Don Fury

Don Fury is an American recording engineer and producer who owned three rehearsal and recording studios in New York City. He has recorded and produced music for a variety of punk and hardcore bands including Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Warzone, Helmet, Into Another, and Quicksand. In 2008 Fury moved his studio to Troy, New York.

Don Fury
Birth nameDon Fury
Occupation(s)Recording engineer, record producer, mastering engineer
Years active1984-present
LabelsBuilding Records

Early life

Don Fury grew up on Long Island in New York State.[1]

Career

In the late 1970s Fury moved to Manhattan and built a rehearsal studio on 17th Street named Roach, less than two blocks from punk club Max's Kansas City.[1][2][3][4] The studio was used by punk pioneers The Voidoids, James Chance, The Stimulators, and the Bush Tetras.[1][4] Inspired by Sam Phillips' Sun Studio in Memphis, Fury built a second studio on 18 Spring Street four blocks from punk club CBGB, where Sonic Youth rehearsed.[1][2] Fury recorded New York hardcore, punk, straight-edge and post-hardcore bands at the Spring Street studio including Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Underdog, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Civ, Warzone, Helmet, Into Another, and Quicksand,[1][2][3][5] and Fury proposed the CBGB Hardcore Matinee to Carol Costa and Hilly Kristal.[3][4] In 1996 Fury was represented by manager Sandy Roberton of World's End,[5] and Fury and Roberton secured a subsidiary label deal for Fury's imprint Building Records with TVT Records, signing the progressive post-hardcore band Stillsuit.[5] Fury built a third studio named Cyclone Sound on Coney Island in Brooklyn, where he recorded cabaret-punk rockers The World Inferno Friendship Society and Celtic rockers Black 47.[1] In 2008 Fury built a new studio in Troy, New York and recorded the bands After The Fall, Skeletons In The Piano, The Erotics, Murderers' Row, and Aficionado,[2][3][6] and mixed and mastered recordings for Deep Throat (Italy), Volver (Guatemala), Remission (Chile), Radical Noise (Turkey), and Outright (Australia).[4]

Recordings

Further reading
  • Beth Lahickey (1997). All Ages: Reflections On Straight Edge. Revelation Books. ISBN 1-889703-00-1.

References
  1. Kirsten Ferguson (15 January 2009). "The Shape Of Troy To Come". Metroland. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  2. Brian McElhiney (9 October 2010). "Don Fury is master at producing 'real' sound in studio". The Daily Gazette. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  3. Curro Onate (1 January 2010). "Don Fury,p.52-55". Staf Magazine. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  4. Bianca Valentino (21 September 2012). "NY Record Producer Don Fury". Conversations With Bianca. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  5. Chris Morris (Sep 28, 1996). "TVT, Don Fury Bow Building,p.6,99". Billboard.
  6. Kirsten Ferguson (1 March 2012). "Rough Mix". Metroland. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  7. Fury's discography at discog.com
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.