Mick Fleetwood Speaks Out to Save the Record Plant in Sausalito

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Mick Fleetwood Speaks Out to Save the Plant Studios in Sausalito

 

In 1972 the third location of a new kind of recording studio called The Record Plant was founded here in Sausalito.  Later renamed The Plant Studios, the facility at 2200 Bridgeway closed last year after almost four decades hosting artists from Andrea Bocelli to Metallica, and from Santana to Carrie Underwood.  Now a non-profit foundation called Artsboretum is trying to preserve the vacant building as an incubation space for music and musicians.

Fleetwood Mac recorded Rumours here, which was released in 1977 and has sold over 40 million copies.  On a recent trip to California Mick Fleetwood dropped by to visit the place where they became a super-band, and was horrified to find it shuttered.  Here's the video he recorded in support of its preservation:

  

This is just a partial discography of albums that were recorded at the Plant Studios:

 

1973 Grateful Dead -- Wake of the Flood; Bob Marley and the Wailers -- LIVE at the Record Plant
1974 Joe Walsh -- So What (Gold); Three Dog Night -- Hard Labor (Gold); Eric Burdon -- Sun Secrets
1975 Pure Prairie League -- Two Lane Highway; Stephen Stills -- Stills
1976 Stevie Wonder -- Songs in the Key of Life (effects) (Platinum x 4, Grammy Award); Flo and Eddie -- Moving Targets; New Riders of the Purple Sage -- New Riders; Sammy Hagar -- Sammy Hagar (Gold)
1977 Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours (Platinum x 19); New Riders of the Purple Sage -- Who Are Those Guys; Pablo Cruise -- A Place in the Sun (Platinum)
1978 Dan Fogelberg -- Twin Sons of Different Mothers (Platinum); Pablo Cruise -- World’s Away (Platinum); Delbert McClinton -- Second Wind; Prince -- For You
1979 Jefferson Starship -- Freedom at Point Zero (Gold); Van Morrison -- Into the Music
1980 Maze with Frankie Beverly -- Joy and Pain; Dan Fogelberg -- Phoenix (Platinum x 2)
1981 Jefferson Starship -- Modern Times (Gold); Bob Weir -- Bobby and The Midnights; Rick James -- Street Songs (Platinum)
1982 Van Morrison --: Beautiful Vision
1983 Huey Lewis and The News -- Sports (Platinum x 7); Van Morrison -- Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
1984 Jefferson Starship -- Nuclear Furniture (Gold)
1985 Aretha Franklin -- Who’s Zoomin’ Who (Platinum); Huey Lewis and The News -- Power of Love (Gold); Heart -- Heart (Platinum x 5); Starship -- Knee Deep in the Hoopla (Platinum); John Fogerty -- Centerfield (Platinum x 2)
1986 Aretha Franklin -- Aretha (Platinum); Huey Lewis and The News -- Fore! (Platinum x 3); Journey -- Raised on Radio (Platinum x 2); Kenny G -- Duo Tones (Platinum x 5)
1987 Sammy Hagar -- I Never Said Goodbye
1989 Doobie Brothers -- Cycles (Gold); Michael Bolton -- Soul Provider (Platinum x 6)
1990 Mariah Carey -- Mariah Carey (Platinum x 9); Tony! Toni! Toné! -- The Revival (Platinum); Mother Love Bone -- Apple
1991 Michael Bolton -- Time, Love &Tenderness (Platinum x 8); Primus -- Sailing the Seas of Cheese (Platinum); Doobie Brothers -- Brotherhood; Harry Connick Jr. -- Let Me Love You, It’s OK; Mariah Carey -- Emotions (Platinum x 4); Peabo Bryson -- Can You Stop the Rain? (Gold); Marky Mark and Funky Bunch -- Music For the People (Platinum)
1992 Mariah Carey -- Music Box (Platinum x 10); Carlos Santana -- Milagro; Kenny G. -- Breathless (Platinum x 12); Celine Dion -- Celine Dion (Platinum x 2); SWV -- It’s About Time (Platinum x 3); Tracy Chapman -- Matters of the Heart
