Stasium began his recording career in 1970 fronting the band Brandywine. He appeared on their sole
LP,
Aged. When he returned to the music industry three years later, it was as a recording engineer. By the end of 1975 he was hired as a staff engineer at Le Studio Morin Heights in Quebec, Canada. There he would assist with the recording of several albums by the French-Canadian band
Garolou. In 1976 he was involved as a sound engineer in the production of the album
Morin Heights by the Scottish band
Pilot, which was recorded in Canada in the studios of the same name. Stasium's long affiliation with the American punk and new wave, and the latter-day alternative rock, began in 1977, the year he engineered both the Ramones'
Leave Home and
Talking Heads'
Talking Heads: 77. His production career began a year later with the Ramones'
Road to Ruin, followed in 1979 by work on the group's ''
It's Alive and the soundtrack to the film Rock 'n' Roll High School''. Stasium enjoyed perhaps his greatest success during the latter half of the 1980s. In addition to engineering
Mick Jagger's
Primitive Cool, he scored a major hit with
Living Colour's
Vivid, The album was released on August 5, 2014. Previously living in
Bayfield, Colorado, Stasium currently resides in
Poway, California. ==Selected discography==