I love the smell and feel of recording studios…if you’ve been inside a proper one, you’ll know what i mean…

The air is kept clean and dust-free to protect the equipment…the a/c is usually cranked up to offset the heat generated by the electronics…there’s a slight whiff of ozone created by all the electrical circuits…and it’s usually very, very quiet…loads of isolation and baffling and sound-proofing…

To me, a recording studio is the musical equivalent of an operating theatre; a place that’s dedicated to one thing and one thing only…and what goes on within the walls is deadly serious…

Okay, I’m not saying that recording a song is the same as a heart transplant or something, but there is the same sort of vibe…

There used to be dozens and dozens of these places around the planet…people would travel thousands of kilometers to work there because they were thought to be magical in some way…

But that’s when you needed a full-equipped recording studio to make a record…today, you can do a pretty good job with a laptop in your bedroom…

Many of the legendary studios are gone, a victim of the changing economics of the music industry…a few of these behemoth still exist…

This is another look at the world’s legendary recording studios, both past and present…

 

Songs in this Episode:
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Mumford & Sons - Believe
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
The Black Keys - Tighten Up
The Tragically Hip - Poets
Bob Marley and the Wailers - No Woman, No Cry

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