Ric Browde

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Ric Browde (1954- )was involved in the emergence of the Los Angeles glam music scene in the mid 1980s. He produced, wrote and is rumoured to have performed on Poison's multi-platinum debut album Look What the Car Dragged In, which unexpectedly took America by storm in 1987, and then followed it up by producing Faster Pussycat's well received debut album in 1988 and co-writing and co-producing Joan Jett's return to commercial success "Up Your Alley". Browde later produced LA Glamsters Jetboy, English girl group No Shame, LA's Kill For Thrills and Flies on Fire, the spectacularly underrated English band, the Dogs D'Amour, Finland's junkie/guitar hero Andy McCoy, the former lead guitarist of Hanoi Rocks. In addition to his production chores Browde had a keen eye for spotting talent and he signed and produced the original recordings for the legendary British band, the Wildhearts, and the American shock band, WASP. In the seventies Browde produced several platinum albums for renowned right wing gun-toting guitarist, Ted Nugent, despite them mutually hating each other. Browde made a career change with his critically acclaimed debut satirical novel, "While I'm Dead...Feed the Dog" in 1999, Translated into several languages Browde's cult classic is currently being made into a movie by producer Andrew Lazar.

In 2006, Browde inspired the album title 'More Boring Than Poison' by British 'brutal techno punk' band, Kierononononon^on, after he unexpectedly sent them a single word review that stated "boring.".