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ADY CRAMPTON CHATS TO THE STARS

Gary Rubin – Detroit label owner, producer, recording engineer

December 25, 2023

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

 

 

 

 

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