South Bay punk pioneers gather to honor producer Spot
by Ryan McDonald When Wyn Davis thinks of Spot, what comes to mind is a man roaring down Pier Avenue on roller skates, the nominal safety bestowed by knee and elbow pads rendered irrelevant by the loss of peripheral vision from the camera he held tightly to his face. Davis is an owner and founder of Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, where now-legendary albums like the Descendents’ “Milo Goes to College” and Hüsker Dü’s “Zen Arcade” were recorded, and on which Spot served as producer and engineer. For Davis, the image of Spot on roller skates suggests the attitude he brought into the recording studio: taking music that was so deliberately different from the sounds that dominated the airwaves of the late ‘70s and ‘80s and letting those differences shine through. “He was fearless,” Davis said. Spot, real name Glenn Lockett, served as the producer and engineer on many of the most notable punk records to ever come out of the South Bay. He died earlier this year in Wisconsin, where he had been living, of pulmonary fibrosis. On a recent Saturday, on what would have been his 72nd birthday, some of Spot’s many friends gathered at Total Access to celebrate the life of a person they…
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