News about this site..
There’s a new Wikipedia article which needs YOUR input to flesh it out. I think Wally deserves a mention but I know nothing about his biographical details and very little about his business dealings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Heider
Also, Wally Heider Studios page is very short on content. Needs your help to save it from “speedy deletion.”
Wikipedia article – click here
Please take a look and add more content.
-binksternet
Left to right: GD clients Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and SF staffers Stephen Barncard and Russ Gary.
Some former WHR San Francisco clients and employees gathered for a MIX magazine photo shoot at Hyde Street Recorders at 245 Hyde Street Studio A. The studio, although improved with a vintage Neve console and a couple of iso booths, is otherwise intact after 37 years. This was the first time the four were there at the same time at this location since the 70′s.
Unless something else happens, the studio location is slated for demolition later this year, as the building has new owners and Hyde Street have lost their lease.
More info about the photo shoot and Hyde Street can be found in the October issue of Mix Magazine, and a tiny photo and abbreviated article at Mixonline.com
The Recording Wally Heider Photo Gallery
The Heider photo gallery is now online. I posted the first gallery, a few shots I took during NRPS, Crosby, Dead and Brewer and Shipley sessions. Coming soon is a series of photos taken by Lesley Barncard at a Booker T. and the MGs session in Heider’s 4 in LA in 1976.
If you have photos of the interiors of WHR studios, or happy people recording there, please consider contributing. Also I really need some good photos of Wally. All I have still is the one I colorized for the banner – stolen from a 1975 Shure microphone ad. A nice portrait and some photos of Wally interacting with clients, by the remote truck, early years at United-Western, on the road recording Woody, etc. Blank track sheets would be cool, and I’m looking for a clean copy of the ‘oscilliscope’ WHR logo that was seen on mid-70s adhesive tape box stickers.
A separate registration is needed for the photo gallery uploading – WordPress and Gallery are not integrated, but you are free to use the same user/passwords during your registration (the Gallery will send you an email with your temp password, then you can go to the Gallery and change it to whatever you like. After registering, I’ll approve and upgrade your membership for posting.
Please contribute! If you have material and don’t have access to a scanner, let me know. I can do that for you. I’m located in San Francisco.
stephen barncard