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Wally Heider Studios. Wally Heider Studios was a recording studio founded in San Francisco in 1969 by recording engineer and studio owner Wally Heider. [1] Between 1969 and 1980, numerous notable artists recorded at the studios, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and The Grateful Dead.
Nov 10, 2016 · Nov 10, 2016. Save Article. The year was 1974, and it was a late night in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Behind an unassuming door at 245 Hyde Street, at the front desk of Wally Heider Recording studios, sat 28-year-old Susie Foot. A former wild child who had spent her early 20s partying with Jimi Hendrix and the Moody Blues in London ...
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Nov 21, 2016 · The setting was as vital to its appeal as the studio itself. “Heider’s was downtown in the Tenderloin,” says Gaines. “That’s a whole different concept down there. I mean, just to park your car and get to the studio without being mugged is a feat. The Record Plant, you could just walk out, and you’re only like one door from the water.
History. Wally Heider Recording opened its doors at 245 Hyde Street in 1969. During these early years, the studio produced many monumental recordings by groups such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, Santana, CCR, and many others. San Francisco in that era was truly a special place and time in music history, and studio stories from ...
Tales From Hyde Street Studios. Andrew Gilbert on August 21, 2023. Wally Heider was already something of a legend among sound engineers when he opened his eponymous recording studio in the Tenderloin in 1969. Though based in Los Angeles for much of the 1960s, he’d been making regular forays north for years, perfecting his remote recording ...
Hyde Street Studios is an American music recording facility in San Francisco, California. Located at 245 Hyde Street and previously occupied by Wally Heider Studios, it became Hyde Street Studios in 1980 when it was taken over by local songwriter, musician, and independent record producer Michael Ward with his two partners Tom Sharples and former Tewkesbury Sound studio owner Dan Alexander ...
