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In 1963 I played guitar for a rock group called
the Destiny's the Band with the surf sound. One day
we all went to San Jose to a recording studio
called G&R Recordings owned by Gene Breeden and
a silent partner. It was quite an experience for me
to hear our band sounding like an on key earthquake
coming out of a pair of some Altec voice of the
theater speakers. The old analog Ampex recorders
used then only had three channels and recorded onto
one inch tape.
I knew from that day on I would always want be
around recordings studios and the process of
helping musicians reach their goals. The nostalgia
is gone and technology has made recording a lot
easy to get quality recordings today.
My younger brother Jim Le Sage came up with the
name "The Sound Foundation" when we lived in the
Monterey Bay area.
In The early_mid sixties my brother Jim and I
worked to build our own studio.
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Jim would bring home bands from high school like
"Flood and The High Waters" and "King and The Chess
Men." Jim and I became soul brothers with our
friends..
I'll never for get the day Jim came in with
three soul sisters we had that good motown sound
going in no time, the surpreams had nothing over
these girls
Later in 1975 Jim and I moved The Sound
Foundation to Napa CA. We serviced a lot of bands
in that area. "Jim Le Sage on Stage" the one man
band had his own show going and did quite well in
Napa.
My son Gene started to show an intrust in music
and recording when we lived in the Carson City area
1978. Gene learned to play Drums, Bass, Guitar, and
Piano and would help me with a lot of my sessions.
He was good on all those instruments and mastered
the piano in a short time. Gene and I still work
the studio together from California and Nashville.
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