Brian Gaylor

Studio Engineer and musician. Born in 1952, deceased on April 4th 2003. Brian started out as a tape operator in Wardour Street. He then worked at Ridge Farm Studios as a technician, having spent time with Yes and Jon Anderson in both musical and technical capacities. Moving onwards, he became Technical Manager at the Roundhouse Studios and eventually an integral part, as designer and then Manager, of Stanley House Studios, where his innovative approach to control room acoustics attracted great interest and acclaim. As a musician, his main achievement was playing guitar in The Regents that had a hit “17” into the charts in 1985 in the UK and bits of Europe. But he's normally been on the technical side of things, usually studio maintenance. In the late Nineties he designed a big four storey complex in Acton, London, owned by Andy Morris (5). Gaylor was subsequently involved in the building of yet another recording studio in Oxfordshire, as well as designing a revolutionary new kind of light aircraft. Tragically, he was killed in a hang gliding accident in 2003.