Previously on, keep the dream alive.

I was at a friend's house when I was in seventh grade, and my friend played me a

King's record. I remember flipping the back of the record over and seeing Ray

Davies from the King's leaning over a knee of console. That's when I first

started thinking that recording studios were potentially very very important to

artists, and that was the beginning for me. I started playing in my first band

when I was 24. I'd never been in a band before. So I was working in restaurants,

and I eventually decided that I needed to get a warehouse with my friends and

make it like a rehearsal place. I basically said that art is sacred and art

needs patrons, and she said I've decided to rent you the space. Well that was like

if you give me like an open door I'm in, I'm fucking there. And so we slowly

started building the infrastructure of a recording studio. I remember thinking

I can do this. This can actually be a business. I was asked by a noise pop, which

is like a local San Francisco festival. So I said yes, and the mountain goats,

or the third band, I had a promo copy of Massuicide of Cult Figurine. There was a

song on a cult Bill Gates must die, which by the way, he actually must die.

After the show, Darniel came up to me for mountain goats, and he was like hey

that was really good. He said hi this is John Vander Slice, and San Francisco. I

said okay look that is not your real name. But that was that was the beginning.

But yeah so we went out on a pretty punishing tour and those punishing

tours are places where people want to be.

Hi this is John Vander Slice owner of Tiny Telephone Recording and Musician. So my

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