Long View Farm Studios

Not to be confused with Longview Farm.

Long View Farm Studios was a music recording studio located in North Brookfield, Massachusetts that was founded in 1974 by Gilbert Scott Markle, a professor at Clark University, on his farm property.^[1][2]

It was the location of recordings by many well-known musicians and bands, and it was used by the Rolling Stones as a rehearsal studio in 1981.

Markle died on March 20, 2015 at the age of 74.^[3]

Recordings

Albums/EPs

• American Garage – Pat Metheny Group
• As Daylight Dies – Killswitch Engage
• Beggar's Oil – Kelly Joe Phelps
• Break the Cycle – Staind
• Cerulean – The Ocean Blue
• Children of Chaos – Soulidium
• The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me – Brand New
• Feed My Soul – The Holmes Brothers
• Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
• Home – Sevendust
• I Against I – Bad Brains
• It's Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
• Let's Be Nice – Birdbrain
• Love Stinks – J. Geils Band
• Lunch for the Sky – Socratic
• Mind on the Moon – Snow
• Misery Is a Butterfly – Blonde Redhead
• Pain Makes You Beautiful – The Judybats
• Pandora's Box – Aerosmith
• Plans – Death Cab for Cutie
• Right Back – Long Beach Dub All Stars
• Sky Like a Broken Clock – Kelly Joe Phelps
• Slip – Quicksand
• Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
• Stain – Living Colour
• Sunburn – Fuel
• Super Taranta! – Gogol Bordello
• Until the End – Kittie
• Visual Lies – Lizzy Borden
• Voices – Matchbook Romance

Other artists

• Alice in Chains
• Automatic 7
• John Belushi
• The Boondock Saints
• El Camino
• Craving Lucy
• Tim Curry
• emmet swimming
• DDT
• Devereaux
• Electrasy
• Dan Fogelberg
• Arlo Guthrie
• Head East
• Rupert Holmes
• Jediah
• The Kennedy Soundtrack
• Lifer
• Bryan McFarland
• Melanie Safka
• Mitch Winston and the Band of Natural Selection
• Muse
• Dave Reid
• Relative Ash
• Reveille
• The Rolling Stones
• The Run
• Pete Seeger
• State Radio
• Cat Stevens
• Stuff
• Three Days Grace
• Tommy Tutone
• Uncle Tupelo
• The Witness Protection Programme
• Stevie Wonder

References

1. Fischer, Wanda F., "Gil Markle '61: A Live-Wire Ph.D.", The Rensselaer Alumni Bulletin, April 1982, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2. "Special Farm Pampers Recording Artists", Reuters, November 7, 1979 (reprinted in the Sarasota Journal)
3. "Gilbert Markle Obituary (2015) - Spencer, MA - Worcester Telegram & Gazette". Legacy.com.

Further reading

• Williamson, Chet, "Gil Markle's Long View", Worcester Magazine, June 2003

External links

• "Diary of a Studio Owner: Gilbert Scott Markle"

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