Brendan O'Brien is a record producer who worked with many bands including Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, King's X, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Aerosmith, The Wallflowers, Matthew Sweet, Limp Bizkit, Lifehouse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, The Black Crowes, Aimee Mann, Bruce Springsteen, The Offspring, Incubus and Soundgarden. He is generally thought of as one of the most important music producers of the 1990s. In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Pearl Jam was one of the most popular bands of the grunge music era in the early 1990s. ... Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) is a popular grunge band, formed in 1990, after Scott Weiland and Robert DeLeo met at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California, after discovering they were dating the same woman. ... Kings X is a soulful heavy metal band that has its beginnings in 1980 in Springfield, Missouri as The Edge, performing mostly cover tunes in the Missouri bar and club circuit. ... Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ... Neil Young with guitar (from the 1991 Weld tour) Neil Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian musician and filmmaker. ... Arrowsmith is a 1925 book by Sinclair Lewis. ... The Wallflowers formed in 1990, in Los Angeles, California. ... Matthew Sweet (born c. ... Limp Bizkit is an American nu metal band. ... Lifehouse is a melodic rock band from the United States, popular with mainstream and Contemporary Christian Music audiences. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers (from left): Flea, Chad Smith, John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Californian rock band who have combined aspects of funk and hip-hop with rock and roll, pioneering funk metal. ... KoЯn is a nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, United States. ... A photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who burnt himself to death as a protest against Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diems administrations practices against the Buddhist religion, features on the cover of the first Rage Against the Machine album. ... The Black Crowes are a taper-friendly rock and roll jam band, formed in 1985 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bass player, singer, and songwriter. ... Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. ... The Offspring - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The type of demon called Incubus The Funk metal band called Incubus The Goth metal band called Inkubus Sukkubus The movie called Incubus. ... Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band instrumental in creating the sound that came to be called grunge. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...

Brendan O'Brien is a senior Irish journalist on RTÉ's Prime Time current affairs programme. A journalist is a person engaged in the profession of journalism. ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; English: Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ... Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Same-sex marriage in Canada) • Tsunami relief Deaths in February • 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma • 4 – Ossie Davis • 3 – Ernst Mayr • 3 – Zurab Zhvania • 2 – Max Schmeling Recent deaths Ongoing armed conflicts • Arab-Israeli conflict • Conflict in Chechnya • Second Congo War • Conflict in Iraq...

Brendan O'Brien is a freelance journalist in the United States.