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Former Location –
Aerosmith recorded their first major hit “Dream On
” here when it was previously known as Intermedia Studios. Dream On was released by Columbia Records on June 27, 1973. The Cars purchased the studio in the early 80’s and recorded most of their hits in the 1980’s here including “Shake It Up
“.
Notable Recordings Made At Synchro Sound:
“She Bop
” by Cyndi Lauper
“Pretty Hate Machine
” by Nine Inch Nails
“Rock For Light
“ by Bad Brains
“Work For Love
” by Ministry
“Never Say Never
” by Romeo Void
“Nuggets
” by Iggy Pop
Synchro Sound
330 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02115
“Rock for Light”, the timeless punk album by Washington D.C.’s iconic rasta punks, Bad Brains, was recorded at Synchro Sound. Ric Ocasek produced the album, which was inspirational to bands such as The Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many others.
I worked there in the early 90s. Ocasek stopped by a couple times, Mighty Mighty Bosstones recorded a concert intro there, Roger Waters had a satellite record release party. Good times. Anyone ever heard of Ginger Buttkiss?
Part of Nine Inch Nails’ “Pretty Hate Machine” was recorded here back in late 88 or early 89. Not sure which of Flood/John Fryer/Keith LeBlanc/Adrian Sherwood had a connection that brought Reznor here…likely LeBlanc as he’s fairly local these days (is that him commenting above me?).
I was the assistant engineer on “Head Like a Hole” and “Terrible Lie” with Trent Reznor’s NIN Pretty Hate Machine produced by Flood. Doug DeAngelis was the engineer. Also, during the NAB conference in Boston of 1990, we had a listening party at the studio with Paul Simon and Lenny Waronker debuting his “Rhythm of the Saints” album.
I worked there in the 70s for Tom Crossthwaite. He’d hand me a couple twenties every once in a while and I kinda lived on the couch.
I worked there in the late 70s for Tom Crossthwaite. I slept on the couch and cleaned up, wound up cords and ran to the liquor store or deli.
Early 70’s saw T-Bone Walker with Paul Pena in one of the studios. Very stoned experience, a film crew was there and stopped filming because of the pot going around. Paul Pena was amazing.