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Documentary filmmaker, Jeff Krulik, was the first to inform me that back in the mid-to-late 1980s, one could exit Silver Spring’s Track Recorders and walk about a mile or so up Georgia Avenue to reach another commercial sound facility: Central Recording Studio. Silver Spring historian, Robert Oshel, writes about this
Three recording facilities — Adelphi Studios, Track Recorders, and DB Sound — have helped put Silver Spring, Maryland on the world’s musical map, while a fourth, Paragon Studios, is notable for having captured The Muffins‘ influential early work (as was noted in the recent Bob Devlin piece) . Thanks to
Zero to 180 has been a direct benefactor of Tom Avazian’s unending quest for musical inspiration, a journey that has informed this website in countless ways. When Tom recently handed over a selected set of second-hand musical acquisitions, he knew darn well that I’d be powerless to resist this color-your-own
Bill McCullough, who would serve music history as Track Recorders’ Chief Engineer from 1977-1983, can readily conjure a mental image of the Silver Spring recording studio (profiled extensively here), especially the control room in all its 1970s wood-paneled glory: Studio photos courtesy of Bill McCullough Silver Spring, in the new century,
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