The studio’s two Neve consoles have been sold to studios in Detroit and Los Angeles. Since I got started in this business, Ive found one thing to be true again and. The asking price of $650,000, which included the building, property and equipment, yielded no serious offers, Stephenson says. The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was a recording mecca for rhythm and blues, rock and pop artists in the 60s and 70s. Capturing the Muscle Shoals Sound: Recording My New Album At FAME Studios. Muscle Shoals was put up for sale on Internet auction site eBay in 2004. “It was just a very difficult thing to compete with.” “When computer and hard-disk recording really got cheap and better at the same time, it just knocked the socks off a lot of studios, included,” he says. Hood, the Muscle Shoals film led to an upswing in tourism and more work for the musicians. The two-room facility was used extensively by Malaco artists, Stephenson adds, but the last four years saw a sharp decline in outside projects. The burst of attention has helped the small town. “To be quite frank with you,” Stephenson tells Billboard, “the only reason we bought the studio was, the banks we were dealing with wouldn’t loan us the money on the publishing company they didn’t have any idea what it was. Malaco Records principal Wolf Stephenson explains that he and his partners were more interested in acquiring Muscle Shoals Sound Publishing, a catalog that includes “Old Time Rock & Roll” and “Torn Between Two Lovers,” than the recording studio. In 1978, the facility moved to a 31,000 square-foot building, also in Sheffield. There's a chance hi-fi is coming back, but do you really have. You can focus on sound quality, but most people can't hear it. A Rolling Stones session at Muscle Shoals featuring sideman Jim Dickinson, who played on the Stones’ “Wild Horses,” is featured in the film “Gimme Shelter,” which documents the band’s 1969 U.S. A year ago I read this quote from self-proclaimed expert music biz blogger, Bob Lefsetz: 'We live in a lo-fi era. Musicians Jimmy Johnson, David Hood, Barry Beckett and Roger Hawkins, known collectively as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, founded Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Ala., in 1969. The studio, owned since 1985 by Malaco Records, closed last month a film production company is in the final stages of purchasing the building. Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, at which artists including the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger recorded classic songs, has closed.
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