Ryan Greene

Ryan Greene
Born	United States
Occupation(s)	record producer, recording engineer
Instruments	drums
Website	Official website

Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, former owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, Arizona and founder of Area 52 Entertainment in Los Angeles, California. In an over 25-year-long career he has worked with many artists including Jay-Z, Lita Ford,Tonic, Mr. Big, Wilson Phillips, Megadeth,NOFX,Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Usher,Patty LaBelle, Dishwalla and Gladys Knight. He has worked on over 250 musical projects and has been described as an "A-list producer".

Ryan Greene started his musical career as a drummer in local Los Angeles bands. He became a live engineer at the age of 15. At age 19 he started working at MCA Music Publishing Studio as a tape duplicator. Greene was eventually promoted directly to first engineer. He was the youngest engineer at MCA. While employed by MCA he worked together with people like Glen Ballard, Diane Warren and Desmond Child. From 1988 to 1996, Greene worked at EMI music publishing as chief engineer where he did all the pre-production for Megadeth's best selling album "Countdown to Extinction", released in 1992. It sold over a million copies. This eventually lead Greene to working with Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson's band F5. In 1994, he worked with Brett Gurewitz owner of Epitaph Records and founding member of the punk rock band Bad Religion on a demo recording for Bad Religion.Brett Gurewitz hooked Ryan Greene up with the punk rock band NOFX and he produced their record "Punk in Drublic" the same year. The record sold more than a half million worldwide on its way to being certified gold and became NOFX's best selling record.

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