Glenn Michael Lockett (July 1, 1951 – March 4, 2023), better known as Spot, was an American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. He styled his name SPʘT, using all capital letters and adding a dot inside the O. With his older sister Cynthia, he was raised in upper-middle-class Hollywood. an all-Black formation that was part of the Tuskegee Airmen. Lockett moved from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach in the mid-1970s, where he met Greg Ginn while working at a vegetarian restaurant called Garden of Eden.

Befriending Ginn, Spot was briefly bassist for Panic, the band which would soon become Black Flag. In 2018, a gallery showing of his photographs was mounted at Pacific Coast Gallery in Hermosa Beach.

  • Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires? (January 1983)
  • Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (July 1984)

References

  • SPOT's video and introduction to his Pacific Coast Gallery photography exhibition, "Ride the Wild Wheels"
  • SPOT's photography collection from "Ride the Wild Wheels" at Pacific Coast Gallery (music, skate, rollerskate, surf and beach life photography)
  • Spot's official website
  • Spot's MySpace page