Right now there are three people working at Flying Blanket. They are:
Bob Hoag - founder and co-owner. I opened Flying Blanket about nine years ago in a crummy industrial park and battled motorcycles, mean cat-hating neighbors, and combative hobos to make some really special records (well, in my opinion, anyway). I produce and generally engineer most of the records I produce. I have made records for Joel Plaskett, Dear and the Headlights, The Format, Runaway Diamonds, Adam Panic, Minibosses, Fine China, The Breakup Society, Limbeck, JD Stooks, Awake and Alert, The Loveblisters, Hour of the Wolf, Miles Kurosky, Versus the Mirror, The Bled, The Ruby Lee, Sugar High, The Go Reflex, Pollen, Recover, the Impossibles, Before Braille, Life in Pictures, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, the Aeffect, Mercy Fall, Telescope, the Heartless, Until August, Art For Starters, Bella, Tickertape Parade, the Letterpress, Little Compass, Mourning Maxwell, and many others. I also sing and play piano in my own band, The Go Reflex, as well as drums for The Breakup Society. I am also a wicked tambourine player.
Chuckie Duff - co-owner and bass player. I met Bob when I started my record label, Common Wall Media. He helped me mix and pre-master The Reflection "Heaventown" and he produced and engineered Fine China "The Jaws of Life". During our time working on these two records, we decided to go into business together and build a new recording studio. In over two years dealing with architects, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, contractors, electricians, historic committees, building inspectors, studio designers, landscapers and more, I have learned a lot the hard and slow way, but I'm more confident than ever in the outcome of our efforts. And in the meantime, Bob recorded my band's debut LP, Dear and the Headlights "Small Steps, Heavy Hooves", which was another experience that reinforced my belief in Bob's amazing ear for making records (and it landed us a record deal with Equal Vision Records). I am excited to see the new studio completed in the coming months, and I am very excited to hear the new records that will come out of it. Oh, and if you need some SHL bass tracks, be sure to ask if I'm available when you book your recording time.
Marcus Howard - studio manager and engineer. I was a music nerd, at a time when such a social standing was not a good thing - school. I made music with stuff you hit. I got pretty good. I went off to college and played more of it. I started playing more instruments. I came back home. I started writing music. I started recording music in my bedroom. I got better. I started working at a small local studio. I got better. I remixed/reworked some Radiohead stuff that got a bunch of quick attention. I got a huge confidence boost and started to realize I could probably do this stuff for a living.....so I did. I'm a realist who thinks optimistically. Dreams are cool, but seeing them become reality is way better. I like 24" bass drums, notebooks and calculators, and have a love/hate relationship with OCD ("that 3 seconds of music is the most awesome thing ever. Let me listen to that on repeat for the next 3 days") .