Cavern Studios (2)
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Cavern Studios (2) was an industrial cave used as a recording studio in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, MO that was active from the 1960s to 1980s. It was Kansas City's first 16-track recording studio. A slew of underground artists and ambitious country music enthusiasts recorded at Cavern, but a few famous musicians logged time in the studio, including such acts as Danny Cox, Brewer and Shipley, and James Brown.
Gerald W. Riegle rented space in the old Pixley Quarry, an active limestone mine, his intent was to work a vein of recorded sound. One of the strangest recording studios ever built, the aptly-named and actually subterranean Cavern Sound soon collected a cast of characters—the country-loving general manager, the young rocker, the Sun Records rockabilly pilot—and a dedicated clientele of religious groups, schools, country singers, and rock ‘n’ roll dreamers hoping to stumble across the true sound of the underground.
From 1967 to 1973, Riegle and his partners/engineers John Pearson (11), Jim Wheeler, Jim Williams (17), Chris Bauer (3), John Moseley, Chuck Chapman and Bill Hargraves tracked thousands of hours of garage bands, school choirs, gospel trios, folk duos, and anyone who could scratch up enough cash to cover their $300 day rate. James Brown spent the better part of April 1972 in the Cave, cutting a number of his own sides alongside Lyn Collins’ crowd-pleasing killer “Think.” Prior to going “One Toke Over The Line,” Brewer & Shipley went underground for a spell. A legion of country acts entered the depths following their acquisition of Chips Moman’s AMPEX 16-track and Electrodyne console.
Cavern Sound Corp. is the name used for the recording group. Cavern Sound Corp. recorded at Cavern Studios (2) as well as remotely. The Groucho Marx 1972 album [m530160] was recorded live by Cavern Sound Corp. at Iowa State University.
Their in-house record labels Cave (12), Rock Records (4), Pearce, B-Jet, Indy Records (3), Cavern Custom Recordings, Lifetime Records (7), Cavern Records (3), and Centennial Custom Records, Ltd. share the same physical address and put out numerous releases of different genres of music from the midwest region.
Cavern Sound Corp.
16400 E. Truman Rd.
Independence, MO 64050