1993 Metallica -- Live Sh!t: Binge and Purge (Platinum x 9); Joe Satriani -- Time Machine; Carlos Santana -- Sacred Fire - Live in South America (Gold); Primus -- Pork Soda (Platinum); Van Morrison -- Too Long in Exile
1994 Carlos Santana -- Brothers; The Breeders -- Last Splash (Platinum x 6); American Music Club --San Francisco; Luther Vandross -- Songs (Platinum x 2); New Kids On the Block -- Face the Music; 4 Non Blondes -- Bigger, Better, Faster, More (Platinum)
1995 John Lee Hooker -- Chill Out/Naked; Chris Isaak -- Forever Blue (Platinum)
1996 Metallica -- Load (Platinum x 4); John Lee Hooker -- Don’t Look Back; Charles Brown -- Honey Dripper; Rusted Root -- Remember (Gold); Big Head Todd and The Monsters -- Beautiful World
1997 Metallica -- ReLoad (Platinum x 3, Grammy Award); G-3 -- G-3; Faith No More -- Album of the Year; Joe Satriani -- Crystal Planet
1998 Santana -- Supernatural (Platinum x 30, 8 Grammy Awards); Metallica -- Garage, Inc. (Platinum x 5, Grammy Award); Too Short -- Can’t Stay Away (Gold); E-40 -- The Element of Surprise (Gold); Candlebox -- Happy Pills; Primus -- Rhinoplasty; Dave Matthews Band -- Before These Crowded Streets
1999 Metallica -- S & M (Platinum x 6, Grammy Award); Guster -- Lost and Gone Forever; Kenny Wayne Shepherd -- Live On; Third Eye Blind -- Blue (Platinum x 2); The Deftones -- White Pony (Platinum x 2, Grammy Award)
2000 Blues Traveler -- Bridge; Oleander -- Unwind; Stabbing Westward -- Stabbing Westward; Too Short -- You Nasty (Gold)
2001 Zucchero -- Shake; DJ Shadow -- The Private Press; Oysterhead -- The Grand Pecking Order
2002 Tracy Chapman -- Let It Rain; Joe Satriani -- Strange Beautiful Music; Dave Matthews Band -- Busted Stuff (Platinum x 2)
2003 The Donnas -- Spend The Night; Train -- My Private Nation (Platinum)
2004 Andrea Bocelli -- Andrea (Gold); Sonia Dada -- Test Pattern; Von Bondies -- C’mon C’mon
2005 Carrie Underwood -- Some Hearts (Platinum x 3); Mudvayne -- Lost and Found (Gold)
2006 Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy -- Adieu, False Heart; Michael Franti -- YellFire!; Charlie Musselwhite -- Delta Hardware
2007 Noisettes -- What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?; Negramaro - La Finestra (#1 in Italy)
2008 Journey -- Revelation; Ligabue -- Primo Tempo (#1 in Italy)
2009 The Fray -- The Fray (recorded in 2008)

 

"The rich music legacy contained in these walls is awe-inspiring and worthy of preservation," says Mari Tamburo, independent music artist and founder of the non-profit Artsboretum. "If just a small fraction of the people whose lives have been touched by the music created here donated at least one dollar to our cause we would have more than enough funding to preserve this building and jumpstart our non-profit programming.“

 

 

You can contact Artsboretum to make donations.

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Comments

[Susan]

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Susan

[Editors]

Thanks, Susan -- we really appreciate your coming by and your comment. Good luck with your Mariah Carey lyrics site!

[Jennifer Kistner]

Save the plant!!

[Mari Tamburo]

Thanks again for your support of our effort to preserve this precious icon of Sausalito's unique creative legacy! - feel free to share this online donation link with your friends
http://ihcenter.org/groups/av4c

- we are on our way to our first phase goal of $50,000