Eric Valentine

Eric Dodd, known professionally as Eric Valentine, is an American record producer, who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride.
He subsequently produced albums for artists such as Good Charlotte, Lostprophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, The All-American Rejects, Slash.

• T-Ride - T-Ride (drummer/backing vocals/producer/mixing; 1992)
• The Conscious Daughters - Ear to the Street (engineer/instrumentation; 1993)
• Paris - Guerrilla Funk (engineer; 1994)
• Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani (engineer on "Luminous Flesh Giants" and "Look My Way", piano/additional engineering on "Cool #9", bass/keyboards/percussion on "Luminous Flesh Giants"; 1995)
• Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking (producer/mixing/voice actor; 1997)
• Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (programming on "Semi-Charmed Life" and "Motorcycle Drive By", piano on "Thanks a Lot" and "God of Wine", guitar/keyboards/programming on "I Want You", engineer/co-producer/mixing; 1997)
• Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang (keyboards/percussion/groovy noises/engineer/producer/mixing; 1997)
• Braids - Here We Come (arrangements/programming/engineer/producer; 1998)
• Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (drums/percussion/producer on "Psycho Monkey", bass/drums/keyboards/percussion/engineer/producer/mixing on "Time"; 1998)
• Brougham - "I Walked In" (mixing; 1998)
• Vital Information - Where We Come From (mixing; 1998)
• Tom Coster - From the Street (mixing; 1999)
• Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge (additional keyboards/vibraphone/engineer/producer/mixing; 1999)
• Citizen King - Mobile Estates (engineer/producer/mixing; 1999)
• Snake River Conspiracy - Sonic Jihad (producer; 2000)
• Dwarves - Come Clean (engineer/producer/mixing; 2000)
• Deathray - Deathray (synthesizer/keyboards/producer; 2000)
• Smash Mouth - Smash Mouth (writer on "She Turns Me On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2001)
• Scapegoat Wax - Okeeblow (recording/producer/mixing on "Space to Share" and "Perfect Silence", writer on "Perfect Silence"; 2001)
• Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (producer except "The Sky Is Fallin'" and "Do It Again"; 2002)
• Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless (writer on "A New Beginning", string arrangement/engineer/producer/mixing; 2002)
• Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach (producer; 2002)
• Lostprophets - Start Something (engineer/producer/mixing; 2004)
• John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again (mixing/additional parts on "She's Got Baggage"; 2004)
• Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death (writer on "Once Upon a Time: The Battle of Life and Death", string arrangement/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2004)
• Dwarves - The Dwarves Must Die (recording/producer/mixing; 2004)
• Skye Sweetnam - Noise from the Basement (writer on "Number One"; 2004)
• Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die? (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2005)
• Aslyn - Lemon Love (producer on "Be the Girl", "493-1023", "Ain't No Love", and "You Got Me"; 2005)
• Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now (recording/producer/mixing; 2006)
• Smash Mouth - Summer Girl (engineer/producer/mixing on "So Insane", "Story of My Life", and "Right Side, Wrong Bed", drum producer/mixing for "Everyday Superhero", vocal producer for "Quality Control"; 2006)
• Mellowdrone - Box (engineer on "Oh My", "Four Leaf Clover", "Fashionably Uninvited", "Fuck It Man", and "Whatever the Deal"; 2006)
• Persephone's Bees - Notes from the Underworld (drums/mastering/recording/producer/mixing; 2006)
• Aqualung - Memory Man (additional production/mixing; 2007)
• Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd. (producer/mixing on "5 Times Out of 100"; 2007)
• Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long (recording/producer/mixing on "Little of Your Time" and "Can't Stop"; 2007)
• Jesca Hoop - Kismet (additional recording; 2007)
• The All-American Rejects - When the World Comes Down (drum corp/orchestration composer on "Real World", programming/engineer/producer/mixing; 2008)
• Tracy Hamlin - Better Days (instruments/recording/producer on "Free"; 2009)
• Jackiem Joyner - Lil' Man Soul (drums on "Take Me There"; 2009)
• Theo Tams - Give It All Away (writer on "Wait for You"; 2009)
• Slash - Slash (piano on "Ghost", keyboards on "I Hold On", engineer/producer/mixing; 2010)
• Steve Lukather - All's Well That Ends Well (writer on "Tumescent (Instrumental)", drums; 2010)
• Chris Standring - Blue Bolero (drums on "Please Mind the Gap" and "March of the Bowler Hats"; 2011)
• Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday (engineer/producer/mixing; 2011)
• Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Born Again (editor/mastering/recording/mixing; 2011)
• The Wombats - This Modern Glitch (engineer/producer/mixing on "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)" and "1996", vocals on "1996", additional production/recording on "Techno Fan"; 2011)
• Slash - Apocalyptic Love (writer on "No More Heroes", producer; 2012)
• Smash Mouth - Magic (engineer/producer/mixing on "Don't You (Forget About Me)"; 2012)
• Steve Lukather - Transition (drums on "Last Man Standing", "Do I Stand Alone", and "Rest of the World"; 2013)
• Blag Dahlia - "Metrosexual Man" (drums/vocals on "Metrosexual Man", mixing on "Metrosexual Man" and "The Simple Life"; 2013)
• Dwarves - The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll (mastering; 2014)
• Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line (percussion/mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014)
• 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer (mastering/additional production/mixing on "She Looks So Perfect"; 2014)
• The Madden Brothers - Greetings from California (producer on side A; 2014)
• Supersuckers - Get the Hell (mastering; 2014)
• Nightmare and the Cat - Simple (mastering/engineer/producer/mixing; 2014)
• 5 Seconds of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good (mastering/mixing; 2015)
• The Wombats - Glitterbug (recording/producer; 2015)
• Grace Potter - Midnight (producer/mixing; 2015)
• Richard Elliot - Summer Madness (drums; 2016)
• Peter White - Groovin' (drums on "When Will I See You Again"; 2016)
• Good Charlotte - Youth Authority (mixing on "Makeshift Love"; 2016)
• Grace VanderWaal - Perfectly Imperfect (mastering; 2016)