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

Billy Jones in the Victor Recording Studio, 1920.

 

Bones Howe at the boards

 

Left to right – Dale Manquen, Grover Helsley, Scotty Lyall
Upper – Bill Halverson, Wally at console, unknown
(Monterey Jazz Festival, 1966)

 

Fats in the studio




...and as a bonus....

 

Skydog, Jerry Wexler and Jerry Jemmott rehearsing before Aretha Franklin session

 

Johnny and the Hurricanes and BigTop Records honchos...

 

Jack Scott and The Chantones...

 

Bill Szymczyk and BB King during the "Thrill is Gone" sessions for ABC-Bluesway

 

The all-time classic: Bob and Victoria Spivey in a studio (NY? hers in Chicago?) some time in the early 1960s (dig her leer...)

 

Out to Hunch!

Hazel Adkins in his West Virginia hollow home studio

 

Son House at the "Father of the Delta Blues" session

 

and the Pacemakers...

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Now we're rockin'!

 

4 fellers foolin' around at Sun Records...

 

Indeed. I can't get enough of it.

 

A few more of Brian & Co.:

Going over "In Blue Hawaii"

With Tommy Shaw

And heeerrreee's Mark!

 

I was looking for some info on Trident and came upon this cool shot of the sessions for Peter Gabriel's third album:

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A few from my personal archives.

This was taken while recording a small string section for a Billy Bob Thornton soundtrack. This is the same section that played on ELO's Zoom album. Billy Bob is at the bottom of the picture.

 

This was taken at Masterfonics while Neil and I were mixing Marty Stuart's Pilgrim album. From left to right is me, Marty, Neil Dorfsman and Tony Brown (MCA president).

 

This is a favorite shot of Marty. We had a pretty good time doing all these records. At lunch we'd break out an old Stones record and sit in awe how great some of their stuff was.

 

Last one. This is a horrible shot of me way back in 1994 (with my disastrously long hair and hideous looking glasses) at the first studio I worked at (The Sanctuary right on 16th Avenue). Notice the Studer A-80 remote. That was a beautiful sounding 24 track machine! And at the top left you can see one of the very first Joe Meek compressors. I think it was serial #4. Hank Williams owned it (no, not that Hank Williams ). He mastered several albums through it including Ashley Cleveland and Alan Jackson.

 

Sort of a question/comment regarding the various shots of recording in the Acoustic days. Those horns are actually serving as a microphone that feeds directly to a blank disc, correct? That's the way I understand it, anyway.

I'll also say that this is a great thread!

 

Fabulous shot of Marty! That's one guy I'd love to listen to records with. Lucky you! Thanks for sharing!

 

Great thread.

Here's a few of Nat King Cole. They aren't "in booth" - I don't have any such shots - and they aren't rare, but they are favs.

This is at the MacGregor studios, which had a remarkable life during and after this period. Capitol often recorded here before the Tower era, with Melrose studios a mainstay in between if I'm remembering this rightly. Anyhow this shot is a quiet moment, reminding on of the reality behind scenes as many pics in this thread do. Penciling stuff out himself, here.



Here we have an off camera shot taken in the old NBC television studio probably pre-videotape. Nelson Riddle's holding fort at the desk / podium, note the old tv "tucked" in there about as much as one could with a tv then. Waaaay up off to one side (on the wall? curtain?) is a monitor of the active image.



Sing it boy!



A bit of the magic in this I think.



Cole. Armstrong. Ella. And goodness gracious.