SH Spotlight Russ Gary recording Creedence at Heider. Beatles, etc. Do you have any favorite pix?

Thanks for the info, Martin!

Prompted me to look in the Mosaic KC3 liners; according to Mosaic, it was MacGregor to '44, Radio from '45 - '48, and "CAP" (presumably Melrose) from '49. So the top of your head's in fine form. Also a great many NKC Trio dates were waxed at "WMGM" in New York. Was that standard for Capitol, or unique to the KC3? Anyone have pics of that studio?

 

Found some additional BB/BW scans on Google:

 

Thanks for clearing that up, Chip. Keep up the great work - and keep the pictures coming...this is AWESOME!

I had to throw in a few of me and my boys in the control room of #2 studio at Abbey Road in March, 2001, recording a silly song my brother and I wrote. I'm the bald guy in the back in the middle.

The second shot is also in the control room of #2. My brother Alan is on the left, engineer Peter Cobbin is at the desk and assistant Mirek Stiles is on the right.

The third is my brother Alan and me, in our glory.

Andre

 

Caribou Ranch, Colorado

Rocky Mountain News reporter Mark Brown has started a thread about his article on Caribou Ranch:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=138434

I hope it's OK to post a couple of screen grabs I made from the article:

Control Room



George Martin and Geoff Emerick at the ranch (notice the 16-channel desk - must be an earlier photo as the one above looks like a 32-channel desk):



Not sure what they were working on - an Elton John album maybe?

 

That's really cool! Any chance you'd post a clip of the song?

 

They never worked on an EJ album did they? Could it be America?

 

I wouldn't know - I'm not a big Elton fan....

Just been searching the web and America's 1976 LP Hideaway seems a likely candidate

 

Correct.

 

Jeez, I go and hide under a rock for 2 weeks and miss one of the best threads ever?!!

These could quite possibly be some of my favorite Lennon photos, ever! He looks so genuinely happy.

 

Correct. I wrote the article. That's the America "Hideaway" album they were working on. Henry Diltz shot the front cover, and this is a never-before-seen photo during a recording session.

 

Fantastic shot. I haven't read the article yet but I look forward to it. Caribou was always mythical to me as a big EJ fan in the 70s.

 

Thanks for the link your article. Great stuff.

 

I like that. When did Universal move from the Ontario St. facility over to Walton?

 

here's a bunch of al kooper related shots from various studios.he's had quite a colorful career.you'll recognize;dylan,skynyrd,blood sweat and tears,super session,a couple of beatles and the tubes.this is the first post.another will follow.

 

and some more kooper.

 

Those are AWESOME pics. I've always wanted to see wide shots of that studio but never have found any. Thanks for posting. So sad the place is gone but thankfully the music made there still lives.

Most people think of Columbia's jazz and rock artists recording there, but a lot of great classical music was made there too.

dan c

 

The master at work:

 

I just read this thread from beginning to the latest post. FANTASTIC. It adds a new dimension to the listening experience to see the space where this stuff was recorded - particularly the posts about the Columbia 30th St space and insights about Tony Bennett etc. Enlightening stuff.

 

Something to consider for Stevehoffman.tv 2.0:

All these great pics (and the hard work in scanning, researching and gathering this stuff) would really benefit from image sharing features on this site (like Flickr) where images could be tagged and organised by band, studio, era, etc., and commented on individually, rather than requiring to be quoted. That'd also allow us to view or browse them as a slide show, or thumbnails. The same goes for all the fabulous shots that are being gathered of musicians, rare album covers, record labels, target CDs, etc etc.

 

Here's a few of Radiohead recording In Rainbows. I'm sort of surprised that nobody else has posted these yet, given the number of discboxes purchased on this forum...

 

...and another: Ed O'Brien straddles the studio monitors.

 

Everly Brothers at work...