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Bob Hoag is an American record producer, songwriter and musician based in Mesa, Arizona. In 2005, he was recruited to be the pianist and keyboardist for American rock band The Ataris.
Hi, I’m Bob, and I’ve been recording/producing bands for over twenty years here in Arizona. (This seems crazy to me because I’m so impossibly young, but whatever.)
Flying Blanket is a 2-studio professional recording facility located in Mesa, Arizona. It is the home base for producer/engineer/musician Bob Hoag.
- How The Pandemic Gave Hoag Time to Reflect on Pollen's Music
- Trading Pittsburgh Winters For Arizona Sunshine
- How Hoag Got His Start as A Producer
- Working with Stephen Egerton of The Descendents
- How President Gator Got Involved with The 'Peach Tree' Reissue
- Why Pollen Broke Up
- What The Group Is Up to Now
- A Text Message Started The Reissue of 'Peach Tree'
Until very recently, Hoag hadn't listened to a Pollen record in, he's guessing, 15 years. "Like most people, my musical tastes have shifted over the years," he says. "And I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds like Pollen. So I didn't really have a huge desire to go back and revisit music I did in my 20s." He's still friendly with his ...
"All of us were born and raised in Pittsburgh," Hoag says. "I love visiting there now, but the weather is not that forgiving in winter. And I don't do that well in the cold. Also, when you've grown up in a place, at that point in life, it's easy to think, 'If I move to another city, everything will be better.'" Hoag has vivid memories of the day he...
Hoag had done some producing in Pittsburgh, where he came up with the Flying Blanket name, including Pollen's first release, "Bluette." As Hoag recalls, "The first album was done on an eight-track cassette recorder we had rented. And the label, Grass, loved it and wanted to put it out as is. So we did." At the time of that album's release, the stud...
They brought in Stephen Egerton of All and the Descendents to produce their second album, "Crescent," and recorded "Peach Tree" at the Blasting Room in Colorado with Egerton and Bill Stevenson, also a member of All and the Descendents, co-producing. "They wanted to see if they could get us signed to a label that had more punk-rock cred," Hoag says....
When Pollen first decided to reissue "Peach Tree," which had never been available on vinyl, Hoag and Hargest initially planned on just splitting the cost between them and pressing the album themselves. Then Hoag called Jeremiah Gratza, a Pollen super fan who owns Thunderbird Lounge and runs President Gator. "And he was like, 'Why wouldn't you ask m...
By April 2001, the members of Pollen had decided it was time to go their separate ways after rhythm guitarist Mike Bennett said he was leaving to start a family. "We all agreed that it just wouldn't be the same with anybody else," Hoag says. "It had always been us five. I was the primary songwriter. But I wrote for thoseguys. So we decided to break...
Scanlon now divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City. He's an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in Guitar World, Time, the New York Times and Ebony. He even shot Eddie Van Halen and landed a portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover of Vanity Fair France. Bennett teaches school at Community College of Allegheny Count...
As Hoag recalls, "This whole reissue started because we have a Pollen group text message thread and we started talking a lot more during the pandemic." It was Serafini who set the wheels in motion. "He had basically listened to our entire discography, which he hadn't done in years," Hoag says. "And he was kind of going on about 'There's nobody else...
Flying Blanket is a 2-studio professional recording facility in Mesa, Arizona, and the home base of producer/engineer/musician Bob Hoag. For almost 20 years, Flying Blanket has served artists from Arizona and all over the world.
Bob Hoag, died in 2013, and did not get to witness his grandson’s professional success. In addition to being a founding member of Muirfield Village, he will now be remembered for one more reason, he is the grandfather of Bo Hoag, Ohio Stae All-American and PGA Tour member.
Bo Hoag (born July 25, 1988) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Hoag began golfing at an early age and grew up a few blocks from renowned golfer Jack Nicklaus's boyhood home.
