The Gas Station Recording Studio

THE HISTORY OF THE GAS STATION RECORDING CLUBWell kids, back ‘round about September 1990, Don Kerr and myself, Dale Morningstar, sold our 4-tracks, pooled our resources, bought a 1/4” 8-track w/ built in mixer and converted my basement warehouse apartment into a recording facility for our own personal musical projects. Soon enough, individually we started working with friends’ bands, discovering that we could actually get paid for learning to operate these new used toys. We got more and more consumed by the process. Busy and busier. Eventually we parted ways with the sacred 8-track, upgraded to 16 track 1” and relocated around the corner to the top floor of an older warehouse building. This was October, 1992. we had a view of the lake and the T.O. skyline. The live rooms had character and groups of all manner loved this rock palace.Our run lasted more than 7 years, afterward we were ceremoniously turfed unto the street by our corporate landlord, only to be resuscitated on a beach on Toronto Island. That was May 2000 and the sandbar is still holding. We’ve still got that old 1 inch machine which we sync up to digital da-38’s and 88’s, if needed, and lay down vocals through perhaps a neuman tube mic and over-dub guitars and pianos and pump organs and drums and other assorted fun instruments lying around out here through some kinda compressor or other such funky device, in the end all equalized and mixed to the 1/4” studer 1/2 track and,of course the c.d. burner for everyone’s home enjoyment.Yeah, some people might think transportation would be difficult - ‘how do you get out there to make music?’ - well folks we have something called year-round ferries and a shuttle bus. There is even the possibility of overnight lodgings. Plus all the natural elements one would not imagine existed a mere 15 minute boat ride from the foot of Yonge Street. Yes indeed, you too can make yer very own classic album for $50. hr/$500 a day. What are you waiting for? Get in your canoe and paddle over to the Gas Station Island Recording Club for wayward musicians...Peace, d-mo.