Producer Richard Dashut, best known for his work with Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, and several others, is up in Las Vegas now working with a few indie rock bands. He and a few partners started Ifymm Records recently, and named local band Fletch as their first signee. The band is already getting some serious attention [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 20, 2007
Free Play Dance Crew benefit show
Switching gears from all of the historical tidbits, I thought I’d tip ya’ll off to a cool benefit happening at Vertigo on Feb. 1. Free Play Dance Crew, a hip-hop dance troupe co-founded by pop artist Joshua Klipp, will host a fundraiser for their upcoming show, L1FE (one life). Expect go-go dancers, performances from the [...]
January 18, 2007
“Steppin’” Into Wally Heider’s
Hi,
Here’s another studio story, this one circa 1975 at Wally Heider Recording, now Hyde Street Studios. The Pointer Sisters recorded some of their first few albums with producer David Rubinson. This one, Steppin’, was recorded at Hyde Street just before Rubinson launched The Automatt in the old Columbia Studios spot (see first two posts). It’s [...]
January 16, 2007
Dead Gear
My friend and colleague, Mix senior editor Blair Jackson, recently authored Grateful Dead Gear: The Band’s Instruments, Sound Systems and Recording Sessions From 1965 to 1995 (Backbeat Books). The SF Chronicle published an excerpt from the book that covers part of the lengthy making of their “difficult” second album, Anthem of the Sun. Take [...]
January 15, 2007
Columbia Pt. 2: Mysterious gonks and reigning loonies
Hello! In the spirit of, I dunno, organization, here is the rest of Columbia Studios’ brief San Francisco story, all the way to their exit from the city, which left the door open for The Automatt, the beloved studio owned by producer David Rubinson. I have a splitting headache at the moment, so I’ll be [...]
January 13, 2007
My debut blog: Columbia Records/Studios, SF
Hi! This is my first attempt at a blog, so bear with me. I started this thing to share info from my book, “If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios,” as well as other random musings related to the San Francisco recording scene: news, interviews, pics, commentary, and whatever [...]
