Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-320) and index.

The fifties through the mid-sixties : the pioneers. The original Coast Recorders ; Commercial Recorders ; Columbus Recorders ; Golden State Recorders ; Early recording around the Bay -- The late sixties : the San Francisco sound and studio explosion. A new San Francisco Coast ; Pacific High Recording ; Wally Heider Recording ; Pacific Recording ; Mercury, Columbia, and the launch of The Automatt -- The seventies : it's party time. The Record Plant : magical seeds ; Concord Records : past and future ; Different Fur ; Wally Heider Recording hits its stride ; The Automatt : the next cycle ; The Record Plant : new roots ; