Wheresville Productions

12/12/2023

HI All! Mark's wife, Linda-Marie, here again. I have finally put together Catalog #1 of Equipment and Instruments for sale from his Studio, Wheresville Records.

If you want to view it, send me a Private message and I'll send it to you via private message,. For some reason, I am unable to attach a PDF file to this post.

Things are already selling so if you want something, claim it now.. I will send an invoice and allow 30 days to pay.

The equipment is in Durham, NC and I do not plan on shipping any large items anywhere. I visit Western NC (from Asheville down to the SC border) and Columbia, SC so if you are near these places we can make an arrangement.

If you have any questions, let me know.

07/16/2023

Also, made Todd the highest paid record producer in the world at age 25!

Released July 15, 1973. Severing the relationship with their manager Terry Knight was an ugly divorce but, when Grand Funk Railroad realized that Knight had been taking 90% of the music royalties while leaving the three musicians to divvy up the last ten, they made their move. Enter young music wizard Todd Rundgren who, while only in his early twenties had already engineered and produced The Band Stage Fright and Badfinger‘s Straight Up while establishing a successful solo career with the brilliant Something/ Anything?. Rundgren brought some polish to Grand Funk’s freight train in the studio, which also encouraged singing drummer Don Brewer to step up his game with songwriting and step up to the main vocal microphone with the #1 hit title song We’re an American Band in 1973 as well as the follow up, Shinin’ On. Don Brewer and Mark Farner guest in this IN THE STUDIO episode. http://bit.ly/3NWKIdk

06/30/2023

50 years ago today the New York Dolls in the studio with producer Todd Rundgren.

05/10/2023

04/21/2023

New Frank in June - Funky Nothingness

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03/12/2023

50 years ago, Pink Floyd used a command center of incredible instruments and studio tricks to blast off into space.

03/06/2023

Nearly all my records are now available for download at bandcamp including a 30 Year Anniversary Edition of my first album from 1993 - Seasons of Ice originally released on ICR Records.
Will try to get the rest up this week. NEW EP coming late April 2023

9 track album

02/20/2023

Released Feb 19, 1971. The third effort by London’s YES (official), simply titled The YES Album, remains a touchstone. If the British Invasion bands led by The Beatles and Rolling Stones wanted to be Rock’n’Roll’s second verse after “Be Bop a Lula” and “Maybe Baby”, then London’s King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer and YES were determined to be rock’s “C” section, the musical bridge which takes the listener somewhere unexpectedly before returning to the familiar refrain. “I was very lucky because when I first started working with Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Peter Banks and Bill Bruford, there definitely was a feeling that we were all experimenting,” YES lead singer, lyricist Jon Anderson recalled to me.” It was a very great time in London for experimenting around 1968-69. The five major bands that came out of that time were King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and YES. These were groups of people unbeknownst to each other that were doing very similar activity. Nobody really knew what each other’s groups were doing.” Tony Kaye, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, Chris Squire and Jon Anderson guest in this IN THE STUDIO episode. https://spoti.fi/3kauXVs

02/20/2023

The Far Side

02/15/2023

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Recorded live at the Chapman Cultural Center Music Mosaic Concert - June 22, 2013 Copyright 2013 Frank Walker Music Frank - keyboard & programming Mark - guitar

01/20/2023

🕯️Today, we remember Meat Loaf.

This photo taken outside the theater with Meat Loaf, his daughter Pearl with her husband, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the band Anthrax - Scott Ian and their child, is shared by Pearl Aday. She says: "I was born just a handful of miles away in Kingston, NY. Mom and I lived in Woodstock. Mom worked at Bearsville Studios in the 70s, and Dad worked on the legendary Bat Out of Hell album here. They met at the end of 1978 and married three weeks later in the beginning of 1979 over on Mink Hollow at the home of Todd Rundgren. I was the flower girl. So much wild history for us here in Bearsville and in the town of Woodstock, NY. We love you, Dad."

Michael Lee Aday better known as Meat Loaf, collaborated with producer/songwriter Jim Steinman and began production for Bat Out Of Hell in late 1975 at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY. The album went on to sell over 43 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Part of the credit for the LP’s mega-success certainly belongs to Todd Rundgren. When Rundgren discovered that the deal with RCA did not actually exist, he went to Albert Grossman. Grossman offered to put it on his Bearsville label but needed more money. Rundgren had essentially paid for the album himself!

One fond memory Rundgren has was Meat Loaf proposing to his wife. "We were up in Bearsville, there was a secretary at Bearsville Records, Leslie, and Meat Loaf kind of fell for her. She was a pretty girl, and he fell for her, and I remember when he kind of like did his first big move on her. We were in the Bear Cafe and he had a package that he had brought up from New York and presented it to her, and it was a giant whole salmon. And it was as if a bear had proposed to his mate. Instead of a ring, a salmon."

Meat Loaf will always hold a huge place in Bearsville History.

01/19/2023

All our hero’s are starting to leave like dominos, we knew it was coming.

More HD and HQ colorized videos in this channel. Check It Out!!

01/17/2023

It's not the gear, it's the player says Miller, but then, those vintage Telecasters and ES-335s sure do come in handy