Brown began his career at
Olympic Studios in the mid-1960s, working as one of
Keith Grant's
tape ops. His first
engineering credit was on
the Who's single "
Substitute". Rush refers to Brown fondly as "Broon" in the liner notes for their albums, and the nickname appears in the title of the instrumental piece "
Broon's Bane" from their live album
Exit...Stage Left. On this same record,
Geddy Lee jokingly introduces the song "Jacob's Ladder" as having been written by "T. C. Broonsie", another reference to Brown and a pun on the name of
Big Bill Broonzy. In the 1990s while working at
Metalworks Studios in Toronto, Brown recorded
Fates Warning's
Parallels and
Voivod's
Angel Rat, and again worked with Fates Warning on
A Pleasant Shade of Gray. He also produced vocals on the
Dream Theater album
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and appears as the uncredited voice of the
hypnotherapist on that album. == Albums Brown has been involved with ==