Ralph Burns Kellogg, born August 2, 1946, in the United States, known professionally as Ethan James, was an American musician, record producer, and audio engineer. He performed as a member of the heavy metal band Blue Cheer from 1969 to 1972 and contributed to the album Mint Tattoo (1969). In the early 1980s, Kellogg founded Radio Tokyo Studio, where he engineered and produced prominent albums including Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, alongside recordings for Black Flag, The Bangles, and Rain Parade. An accomplished hurdy-gurdy player, he returned to live performance in 1989 with the San Francisco Mozart Festival Orchestra and released solo albums including A Garden Of Hurdy-Gurdy Delights (1997) and Learning Chinese The Hard Way (2002). Kellogg died of complications from liver cancer in San Francisco on June 19, 2003, at age 56.
