Peter Gregg (musician)

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Peter Gregg

This article is about Peter Gregg the musician. For the race car driver and car dealer see Peter H. Gregg.

Peter Gregg (born March 6, 1951, Kent, Ohio) is a producer and musician. Gregg played lead guitar on the earliest recordings of the prototype predecessor to the musical group Devo, under his nom de guitar, Coupe de Ville. In 1971, Gregg, along with Devo co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis recorded three songs: I Been Refused, I Need A Chick and Auto Mowdown on primitive recording equipment located over Guido's Pizza Shop in Kent, Ohio.

Gregg later worked as an engineer at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angelesas a cameraman for Merv Griffin Productions at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, at MTV in New York City, as a technical director for WWE, and produced "CAROCOL: The Last Maya City" for PBS.