Long View Farm

Long View Farm Studios was a music recording studio that is located in North Brookfield, Massachusetts which was founded in 1974 by Gilbert Scott Markle, a professor at Clark University, on his farm property.^[1][2]

It has been the location of recordings from the Rolling Stones and other well-known musicians and bands.

Recordings

Songs

• "Chip Away the Stone"
• "I Will Follow You into the Dark"
• "Working Too Hard"

Albums

• American Garage
• Beggar's Oil
• Children of Chaos
• The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
• Freeze Frame
• Home
• I Against I - Bad Brains
• It's Blitz!
• LCD Soundsystem
• Let's Be Nice
• Love Stinks
• Lunch for the Sky
• Pandora's Box
• Plans
• Sky Like a Broken Clock
• Slip
• Sound of Silver
• Stain
• Super Taranta!
• Until The End
• Voices
• Feed My Soul

Bands

• Aerosmith
• Arlo Guthrie
• Alice In Chains
• Automatic 7
• Bad Brains
• Birdbrain
• The Boondock Saints (band)
• Brand New
• Cat Stevens
• Craving Lucy
• Cyrus Erie
• Dave Reid
• DDT
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Devereaux
• El Camino
• Electrasy
• The Holmes Brothers
• The J. Geils Band
• John Belushi
• The Kennedy Soundtrack
• Kittie
• LCD Soundsystem
• Living Colour
• Matchbook Romance
• Mitch Winston and the band of Natural Selection
• Pat Metheny Group
• Pete Seeger
• Quicksand
• Rolling Stones
• The Run
• Rupert Holmes
• Sevendust
• Soulidium
• State Radio
• Stevie Wonder
• Three Days Grace
• Tommy Tutone
• Tim Curry
• The Witness Protection Programme
• Uncle Tupelo
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

References

1. Fischer, Wanda F., "Gil Markle '61: A Live-Wire Ph.D.", The Rensselaer Alumni Bulletin, April 1982, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2. "Special Farm Pampers Recording Artists", Reuters, November 7, 1979 (reprinted in the Sarasota Journal)

Further reading

• Williamson, Chet, "Gil Markle's Long View", Worcester Magazine, June 2003

External links

• "Diary of a Studio Owner: Gilbert Scott Markle"

Coordinates: 42°17′40″N 72°05′18″W / 42.294476°N 72.088331°W