| Spot | |
| Image Upright: | 1.2 |
| Birth Name: | Glenn Michael Lockett |
| Birth Date: | July 1, 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Record producer |
| Years Active: | 1977–2022 |
| Website: | spotinator.com (archived copy) |
| Past Member Of: | Panic |
Glenn Michael Lockett (July 1, 1951 – March 4, 2023), better known as Spot, was an American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records.[1] He styled his name SPʘT, using all capital letters and adding a dot inside the O.
Glenn Michael Lockett was born in the Los Angeles area to a white mother (maiden name Katz) and an African-American father on July 1, 1951.[2] With his older sister Cynthia, he was raised in upper-middle-class Hollywood.[2] Lockett's father Claybourne, known as Buddy to his soldier friends, had been a fighter pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron in WW II,[3] an all-Black formation that was part of the Tuskegee Airmen.[4] Lockett moved from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach in the mid-1970s, where he met Greg Ginn while working at a vegetarian restaurant called Garden of Eden.[4] Lockett also freelanced for Easy Reader, authoring record reviews under the name Spot.[4] [5]
Befriending Ginn, Spot was briefly bassist for Panic, the band which would soon become Black Flag.[4]
Spot recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1986. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag,[1] Minutemen,[1] Meat Puppets,[1] Hüsker Dü,[1] Saint Vitus,[1] Misfits, and Descendents.[1] After leaving SST in 1986, Spot moved to Austin, Texas.[1]
Spot was an accomplished photographer[1] and published a book of his work titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening.[6] In 2018, a gallery showing of his photographs was mounted at Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Beach.[5]
Spot died on March 4, 2023, at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he was recovering from a stroke he had suffered three months earlier. He had been suffering from fibrosis since late 2021 and was awaiting a lung transplant prior to his stroke.[9] [10]