![]() ![]() For the first three or four years, Descendents would go on tour, I would go with them, and the studio was shut down while we were on tour. As soon as it got built, lots of bands called up, "You have a studio now? Cool!" So, we started recording. It was supposed to be for the band to make their albums and practice. ![]() When it started, it wasn’t supposed to really be a commercial studio at all. I started going on tours with those guys, doing monitors and drum tech'ing.Ī very slow but natural trajectory. I lived on the couch for a month before I found a place to live. When I moved out there, we had an Otari MTR-90, which we still have, a Mackie, plus Focusrite ISA 215 and 4-channel Red 1 mic preamps. I had bought a 4-track, recorded my band in the basement, and then got an 8-track reel-to-reel from Rob Skinner from the band Coffin Break. I had been in a studio a few times, in Tacoma,, and that lit a fire under my ass. I was 23, playing in my band, and I thought, "I don’t think I can do this job for the rest of my life! I’m going to go out there and try it." I moved out here and became the first intern. They had come up and recorded Zeke, and they stayed at my house because of our manager connection. I had met Bill and Stephen a handful of times beforehand. You want to come with me?" I was selling beer for Miller brands up in Seattle at the time.Ī beer salesman, yeah. Our band's manager said, "Hey, I’m moving out to Fort Collins. But they decided it was too small, and picked Fort Collins,, to move to. So, they were like, "We’re going to open our own studio." They were living in Missouri at the time, because they were on tour nine months out of the year, and it was cheap to live out there. They did that instead of going to the studio and spending… I don’t know how much money they used to get back in the ‘90s. Stephen and Bill had done a lot of their own records, as well as other groups. The guy who was managing the band that I was in was also managing All. I was living in Seattle,, and playing in a band. I’d always hear through the grapevine what was up with the studio's co-owner, Bill Stevenson. We interviewed Stephen in 1999, which certainly touched on The Blasting Room. Jason Livermore was there from the beginning, and now co-owns the business with Bill Stevenson (drummer for the bands above) and has engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered thousands of releases, including punk favorites such as Propagandhi, The Life and Times, Hot Water Music, NOFX, and Rise Against. What began as a home base/practice room/band studio for the groups Descendents and All quickly became a busy recording spot, luring musicians from across the globe. The Blasting Room, a studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, has been in operation for 30 years. ![]()
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