Mark Opitz

Mark Opitz would be to Australia what Don Was would be to the united states — namely, the go-to man for mainstream rock and roll and pop creation. Opitz spent some time working with just about any Aussie band which has graced the pop graphs within the last 15 years, including INXS, the Divinyls, and Hoodoo Experts. Though he 1st began his creation profession as an engineer with Australian Television, it wasn’t a long time before he noticed that he wished to be within a recording studio room. In 1975, he got a gig with EMI studios within the tape-dubbing division and after graduating towards the learning suite, he ultimately took a label work at Capitol’s Australian subsidiary where he could use his substantial influence to be EMI’s staff maker. The positioning was short-lived nevertheless, as Opitz was ultimately pressured to resign when it had been discovered he’d been creating non-label performers on weekends to apply his creation technique. Australia’s preeminent creation team at that time (and close friends of Opitz’), Vanda and Adolescent, offered him a posture as engineer and he instantly set to utilize their staple performers AC/DC. When Opitz was presented with the work of creating the Angels, a hard rock-band, he finally discovered gold by means of a personal, thick guitar audio that ruled Australia’s early ’80s airwaves. Another change to A&R noticed Opitz indication the Divinyls (later on to truly have a U.S. strike with “I Contact Myself”), in addition to produce INXS’ 1st traditional, 1982’s Shaboo Shaboo. Within the ’90s, Opitz created several even more INXS albums, including Thanks for visiting Wherever YOU MIGHT BE and Total Moon, Dirty Hearts. He right now functions for Australia’s Mushroom Information.