Long View Farm Studios was a music recording studio located in North Brookfield, Massachusetts that was founded in 1974 by Gilbert Scott Markle, a professor at Clark University, on his farm property.[1][2]
It was the location of recordings by many well-known musicians and bands, and it was used by the Rolling Stones as a rehearsal studio in 1981.
Markle died on March 20, 2015 at the age of 74.[3]
Recordings
[edit]Albums/EPs
[edit]- American Garage – Pat Metheny Group
- As Daylight Dies – Killswitch Engage
- Beggar's Oil – Kelly Joe Phelps
- Break the Cycle – Staind
- Cerulean – The Ocean Blue
- Children of Chaos – Soulidium
- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me – Brand New
- Feed My Soul – The Holmes Brothers
- Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
- Home – Sevendust
- I Against I – Bad Brains
- It's Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
- Let's Be Nice – Birdbrain
- Love Stinks – J. Geils Band
- Lunch for the Sky – Socratic
- Mind on the Moon – Snow
- Misery Is a Butterfly – Blonde Redhead
- Pain Makes You Beautiful – The Judybats
- Pandora's Box – Aerosmith
- Plans – Death Cab for Cutie
- Right Back – Long Beach Dub All Stars
- Sky Like a Broken Clock – Kelly Joe Phelps
- Slip – Quicksand
- Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
- Stain – Living Colour
- Sunburn – Fuel
- Super Taranta! – Gogol Bordello
- Until the End – Kittie
- Visual Lies – Lizzy Borden
- Voices – Matchbook Romance
Other artists
[edit]- Alice in Chains
- Automatic 7
- John Belushi
- The Boondock Saints
- El Camino
- Craving Lucy
- Tim Curry
- emmet swimming
- DDT
- Devereaux
- Electrasy
- Dan Fogelberg
- Arlo Guthrie
- Head East
- Rupert Holmes
- Jediah
- The Kennedy Soundtrack
- Lifer
- Bryan McFarland
- Mitch Winston and the Band of Natural Selection
- Muse
- Dave Reid
- Relative Ash
- Reveille
- The Rolling Stones
- The Run
- Pete Seeger
- State Radio
- Cat Stevens
- Stuff
- Three Days Grace
- Tommy Tutone
- Uncle Tupelo
- The Witness Protection Programme
- Stevie Wonder
References
[edit]- ^ Fischer, Wanda F., "Gil Markle '61: A Live-Wire Ph.D.", The Rensselaer Alumni Bulletin, April 1982, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- ^ "Special Farm Pampers Recording Artists", Reuters, November 7, 1979 (reprinted in the Sarasota Journal)
- ^ "Gilbert Markle Obituary (2015) - Spencer, MA - Worcester Telegram & Gazette". Legacy.com.
Further reading
[edit]- Williamson, Chet, "Gil Markle's Long View", Worcester Magazine, June 2003
External links
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