"Edwin H. "Eddie" Kramer" was born on 19 April 1942, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a recording producer and engineer. Kramer has collaborated with several artists now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These include the Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Kiss (band)/Kiss, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Carlos Santana.

Kramer has engineered and/or produced records for other well-known artists in various genres. They include Anthrax (American band)/Anthrax, Joe Cocker, Peter Frampton, John Mayall, Mott the Hoople, John Sebastian, Carly Simon, the Small Faces, Dionne Warwick and Whitesnake.

Kramer's movie soundtrack credits include Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight, Festival Express, Jimi Plays Monterey, Jimi Plays Berkeley, Live at the Fillmore East, Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1971 film)/Mad Dogs and Englishmen, The Pursuit of Happiness (1971 film)/The Pursuit of Happiness, Rainbow Bridge (film)/Rainbow Bridge, The Song Remains the Same (film)/The Song Remains the Same, and Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More.

Kramer is interviewed extensively in Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin,’ a two-hour American Masters documentary which debuted in November 2013.

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There's gonna be one nice piece of product coming out every year for about the next 15 years. There's enough good stuff there, trust me.

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We always joked and kidded around, every day and every moment.

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Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very hard and the sessions were very light-hearted.

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[Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon.] It think it's very clever, and very, very emotionally charged, ... It has a tremendous wallop, I think.

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I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must be 10 years ago that the Hendrix family got the rights back and in so doing we have been literally caretaking all the wonderful music that Jimi left us.

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When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing.

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There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who's this guy? Where did he come from? We tracked him down. He was a student. His parents had given him some money to buy an open reel video recorder, ... It shows some wonderful moments that were not captured by the other cameras.

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Look at the mikes. There are three mikes on the drums, all Shure 58s, not what you'd call high-end condenser microphones.

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