Shorefire Recording Studios: "NJ's longest operating recording studio, PROUDLY since 1978!" And so Helios was born. Alvin Lee/Ten Years After
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In the 1960’s a gentleman named Dick Swettenham worked as a Service/Design engineer for Abbey Road Studios. In the early 1970’s he began to work for Olympic Studios where he controlled Design and Maintenance. He approached the owners of Olympic stating that if they allowed him to order the necessary parts, he could build a desk that was far more musical than anything available at the time. They gave him the ok, once the desk was completed and commissioned most of the great rock musicians of the era which included Jimi Hendrix, started to book time at Olympic. Most British and some American recording artists were now using Olympic Studios so Chris Blackwell of Island Records decided that if he built a studio around a Helios console he would save money and also have his own studio busy with artists wanting to record on the Helios console. But he was a client of Olympic, it would be impossible for him to request that Dick Swettenham of Olympic to build a console that would be in direct competition with Olympic, so he put up the finance for Dick to go into business. And so Helios was born. Seven consoles were built for Island, which included mobile studios. At this time Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells was selling well for Virgin Records, so Richard Branson had Helios build three consoles one for The Manor Studios, one for the Manor Mobile, and one for Townhouse Studios. The Who built Ramport Studios, around a Helios, The Rolling Stones built the legendary "Rolling Stones Mobile", 10cc built "Strawberry Studios" and so the story goes on, even the Beatles built “Apple Studios” around a green Helios console. The Helios became known as the Musicians Choice of Recording Consoles! 1. Alvin Lee/Ten Years After 2. Apple Studios/The Beatles 3. ARC Studios 4. Arctic 5. Ginger Baker 6. Barbarossa Studios 7. Berwick Studios 8. Erik Clapton 9. Dawbreaker/Seals and Crofts 10. John Entwistle 11. Folkwange Hochschule 12. Hansa Tonstudio 13. Harry J Studios 14. Island Studios, Studio 1 (Desk #1) 15. Island Studios, Studio 1 (Desk #2) 16. Island Studios, Studio 2 17. Island Studios, Hammersmith 18. Island Studios, Mobile Unit 19. KPM Studios 20. Ronnie Lane Mobile 21. Le Maison Rouge 22. Le Maison Rouge Mobile 23. London Weekend Television 24. Love Records 25. Mainos Television 26. Manor Mobile 27. Manor Studios 28. Manor Townhouse 29. Steve Marriott 30. Paul McCartney 31. Media NL 32. Musicland 33. Norway Radio/Trondheim 34. Olympic Studios 1 (Pre "Helios" Swettenham design). 35. Olympic Studios 2 (Helios #1) 36. PSC Canada 37. Ramport Studios/The Who 38. Release Records 39. Rolling Stones Mobile (Helios #3) 40. Leon Russell 41. Russian Hill Audio/Funky Features/Steve Miller 42. Strawberry Studios/10cc 43. Studio 70 44. Talent Studios 45. Telemetropole 46. Tempo Studios 47. Universal Sound 48. Webcapital Radio Music 49. Web Education/ CET Teheran 50. Ron Wood FACT: Led Zeppelin, Alvin Lee, Bad Company, Bad Finger, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Donovan, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Free, Humble Pie, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Leon Russell, Marc Bolan & T.Rex, The Moody Blues, Mott The Hoople, Nazareth, Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, Stevie Winwood, Supertramp, Traffic, Uriah Heep, The Who, 10CC, and countless others all recorded on Helios consoles. Come to Shorefire and hear why, it's the sound of ROCK!
