Guided tour of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio - recording studio used by Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd
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- Muscle Shoals Sound Studio - the recording studio used by Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Cher, Duane Allman, Linda Ronstadt and so many others.
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0:00 Intro
0:20: Drive to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
1:10 Arrival at studio
2:01 Start of guided tour
3:16 Inside the studio control booth
5:05 The studio
6:00 Duane Allman in the restroom!
9:01 Outside the studio
9:50 Outro
The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway is another iconic and legendary recording studio that is well worth a visit.
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Now we have stopped on North Jackson Highway at Muscle Shoals Sound studio. This is where the rhythm section from the FAME studio came and created their own studio here
3614 Jackson Highway.
This was on Cher's album cover. I think Cher was the first one to have an album out or an album recorded here.
But the Rolling Stones came here and recorded 'Brown Sugar' and 'Wild Horses' and Keith Richards did say in the documentary he would have loved to come back and carried on more recording here but they went to a chateau in France instead.
This was a dry county until '82. That's why the Stones only came here once! They would go to Tennessee get all the beer kegs and liquor and stuff at the state line
This is David's old Sony U-Matic video cassette player.
Like a little FM radio
This is the API logo. Very famous - API is one of the leading audio
manufacturers today. They are making great equipment and they have for a long time. This board was custom-built for Chet Atkins in 1969.
And this belonged to Chet for about 20 years I've heard. But can you guess where this started at?" Nashville. RCA Studio B,
So we are recording here today a little bit.
We're mainly our main focus today is tourism but every so often we have recording sessions and this is the board that we use today.
Pop Staples. Staple Singers
That is Pops and David sitting here.
Roger Hawkins...playing the drums.
Guys, that Boz Scaggs record you saw Duane Allman he was naked in that photo -
I read an article, it was in Rolling Stone magazine last week, and it said that Duane on that Boz Scaggs record... do you know where he would have played in the room? He played in the restroom on that record.
They would have Bob Seger in here and have like a mic on the acoustic guitar in here and then they would, Duane would play lead in here Cher singing there - they would do all kinds of stuff in here.
Guys, this is the studio built for Wild Horses right here.
The Swampers made a thousand and nine dollars.
Apparently they were really good.
It was like a local softball team and they were called MS Sound.
And this is Lynyrd Skynyrd.
David told me one day, he said he was working on Linda Ronstadt's record over there
playing the bass.
And that was 71
and he said there were two guys hanging out on the porch out there
and they kept peeking in the back door and it was getting on his nerves.
And it was Glenn Frey and Don Henley
out there on the porch!
He didn't know who that was but....
they were in her band before they started The Eagles.
SIAN - Oh, okay.
GUIDE - This guy right here, this was one of their lead guitar players
and his name was Wayne Perkins
and I met him last Saturday, he came in here last Saturday. This is a funny photo. This is Ronnie Van Zandt and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
OTHER - Are they in the bathroom too?
GUIDE - It looks like he's sitting on his lap in the control room. SIAN - (laughing) Are they in the bathroom too....
SIAN - Everybody pile in the bathroom!
GUIDE - Wayne was
15 years old in Birmingham
and then he moved here and started working at Quinvy's Studios
and then somebody from here saw him over there and brought him here
and he was 16 years old and he started playing on records here. And he played on Joe Cocker's record here.
And he played on Leon Russell's record here.
And he played on Linda Ronstadt's record here.
And he played on
Lynyrd Skynyrd. They didn't have many session players in their career
on records
but Wayne played lead guitar on their records.
'Street Survivors'
He played on that here.
OTHER - It's cool to say we are in the same space as music royalty.
GUIDE - It really is.
So that was the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
The white wreath flower on the front is for Jimmy Johnson who died
9th September, one of the
founders, one of the musicians here - Jimmy Johnson -
died just last week.
He's the guitarist and he was the main....
possibly the main producer of the four
Swampers - David Hood, Barry Beckett
and
the other guy, I can't remember his name (Roger Hawkins)
There's the sign 'Welcome to the city of Muscle Shoals. Hit recording capital of the world!'
Please leave a like and comment if you enjoyed this video. Why not take a look at my video for FAME recording studios just a few miles from here czcams.com/video/bRbdFOUkulk/video.html
Hello :). I just subscribed to your page . I live in Orlando area . Please contact me when you come back .. Would love to show you around :). For My Daughter and I , it has been out lifelong goal to go to THE UK .. We LOVE everything about it and cannot wait to get there someday ! Would be great knowing somebody there :).
Thank you so much! Ooh, Orlando is our other favourite place to visit and have been fortunate to visit several times. We have a playlist on here from when we took our granddaughter to WDW in 2018.
Thank you for preserving this amazing place. It’s mind boggling the contribution this place has made to the world ! Thank you...
Hi IslandDigital! Yes, it is incredible how much classic music came out of one small studio. Along with the FAME studio (which is on my channel), it was well worth a visit to the Muscle Shoals area. Thank you very much for watching and commenting!
Awesome !!!
That Guy Telling it All is
Chase Brandon !!! He was Very Informative &
On Point !!!
