For over 100 years now Detroit has been a hotbed of musical talent with over 1500 labels operating alongside each other, issuing music from the Motor City alone
Having shown an interest in the art of recording at a very young age, by the time he was 12 years old Gary Rubin had built a recording facility in his family’s basement which grew to become Pioneer Recordings, a studio at the cutting edge of technology in the heart of Detroit.
Here Gary gives a candid account of life in the industry including sharing a studio with Lou Rawls, being raided by the FBI in search of gangsters, moonlighting Motown musicians, to being at the wrong end of a handgun for the sake of some stringed instruments!
Part 1 – How it all began
Part 2 – Motown and the legend of Diamond Jim Brady
Part 3 – Cat Stevens comes to town and a look to the future with a partnership with UK label MD records to issue a hoard of previously unreleased music
And we’ve only scratched the surface of Gary’s memoirs. Did i mention he’d published a limited edition book? You can get yours here but hurry before they’re all sold out !
Check out some of the previously unreleased material from Gary’s archive which have finally found their way onto vinyl with the help of UK label MD Records
