Michael Lardie is multi-platinum and Grammy

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 nominated American

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 musician

Musician

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 and producer

Record producer

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, known for his memberships in Great White

Great White

Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"...

 and Night Ranger

Night Ranger

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. He was born on September 8, 1958, in Anchorage, Alaska

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 and raised in Sacramento, California

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.

Training

Michael is a self-taught musician having taken only a handful of lessons as a child. He plays guitar, bass, sitar, mandolin, piano, harmonica and flute, respectively.

Beginnings

At age 17 he started playing in piano bars at night while still attending high school.

Producing & engineering- Early years

Michael spent most of the early to late eighties learning the craft of analog recording

Analog recording

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. Although he is well known for producing and engineering Great White

Great White

Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"...

 records, most would be surprised to know he had a solid career recording other artists long before joining Great White. He was worked on records by artists as diverse as Black Flag

Black Flag (band)

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, Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo

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, Dokken

Dokken

Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...

, Saint Vitus

Saint Vitus (band)

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 to name a few in his early career.

Great White

Lardie joined Great White in 1986 as a session and touring rhythm guitarist/keyboardist/backing vocalist and would eventually become a permanent band member, as well as the band's producer and engineer.

The group broke up officially in 2000, and their final concert was recorded and released under the name Thank You...Goodnight!

Thank You...Goodnight!

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. In 2006, Great White reformed and continue to tour .

Production & engineering- Recent times

When Great White disbanded, Michael returned to his first love. Production. In recent years he has worked on records by Jake E. Lee

Jake E. Lee

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, Leslie West

Leslie West

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, Colin Blades (son of Jack Blades

Jack Blades

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, Night Ranger

Night Ranger

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), Shaw Blades

Shaw Blades

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 and Jizzy Pearl

Jizzy Pearl

Jizzy Pearl is an Irish-American vocalist born on March 17, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois. He first fronted the rock band Data Clan, which became Love/Hate, and has also sung for L.A...

.

Night Ranger

Michael joined Night Ranger in 2003 as keyboardist/backing vocalist, replacing original keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald

Alan Fitzgerald

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. He remained with them until 2007, performing in both Great White and Night Ranger concurrently. When Lardie left Night Ranger to pursue Great White full time again, Night Ranger hired Christian Matthew Cullen as a replacement.