Thanks Bob and Larry! That puts a whole new slant on my walkthrough of United when it was for sale around 1997 for around $100,000. But the I-94 Expressway expansion was already happening and you could see that buiding was right off the current exit.
We always heard parliament funkadelic stories growing up in Detroit, and later on someone got their hands on some United reels which I promptly threw up on a totally wrong 16 or 24 track, and still managed to hear 'that sound'. 70's man.
Vintage King was a smaller operation, an extra room off to the side of Whiteroom Studios around then, 1993-7, mostly Mike Nehra constantly pacing around on the phone while we guilt-tripped him back into the control room to dial the API up, he was a great engineer.
Wally Heider Church mics?? This is just confusion I'm sure. As young dudes getting real interested, Mike was getting his hands on stuff that everyone here would lose their minds over now. The 'Christmas tree lights' Neves was a big to-do. We were all getting to sample and use this stuff as it was being stripped out and sold off.
Before the Motown Museum was in full operation, we got to go snoop around there and I remember snooping in the cutting room there were still old discreet Telefunken Lathe EQ cards kind of hanging out of the back of gear.
Ranting....