Early Career
John Custer spent the early part of his career in New York as a studio session guitarist, providing guitar tracks for national television ads such as VH-1, Ford, Jovan, Mazda, Revlon, and Coca-Cola. At age 25, he began producing and developing original artists. His work runs the gamut from comedian Rich Hall to punk-metal pioneers Corrosion of Conformity.
Custer's first major project was Corrosion of Conformity's Blind, initially released on Relativity Records. Blind caught the attention of Columbia Records and COC was signed.
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