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Studio help please.
Posted by Chris G on 2 September 2010 - 12:43pm.
been asked to do a music quiz and wanted to do a FAMOUS studios round. Think I could pull together most of the well known ones but would be grateful for your help to fill any gaps; would like a nice global spread.
I am most grateful in advance for your help.
cheers.
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I'm rubbish on stuff like this
So I'd only know the really obvious ones – Olympic (117 Church Road Barnes, London SW13 9HL) and Abbey Road (3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London NW8 9AY).
(And maybe Lee Perry's Black Ark. Which he burnt down. But it was in Washington Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica)
Nice revision, Brookster
Hansa, Germany
Air, Montserrat
Hitsville, USA
From Memphis to Manchester
Stax & American Studios, Record Plant, Muscle Shoals, Strawberry Studios....
C'mon, Archie,
we want addresses :-)
(See below)
Strawberry Studios
Now defunct (http://www.strawberrynorth.co.uk/)
Address: 3 Waterloo Road, Stockport.
(Odd fact, trivia fans: the studio is just round the corner from the site of the Stockport air crash of 1967.)
American Sound, Memphis
Long since gone...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/visitation-rights#comment-27930
FAME Studios,
603 East Avalon Ave, Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
these are all good cheers
anyone know any in france , spain or italy?
Château d'Hérouville
in Hérouville not far from Paris. Much in vogue during the seventies. Closed in 1985.
I couldn't for the life of me...
....remember the name of that studio....so thanks!
That's where Elton John did Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road if I remember correctly.
Having just finished a book on Phil Spector
You could include Gold Star too. Has Dave Gilmour still got that converted houseboat?
Rockfield...
Rockfield in Monmouth. Sawmills in Golant, Cornwall. Maida Vale in, erm, Maida Vale.
Any of those do?
Sun Studios,
Memphis has to be the most famous one. Don't forget the 'home recording' studios of Joe Meek, and the Purple One's Paisley Park Studios (7801 Audubon Road Chanhassen) which was part funded by Warner Bros. A bit closer to home Trident Studios in Soho which is still, I believe, involved in sound production but not as a recording studio, home to, amongst others, the Beatles and their Apple chums, and Eel Pie Studios at Twickenham. Wasn't there a feature on the Word blogs about now defunct recording studios?
paisley park yes
*slaps forehead*
Rockfield and Monnow Valley are both within a mile of each other
just outside Monmouth.
Don't forget:
304 Holloway Road (Joe Meek),
Basing Street (Island),
SARM (Trevor Horn)
Morgan in Willesden
The Manor in Shipton (Virgin, Mike Oldfield)
Britannia Row (The Pink Floyd)
De Lane Lea in Dean Street (everyone recorded there!)
Lansdowne (more sessions than you could shake a stick at)
Regent Sound (Denmark St, The Rolling Stones first album)
IBC in Portland Place - where Porky did his prime cuts!
Eel Pie and Ramport (both Pete Townshend)
how famous do ya want...
Joe Meek's studio was of course at 304 Holloway Road N7, between 1961 and 67.
whilst in the US don't forget
CBS 30th Street, NYC
Capitol, Hollywood
Gold Star, Hollywood
LA Sound Recorders, Hollywood
Criteria, MIami
Cosimo's aka J&M (three locations in Nawlinz from the late 40s on)
RCA Nashville Studio A / B
CBS Nashville
Rudy Van Gelder's (two locations)
Bell Sound NYC
etc,etc,etc,
and if you want really obscure, Fortune Recording in Detroit MI.
Polar Studios
Abba's gaff.
They were located at 58 Sankt Eriksgatan on Kungsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden, fact fans. Of course I knew that and didn't use Wikipedia.
Double post
Mobiles
Don't forget Ronnie Lane's LMS mobile and the Stones famous BMC truck.
First 3
U2 albums: Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
Dave Gilmour's converted houseboat is the Astoria Studio
Ocean Way Recording...
6050 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
On the Lake Geneva shoreline....
Mountain Studios, Rue du Théâtre 9, Montreux, Switzerland. Until it burned down.
wow this is all great cheers people
Real World Studios
Box Mill, Mill Lane, Box, Wiltshire , SN13 8PL. Prop. Mr P Gabriel.
Still going strong
Electric Lady Studios
52 W. 8th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City
Woodworm Recording Studios
Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire.
Spiritual home of English Folk-Rock.
Kraftwerk's gaffe
Kling Klang Studio
Mintropstrasse 16
Dusseldorf
ECM's favourite studio
Rainbow Studio
Sandakerveien 24C Building D6
0473 Oslo
Norway
excellent
another country ticked off
Jacobs Studios
Jacobs Studios, Dippenhall, Surrey
The Queen is Dead, among many others. Now sadly closed down.
Tambourine Studios
Sofielundsvägen 57
214 34 Malmö
Sweden
Famous for being the studio where the Cardigans recorded their albums, but many others have recorded here ( St Etienne and Tom Jones being the most famous, but also all sorts of "indie heroes" both swedish and international ).
I don't think anyone mentioned
the now defunct Sound Techniques which was in Old Church Street, Chelsea where among others Joe Boyd recorded Nick Drake and Fairport Convention. The Who, Elton John and John Cale have also recorded there.
As have I
Probably just a session for a baked beans advert though
The 'Just Like Eddie' hitmaker should have done one...
'Beanz meanz Heinz'.
Toe Rag
The only one left, i can think of, that hasn't been mentioned, is Toe Rag Studios, in Shoreditch. Famed for having not a single peice of equipment made after 1963, this has become the go-to place for those acts seeking a certain authentic analogue sound. Most famously The White Stripes' "Elephant" was made there for that reason. The WS track "Ball & Buscuit" was named after a strange shaped analogue mic found there and nicknamed the ball and biscuit, fact fans!
The STC4021 'Ball & Biscuit' mic
was used for years at the BBC and, for a time, was installed within Abbey Road as an ambient mic.
I don't know if it qualifies as famous
in some eyes, but how about the Kinks' Konk studios
Konk Studios, 84-86 Tottenham Lane, London, N8 7EE
Now up for sale
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1042060
The taxman's taken all my dough
Got to sell the recording studio...
Rick Rubin's living room...
....is famous too.
Certainly for fans of Johnny Cash.