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 Poison's multi-platinum debut album Look What the Car Dragged In, which unexpectedly took America by storm in 1987. Browde followed his success with Poison by producing Faster Pussycat's debut album in 1988 and co-writing and co-producing Joan Jett's return to commercial success "Up Your Alley". Browde later produced a series of widely ignored albums, including LA Glamsters Jetboy, English girl group No Shame, LA's Kill For Thrills and Flies on Fire, whose debut album measures up to the best work put out by the Rolling Stones during the 80s, the spectacularly underrated English band, the Dogs D'Amour, Finland's junkie/guitar hero Andy McCoy, the former lead guitarist of Hanoi Rocks. In the seventies Browde produced several platinum albums for renowned right wing gun-toting guitarist, Ted Nugent, despite them mutually hating each other. After his record sales dwindled Browde made a career change with his satirical novel "While I'm Dead...Feed the Dog" in 1999. Translated into several languages the book is currently being made into a movie by 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.".