Gary Smith, the producer who owned legendary Boston studio Fort Apache Studios and worked on records by the Pixies, Throwing Muses, Billy Bragg, Blake Babies and more, has died following a short illness.

Among the albums Gary produced: Pixies' first EP, Come on Pilgrim, Throwing Muses' House Tornado, Blake Babies' Earwig and Sunburn, The Chills' Submarine Bells, The Connells' , and The Feelies' Time for a Witness, and he also worked on records by Billy Bragg, Scrawl, 10,000 Maniacs, and more.

Records recorded at Fort Apache, at least partially, include Radiohead's Pablo Honey, Weezer's Pinkerton, Superdrag's Regretfully Yours, Uncle Tupelo's No Dpression, Dinosaur Jr's Bug and Green Mind, Lemonheads' Lovey, Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Let's Face It (and more), Morphine's Cure for Pain, Buffalo Tom's first three albums, Sebadoh's III (and more)

Artist: Blake Babies
Album: Earwig
Song: "Cesspool"
1989 Mammoth Records




Artist: Blake Babies
Album: Sunburn
Song: "Star"
1990 Mammoth Records