Name Patrick Hutchinson Also known as Hutch Instruments Piano | Years active 1980s–present Role Sound engineer | |
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Origin Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Occupation(s) Sound engineer, musician, artist, lighting designer, pianist Genres Rock music, Stoner rock, Hard rock, Punk rock Record labels Interscope Records, Elektra Records, Man's Ruin Records, Loosegroove Records Associated acts Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age Similar People Gene Trautmann, Dave Catching, Stone Gossard, Natasha Shneider, Troy Van Leeuwen | ||
Patrick Hutchinson (born October 15), better known as Hutch, is a Canadian sound engineer and member of the band Queens of the Stone Age, specifically its live incarnation. Queens of the Stone Age band leader Joshua Homme has regarded him as "road brother" since the pair first collaborated in desert rock band Kyuss.
Biography
Hutch was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He worked for many different punk rock bands during the 1980s before being hired to do sound for Kyuss. In the aftermath of the break-up of Kyuss, guitarist Josh Homme brought him along to his new project, Queens of the Stone Age. Hutch was subsequently responsible for recruiting Dave Catching to the band as a touring guitarist in 1998, thereby starting the latter's professional relationship with Homme which would later culminate in the Desert Sessions and continue in Eagles of Death Metal.
The band credit much of how good they sound live to Hutch, who has also contributed piano, vocals, and artwork to the band's repertoire. While contributing to Queens of the Stone Age, he has acted as sound engineer for other bands, including most recently Eagles of Death Metal, The Raconteurs and Them Crooked Vultures.
Hutch, along with Homme and Seattle-based artist Wayne Sherman, was a key progenitor of the Secret Wall Tattoo art project, whereby the trio would leave elaborate illustrations and paintings behind picture frames in hotel bedrooms.