Ep. 1071 Local Tyranny Persecutes Home Studio; Owner Fights Back
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Lij Shaw has recorded artists from Adele to John Oates, and for over a decade has operated a home studio out of his detached garage. The city of Nashville came after him for this, and persisted even after his neighbors signed a petition in his defense. Here's what happened, and what he's doing next.
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| 0:41.4 | Very interesting story today. |
| 0:42.9 | We're hoping to get a happy resolution on this story. |
| 0:46.9 | Lidge Shaw joins us today. |
| 0:49.0 | He is a lifelong record producer and now podcast producer. |
| 0:53.4 | He's recorded such folks as John Oates, |
| 0:56.6 | Adele, the Zach Brown band, and more. And he's got his own studio, his own home studio in his |
| 1:04.1 | detached garage. It's professionally soundproof. And he records his musician clients on his own |
| 1:10.1 | property so that he can be close to his |
| 1:12.5 | daughter as she grows up. That was his plan when he started this years ago. Well, in September |
| 1:19.4 | 2015, Lidge opened his mailbox to find a letter from the Nashville government, ordering him |
| 1:26.6 | to cease and desist the operation of his |
| 1:29.3 | home recording studio. And even though 40 of his neighbors signed a petition to help him |
| 1:35.2 | rezone his property for business, that was rejected by Metro Council. And so on December 5th, |
| 1:42.3 | he and a co-plaintiff filed suit against the city of Nashville. |
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