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NEW YORK — One Sunday after
noon, when Manhattan’s garment
and loft district was silent, the fourth
floor Dreamland Studios were full of
sound — very loud sound.
The occasion was a departure from
the routine in the cramped booths.
Mostly, Dreamland cuts “demo”
tapes for rock and disco performers,
or would-be performers. This was a
full-fledged recording session.
U.S. Ape was cutting its own re
cord.
Except in some Greenwich Village
nightspots, U.S. Ape, is about as un
known as a rock group can get. But
its members have dreams of fame
and fortune.
“It happened to the B-52s,” said
Tom Goodkind, 23. He writes the
songs, sings lead, plays bass guitar,
and is “fronting the project.’’
“The B-52s are a band from
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“Now there are a whole bunch of
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operator. “This is the place where it
can happen for a lot of the new wave
bands. The Dots made their own, got
some radio play on it, sold a fair
amount of records.
“It’s so hard to get a major record
label to listen to your band without
an incredible rep. A lot won’t listen
to unsolicited tapes.
“But, if you put out a record on
your own, and it sells, gets played,
maybe they’ll hear it, give it a
chance.”
That’s why U.S. Ape cut its first
record a year ago—“a one-track tape
we had pressed into a single.” The
first company they had press the re
cord was raided as a record pirate
just as the group arrived to pick up
copies of the record. After convinc
ing authorities they had nothing to
do with the outfit’s illicit operations,
Goodkind and friends got another
firm to press 2,000 copies they then
sold door to door. Later, a small in
dependent distributor took them on.
“We learned from the experi
ence,” said Goodkind. “This time
we re much more professional.”
Shauna Laurie, 23, of Boston, who
also sings, was playing a three
keyboard organ.
Goodkind, Marty Maniak, 23, of
Buffalo, N.Y., lead guitarist, and
Paul Richards, 22, Grandville, Ohio,
drummer, sprawled about the con
trol booth listening, their faces stu
dies in concentration.
Peter Lewis twisted dials at the
control board — mixing Shauna’s
playing into the group’s music, play
ing it back. There would be a discus
sion, sometimes heated. Then it
would be mixed again.
Goodkind looked at his watch.
Studio rental was $25 an hour. Up
town, the fees range up from $175,
Dorfman said. But this was still big
money for Ape, even if Lewis, an
engineer with a well-known studio
weekdays, was there as a volunteer
on his own time.
“This is out of the mainstream of
pressures and craziness of the expen
sive operations,” Lewis said. “It’s re
laxing for me, trying to help them
out.”
“The Knack spent $15,000 on their
latest album, ” said Goodkind. “Then
it went platinum, sold a million.”
Compare that, he said, with the
$400,000 spent to produce the more
established Supertramp’s latest
album.
Ape’s effort, “Ignorance is Bliss,”
is far more modest, even than The
Knack’s. An extended play record, it
carries three songs, two on one side,
one on the other. Production cost
about $2,000, everything counted.
Trade and barter covered some
costs. Recording is on eight tracks
instead of the 24 or more used by
established groups.
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ting the music speak for itself, said
Dorfman, who became fascinated
with the recording process and
opened this studio with a friend,
Steve Rosenthal.
“It’s not like the days of Tin Pan
Alley,” he said. “Then, you could
walk in with sheet music. In the ’60s,
you could make a tape on a recorder
in your house and send it to a record
company.
“That’s still the musician’s dream.
But it’s not the reality. The record
companies, they want a group with a
live show rep and a record before
they’ll think about a contract.”
Uptown, at Casablanca, a label
ranked first in a recent issue of the
trade journal Billboard, Irv Beigel,
vice president for East Coast opera
tions, reviews demos submitted by
rock groups.
Regarding talk some labels don’t
listen to demo tapes, he said, "I im
agine there are some companies that
don’t, but we do listen. That’s how
you find new talent.”
Do the likes of U.S. Ape and The
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do-it-yourself production route?
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dent who makes final decisions on
the West Coast). Some years ago, we
were working for different com
panies. There was this group, Ques
tion Mark and the Mysterians. They
cut a record. Distributed it them
selves in the Michigan area.Or.
own, they sold 61),000 to"fe
Bogart bought it out fromuA( .
After he picked it up, it sold
of a million.
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dates he was organizing, tie®’,
stores he’d talked into carrffiH
record, plans to appear a! !fe:{
sign records.
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