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John Yates
John Yates is credited on 655 releases across 275 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
655
Credits
275
Albums
7
Decades active
631
In collections
Biography
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San Francisco bay area-based graphic designer originally from Leeds, England.
From 1990 to 1999 he was the owner. Yates worked at Alternative Tentacles Records for 10 years, and now does graphic design for AK Press, PM Press, and G7 Welcoming Committee Records, as well as running his own graphic design company,.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
655 releases · 275 albums · active 1969–2026
- Other credits · 747
- Performance · 3
Studios: Westbeach Recorders · Profile Sound Studios · Razor's Edge Recording · Chicago Trax Recording Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Bad Brains
1982

Milo Goes To College
1982

Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
1987

Dear You
1995

24 Hour Revenge Therapy
1994

Rock For Light
1983

How To Clean Everything
1993

I Against I
1986

I Don't Want To Grow Up
1985

Goddamnit
1998

Wrong
1989

Less Talk, More Rock
1996

Tomahawk
2001

Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
2024

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
2001

1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
1991

Unfun
1990

Bivouac
1992

Operation Ivy
1991

Enjoy!
1986

Volume One
1991

The Dissent Of Man
2010

Etc.
2002

Remains
2007
Frequent collaborators
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