![]() Heider moved from Oregon to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and was hired by Bill Putnam to work at United Recording as a part-time apprentice, eventually working his way up to apprentice. Heider earned a law degree from Hasting Law School and worked as an attorney until the mid 1950s. After bandleaders directed him to turn away from microphones due to his poor playing, he decided to pursue recording instead. ![]() ![]() Heider attended the University of Oregon music school and played saxophone in a 12-piece band he founded. Heider also amassed a collection of remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s, preserving some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements of many notable artists of the era, including entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, due to timing constraints of recording technology at that time.īiography Early life and education Wally Heider ( né Wallace Beck Heider Sheridan, Oregon – 22 March 1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s, recording notable acts including Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Santana. ![]()
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