On-Set Mixer – Tommy West is a record producer and singer-songwriter. West’s career as a performing artist began in 1958 when he co-founded the doo-wop group the Criterions with Tim Hauser, who later became a founding member of the Manhattan Transfer. In 1963, West became a radio announcer and music director of WRLB-FM in Long Branch, New Jersey. In 1966, he left the station and began work for ABC Records in New York. West became a session and jingle singer and sang back-up vocals on albums by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Sammy Davis, Jr., Connie Francis, and Mitch Ryder.
Between 1971 and 1973, West and musical and production partner Terry Cashman produced Jim Croce’s three album discography: You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Life and Times, and I Got a Name. They received five gold records for their work on Croce’s hit singles, and all three albums have acheived platinum status. Simultaneously, Cashman and West were on the charts with their first single “American City Suite.” After Croce’s death, Cashman and West worked with Jim Dawson, Mary Travers, Henry Gross, Dion, Gail Davies, and Ed Bruce, and Anne Murray among others.
The majority of Remedy was filmed and recorded in his home studio – a 10,000 square foot renovated barn he calls “Somewhere In New Jersey.” Wired by his stepson Blair Robinson in the mid-nineties, each former horse stall was intended to serve as a recording booth, and nearly the entire rustic structure was transformed into a soundstage between 2009 and 2011 with foam core, paint, and a staple gun. All of the dungeon scenes that don’t take place in the hallway or lounge space were shot there. West helped engineer and train other crew to man the booth, helping to make Remedy one of the best sounding independent films around.