Rick Altizer

Rick Altizer is listed in the credits for the following albums:

• 1987 - Bash 'N The Code - Big Mouth: Producer, Songwriter, Keyboards, Drum Programming, Background Vocals
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Songwriter
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Producer
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Songwriter
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Executive Producer
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Executive Producer
• 1998 - Rick Altizer - Blue Plate Special: Producer
• 2000 - Rick Altizer - Go Nova: Producer, Songwriter, Engineered, Mixed, Mastered, All Instruments, Vocals
• 2000 - Various Artists - compilations - When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos: Producer, Engineer, Mixed, Guitar, Drums, Vocals
• 2004 - PFR - The Bookhouse Recordings: Executive Producer

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Rick Altizer

Rick Altizer is a recording artist and producer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in music as a hopeful trying to break in to the L.A. music scene. Altizer secured a job as a staff writer for Warner/Chappell Music and hired Elliot Roberts, who had worked with Neil Young and countless others, as his manager. Things were looking good, but then a record deal with Sony fell through and Altizer ditched L.A. and took his family to Nashville. Here he hooked up with KMG, a small Christian rock label, and released two records.

1998's Blue Plate Special and 1999's Neon Fixation were Beatles-influenced pop records with a mostly subtle Christian message. Both were produced by Adrian Belew who lent his guitar playing skills as well. Altizer's third album, 2000's Go Nova, was a self-produced album for a smaller label. In 2001, Altizer wrote and produced Soul Lift: Soundtrack For the Soul, a collection of artists like Johnny Cash, Stephen Mason from Jars of Clay, and others singing gospel songs with a techno backing. Also in 2001, Altizer released [All Tie Zer] on the secular pop label Not Lame with Adrian Belew on board again to provide some guitar solos. This album was his most unabashedly pop record and introduced him to a whole new audience of power pop fans. His first three albums were critically acclaimed successes with moderate sales.

Rick developed the children's music line "Worship Jamz". Worship Jamz was the #1 selling Christian children's music CD for 2 1/2 years and the #1 Worship album in the country for 18 months.

His newest release, Scripture Memory - Pop Symphonies, was three years in the making. "It has been a labor of love for me. It was my desire to make a Scripture Memory record that you would actually enjoy listening to. I decided to do my best to make an excellent record in hopes that you would listen to it multiple times. After repeated listening, the scriptures would be forever lodged in your brain.

Strings, horns, pianos, walls of guitars, stacks of vocals. the kitchen sink approach (hey, it's me), all to coerce you to listen, again and again. Think Beatles with Beach Boy harmonies and Queen/George Harrison guitar solos."

About Rick Altizer. (n.d.). Retrieved March 5, 2012, from Christian Music.com website: http://www.christianmusic.com/rick_altizer/rick_altizer.htm

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