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bosshoss

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Stay tuned for a massive in-depth excavation of the remains of Rochester, New York's Fine Recording Studio. This will take weeks or months, and will cover '50s rock n roll, '60s garage, soul, funk, gospel, r&b, psych, surf, and even heavy turgid rubbish if I can stand it. There's plenty of it...and as well as the music, you'll get an intimate and detailed account of the inner workings of the Fine Recording Studio, and the early days of the US recording industry. As well as a glimpse into the inventive mind of owner, Vincent Gianncuriso.
 
I really look forward to this! Say, for us who endure a certain touch of the heavyness as well, is this early 70s or hopeless heavy metal tomfoolery?
 
MopTopMike said:
Mark, regarding the garage or soul reels - is there studio chatter / talking, etc on some takes, or are the takes strictly "music only" in all cases?
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There's quite a lot of chatter on some takes. Sometimes it's just Vince saying "Ready, Set, Go!" which he did on nearly every garage band take, like they were kids in a three-legged race.
Other times it's like a complete training session, where Vince advises and cajoles, and often stops the take in mid-flight. This is particularly true of the girl singers such as Little Peppy and Pidgie. You will get the flavor of his professional relationship with many of the female artists as you hear the tapes. Kind of like "Uncle Vince", haha.
The other interesting thing is, I have tapes of every phone conversation Vince had over many years. I haven't listened to even a fraction of those myself. There are countless hours of cassettes, maybe a couple of hundred C90 cassettes full of phone conversations. I'll be posting some of those!
 
Mr.Segment said:
I really look forward to this! Say, for us who endure a certain touch of the heavyness as well, is this early 70s or hopeless heavy metal tomfoolery?
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Yeah, there's quite a bit of that. There is some original material, but a lot of it is covers of things like "Foxy Lady" or "Fire". There are also several multiple tapes of complex prog rock concept albums which were probably never released. Bands such as "The Citadel", "The Lirm" and "Shades Of Tomorrow". There's even some sitar psych. But there's nothing that I would class as first-rate heavy psych. Having said that, someone who likes that stuff may have a different opinion.
 
I've been saying there's a couple of books' worth on the NY state (and overlapping) '60s scenes, if only someone would write 'em. The more I learn and hear the more there still seems to be to learn and hear!

Didn't all phone calls being recorded used to give off a beep intermittently to let the person on the other end know they were being recorded? I did a long-distance interview by phone once and the beeps on the tape afterward got kind of annoying when I was transcribing it later.
 
Thank goodness for this. I was wondering whatever happened to such a Fine cache of material.

Have you digitized any of the master tapes so far? Has cleaning them up been a difficult task?
 
beccabear67 said:
I've been saying there's a couple of books' worth on the NY state (and overlapping) '60s scenes, if only someone would write 'em. The more I learn and hear the more there still seems to be to learn and hear!

Didn't all phone calls being recorded used to give off a beep intermittently to let the person on the other end know they were being recorded? I did a long-distance interview by phone once and the beeps on the tape afterward got kind of annoying when I was transcribing it later.
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There are no bleeps. I'm pretty sure Vince recorded all his conversations secretly to protect himself from the many angry customers who constantly complained about the service. I'll post some of the complaint letters as well.
I won't post anything too personal, such as casting couch photographs. Even though there were plenty of those to be found in the wreckage.
 
HarvestmanMan said:
Have you digitized any of the master tapes so far? Has cleaning them up been a difficult task?
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Yes I have, but only the garage stuff. There's a LOT of early (1957-64) rock n roll that many here will want to hear. All of that is still mastertape only at this stage. Many of the tapes are trashed, and the recording levels are very soft for some reason. Some tapes playback good and strong, others barely move the VU meters on the recorder.
 
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