Lionshare Recording Studios

[robmix]

Anyone know what happen to the Lionshare Recording memorial website. It used to be here:

http://www.imagine-net.com/pub/pab/LSRS.html

But it has vanished. I've got one of the rooms in the old building and I'm trying to track down some history.

Thanks

[elco]

Originally Posted by robmix

Anyone know what happen to the Lionshare Recording memorial website. It used to be here:

http://www.imagine-net.com/pub/pab/LSRS.html

But it has vanished. I've got one of the rooms in the old building and I'm trying to track down some history.

Here you go. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://.../pab/LSRS.html

8 years of archived history. You got to love the Way Back Machine.

Cheers,

elco

[robmix]

Awesome, that's what I was looking for. If anyone else has any pics or stories about the old ABC/Dunhill or Lionshare studios please feel free to PM me. Paul McKenna was very kind to send me a list of clients he worked with there.




Thanks

[cgarges]

Do you have a copy of the "We Are The World" documentary?

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[jayfrigo]

It went from ABC Dunhill to Lionshare, briefly to Winsonic, then Babyface took over and it was called Yab Yum. At that time A and B looked pretty much as in Lionshare days, but studio C was given an aesthetic facelift (but technically it could have been better). After Yab Yum, it sat empty for a bit, then Winsonic tried to revamp it again, but in less than a year the tech stocks crashed, the money evaporated, and the project was abandoned. I have some rubber checks from that period. Last I heard I think the individual rooms were rented separately and run as independent businesses.

Back in the ABC days, there was actually a pool out back in a little courtyard. It was later enclosed and this is where they built the three reverb chambers. After that there was a courtyard in the center of the building (no pool though) which was later enclosed on the bottom floor to function as warehouse space, and a deck was built above it with access from the second floor (which is where the studios are).

In the attached building next door is a great Italian Restaraunt called Pane et Vino. Around 4PM exhaust from the brick oven starts coming in the HVAC system in studio A and everybody gets hungry. I'd love to see what the current tenants have done with the studios. There were a few issues that needed addressing, but it was a fabulous place with wonderful potential. Studio A was surprisingly well kept. The control room had a few things that needed sorting, but the studio was in great shape. I've since left L.A. to start a family, but maybe I'll have to go knocking on the door next time I'm out west.

[robmix]

Thanks Jay, that's the stuff I'm looking for. Sadly, only Studios A and C are still intact. Studio B was torn out last week as the owners think they can get more money making the space into an office. There was also a downstairs room that I heard John Arias used back in the day. It has been torn out and made part of the retail store on the Beverly side. The room was a converted closet and most people had trouble working in there as it got a bit claustrophobic and never really sounded great.

Re: Winsonic, he still comes by. Tried briefly to get the downstairs studio happening again, even had an office there but the finances got in the way again. Funny how many people have the same story about him.

I'm in Studio C and it's a great space. There's acoustic issues with both rooms and isolation is less than perfect which I thought was odd. The chambers are being used for storage by the sweat shop, oops, I mean manufacturing entity that rents the warehouse space below the second floor patio. So that's a crime. And we still get the restaurant smells just about everyday. Kind of scarey to think about what it's doing to my lungs. Come on by.