Sylvia Massy
| Sylvia Massy | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Sylvia Lenore Massy |
| Born | Flint, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Audio engineer, record producer, author |
| Instruments | Singer, drummer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Website | www |
Sylvia Massy is an American entrepreneur, music producer, mixer and engineer, author and artist in the United States. Massy is perhaps best recognized for her work on 1993's Undertow, the full-length double platinum-selling debut for Los Angeles alternative metal band Tool and her works with System of a Down,Johnny Cash and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Massy's first project was in the mid-1980s as producer, engineer, and mixer for a compilation album titled Rat Music for Rat People, Vol. 3 on the CD Presents label. Acts featured included Adolescents, Raw Power, Doggy Style and Mojo Nixon. She followed this with producing the punk band Verbal Abuse for Boner Records, engineering two projects for metal band Exodus and co-producing the Sea Hags independent album with a young guitarist Kirk Hammett, who had just finished the "Master Of Puppets" album with thrash metal group Metallica. She also produced "Television, Drug Of A Nation" by Beatnigs, the former band of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's Michael Franti.
Towards the end of the 1980s, Massy moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and worked at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. At Tower she met the members of a Buffalo, New York band named Green Jello (later known as Green Jelly) and recorded their debut independent album. After becoming a staff engineer at Larrabee Sound in West Hollywood, she was hired by Zoo Records/BMG to produce Green Jello's major label debut album, which featured members of a new Los Angeles group called Tool. On Green Jello's "Cereal Killer" album, the voice of Tool singer Maynard James Keenan is heard on the song "Three Little Pigs", as well as Tool drummer Danny Carey playing on the album. This began a relationship Massy would have with the band Tool that would span two records: Opiate and Undertow.
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