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Rob Cavallo

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Rob Cavallo produced Green Day (the 14-million-selling album Dookie and the four-million-selling Insomnia), Goo Goo Dolls, L7, The Dance Hall Crashers, Alanis Morissette ("Uninvited" from the City of Angels soundtrack) ,Jawbreaker, and The Muffs.



Born in Washington, D.C., Cavallo's father Rob Cavallo owned the Cellar Door and became a manager whose client lists included Little Feat, Weather Report, and Prince. At age ten, Rob Cavallo and his family relocated to Los Angeles. Cavallo remembers going to the recording studio with his dad and learned guitar licks from blues great Lowell Fulson. Enthusiastic about music,Cavallo spent many hours playing guitar and listening to records in his room. His father bought him a Teac A3340 four-track tape recorder and Cavallo began to experiment with multi-track recording.



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