Glen “Spot” Lockett Cause of Death

Glen Lockett, known professionally as Spot, a producer and engineer of some of the most crucial punk and post-punk records of the early 1980s, died on March 4, 2023, at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

The news of his death was confirmed by former label co-owner Joe Carducci. According to Carducci’s Facebook post, Lockett died at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

“He had been on oxygen after fibrosis had begun to impair his lung function, and was hoping for a lung transplant, per the post, but a stroke three months prior necessitated a trip to the hospital,” Carducci wrote.

“He started in Hermosa Beach playing and recording jazz and he took the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or industrialize a back-to-basics arts movement in sound.”

He added: “When approaching the mixing board SPOT would assume an Elvis-like stance and then gesturing toward all the knobs he would say in a Louis Armstrong-like voice, ‘This is going to be gelatinous!’”

Aside from his music, he was a photographer as well as a freelance writer. He wrote for the Los Angeles newspaper Easy Reader and published Sounds of Two Eyes Opening, a photography book, in 2014.