Yes, he was great to be fair. Very interesting tour of such an iconic studio. Thanks for watching 👍
This was one of the hi lights of my husband's life visiting here. We spent the day just so he could feel how Skynard felt there and me Bob Seger. We loved it. Thank you for the memories.
Thanks for sharing Nancy. It was incredible for us as well to visit this and other studios where so much classic music was created. Thanks for watching 👍
Incredible that they can maintain that historic place! A time of very good music and great composers.
Yes, it's great that these studios where so much historic music was made have been saved. Thanks for watching 👍
What an amazing place, thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Katie Marie! Thanks for watching 👍
@@OceanHops 💙 😊
Thank you for an amazing flashback of the trip
I did last year. Such a great spot!
Thanks for watching and commenting Rob - much appreciated! Glad it brought back some memories for you - the Shoals is a great place to visit for music buffs!
So tiny what an amazing little building
Hi. Yes, a bit like FAME and Memphis Recording Service it's incredible when you stop and think how much classic music came out of such a small place! Thank you for taking a look 👍👍
What is the Song in the introduction? killer sound.
Home Sweet Home....
Thanks for watching Music Man. I hope you liked the video 👍👍
@@OceanHops I go bye it at least once a week. I actually met Dobie Gray & George Jackson in 1975. Dobie tipped me a dollar and I ask him to sign it. He did & wrote a note to me. I was their waiter is a very small restaurant soon as you cross O'Neil bridge over the Tennessee River. I was 15 years old. They ask me if I knew where they could buy some smoke. I was shocked that 2 grown men would ask me that question, but just so happened. I did have some to share with them later on that night. They were cool & I still can't believe to this day I smoked with Dobie Gray & George Jackson. I saw the original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd at Holiday Inn when it was in Florence. That was in 1973. Been to George Jones house when he lived here. I live one block from a house with a recording studio in the basement where Country musicians from Nashville come and record. No one would ever think a thing about it. Most of the people around here never even knew when a big name was in town. That's one reason so many big names came here to record. Just to get away from the big cities. Born & raised here for 60 years now. Been in 45 States, Canada, & Mexico & I love it here better than anywhere I have been. It gets cold, but other than that it's great to me...
Wow! Thanks for sharing your stories - smoking with Dobie Gray, seeing the original Lynyrd Skynyrd - that must have been so cool. I'd not been to the Shoals area on previous trips but loved it down there.
@@OceanHops Check out The Alabama Music Hall of Fame on youtube. It's just about 5 minutes from MSS. FAME Recoring Studio is also within 2 miles. FAME is where it all started. FAME stands for Florence Alabama Musical Enterprise. Do you know the history of W.C. Handy Father of The Blues? Helen Keller.?
Hey Music Man. Take a look at my Tennessee Trip playlist - we did the Alabama Hall of Fame, FAME and W C Handy birthplace on our Alabama detour! They're all on there 🙂
Toured this year. To be in the place where JJ Cale recorded lies lies lies, was supersweet.
Hi - yes, still feels surreal to visit these culturally historic places. Thanks for watching 👍
At the end of the vid the guide referred to the Lynyrd Skynyrd album Street Survivors being recorded there and Duane Alman playing on it. That is not correct. Before Skynyrd got a record deal they recorded a bunch of stuff at MSS. This was prior to their record deal. Street Survivor album was started at Criteria Studio in Miami with Tom Dowd producing. Their previous recordings had been done at Studio One on Atl with Rodney Mills engineering. During Street Survivors the band decided they liked the drum and gtr sounds better in ATL and decided to move the project to ATL. Tom Dowd got mad and left the project but had the contract so his name was on the album. Rodney Mills finished the recording as uncredited producer. This would lead to Rodney's break out work producing 38 Special Wild Eyed Southern Boys. All of this has been documented in several books and documentaries. Rodney is a friend of mine. Check him out online.
Hello there. Interesting - thanks for the information 👍.
Did he say Duane Allman played on Lynerd Skynerds Street survivors? Cause he didn't.
Hi James. No, he said Wayne Perkins played on it.
can I COME TO MUSCLE SHOALS AND RECORD CLIFF JONES LESSON TO BE LEARNED GOOGLE
Young Blood,You know your Shit..
😄 thank you M L! Hope you enjoyed it.
I did,,TY
Thought it was CHESS records who did rolling stones cuz of muddy waters
Hi! Yes the Stones recorded quite a bit at Chess in the mid60s but they recorded Sticky Fingers here in 69/70. Thanjs for watching 👍🙂
David who??
Hi Jim -David Hood was the Swampers bass player.
@@OceanHops and he was very prominent on IL TAKE YU THERE. ALS, THAT WASN'T POPS ON IL TAKE YOU THERE. IT WAS Eddie Hinton. He was one of the most talented among the greats but he was a bad luck guy. He would sit on the back porch and school the other musicians, especially Glenn Frey and Glenn loved it! That back porch alone, should be a National monument!
@@kenperkins7921 hi Ken. Thanks for the info! It's such a culturally significant place I'm so glad we made the trip to be in such places where music history was made.