Wally Heider Studios

Wally Heider first opened up a studio in Los Angeles, California. Heider later saw the need for musicians involved in the nascent San Francisco Sound to have their own recording studio.

Artists like Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Grateful Dead had been recording in Los Angeles and New York. In early 1969, Heider opened the San Francisco Wally Heider's Studio at 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, between Turk and Eddy Streets, across the street from Black Hawk jazz club. Heider planned four studios—A and B on the ground floor and C and D upstairs. However, studio B was never finished and instead became a game room.

Heider and his crew were very well known for making excellent studio and remote location recordings and for top notch engineering.

Heider sold the business to Filmways in 1968 but remained as the manager of the studios.

In 1980 Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco was sold and became Hyde Street Studios, still running as of 2008.

Albums recorded

1969

*"Green River" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
*"Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane

1970

*"Déjà Vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
*"Blows Against the Empire" by Paul Kantner
*"American Beauty" by Grateful Dead

1971

*"Bark" by Jefferson Airplane
*"Sunfighter" by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick