

Besides Blue Cheer, Kesh produced albums by Harvey Mandel, Graham Bond, Morning Glory, Linn County, Don Robertson, and others. He produced recordings for a number of labels, including Mercury, Philips, Fontana, Blue Thumb, Pulsar, and Janus.

Kesh produced Chuck Berry's Live at the Fillmore Auditorium after Berry's release from jail in 1967. Steve Miller was part of Berry's band, and recalled that during rehearsals, "All of a sudden, Mercury Records says, 'This is great. We want to make a live album.' And a deal was struck that afternoon the day we were going to do the show. They brought in this funky little board to record it on. All of a sudden, this guy Abe Kesh shows up, who was the producer for Mercury. We're rehearsing and all ready to go when he takes Chuck Berry outside for 10 minutes before the show. Chuck comes back in and he's almost unconscious, like he's in slow motion. They went out and had a shot or something. We did four sets and we recorded the album. It came out pretty good."

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