Ryan Greene started his musical career as a drummer in local
Los Angeles bands. He became a live engineer at the age of 15. At age 19 he started working at
MCA Music Publishing Studio as a tape duplicator. Greene was eventually promoted directly to first engineer. He was the youngest engineer at MCA. While employed by MCA he worked together with people like
Glen Ballard,
Diane Warren and
Desmond Child. From 1988 to 1996, Greene worked at
EMI music publishing as chief engineer where he did all the pre-production for
Megadeth's best selling album
Countdown to Extinction, released in 1992. It sold over a million copies. This eventually lead Greene to working with Megadeth bassist
Dave Ellefson's band
F5. In 1994, he worked with
Brett Gurewitz owner of
Epitaph Records and founding member of the
punk rock band
Bad Religion on a demo recording for
Bad Religion.
No Use for a Name,
Good Riddance,
Pulley,
Strung Out,
Propagandhi,
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes,
The Dickies and was instrumental in coining the successful sound of the 1990s
skate punk. In 2005, Ryan Greene founded the Crush Recording Studios in
Scottsdale, Arizona. Greene has also engineered and mixed songs for the video games
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, In 2011, he released a drum sample replacement library called
Ryan Greene Alt Drums. ==Selected discography==