WGNS Studios

WGNS Studios

WGNS Studios is a recording studio that was founded in the early 1980s in Bethesda, Maryland. The studio and it's counterpart WGNS Recordings were created in response to the closure of WGTB, Georgetown University's radio station, which lost it's FM frequency in 1979. WGNS was also intended as a play on the call letters for WGMS (FM), a classical music station in Washington, DC. WGNS is an acronym for "We Gots No Station", which was intended as a commentary on the closing of WGTB and the lack of any viable outlet for alternative music. The plan was that WGNS would record its own music and distribute cassettes.

WGNS is also the call letters of a radio station in Tennessee.WGNS is sometimes confused with WGSN, the "Worth Global Style Network".

Various incarnations of WGNS studios

This is a rough list, which needs to be corrected and updated.
*Bethesda, MD |(1982-1985?)
**Multitrack recordings made by overdubbing between two cassette decks.
**Open reel 1/4" 4-track recorder.
*Studio B-Town, SE Bethesda, MD |(1983-1986)
**Live recordings and performances
**Cassette 4-track
*Glover Park, Washington DC |(1985-1987?)
*Chinatown, Washington DC |(1987-1989?)
*Dupont Circle, Washington, DC |(1989-1991)
*FRR Studios Takeover, Bethesda, MD (1986-1990)
**1/4" 4 track
*Arlington, VA |(1991-1995)
** 16 track 1/2" recorder
** 16 track 1" Recorder
*14th Street NW, Washington, DC |(1995-1999)
** 24 track 2" recorder
** TAC Matchless console

Bands recorded at WGNS studios

*Bloody Mannequin Orchestra
*God and Co.
*European Diskoman
* [http://fandangorecs.com/adamwest/ Adam West]
*Crippled Pilgrims
*Gray Matter
*Sweedish Leroy and the Cupcakes
*Bozo Brigade
*Lost Brigadiers
*Corm
*Foo Fighters
*Pitchblende
*Drill for Absentee
*Danielle Howle
* Tsunami
*Candy Machine
*Capitol City Dusters
*Don MacKeen & Mao
*Blue Cross
*Falsex
*Hate From Ignorance
*TONE the guitar ensemble
*TSE

Other uses of the WGNS acronym

*"WaGoNS"
*"Walter G. Enesse"
*"Weird Guys, Nice Studio"

External links

* [http://www.wgns.com WGNS Studios ] at www.wgns.com


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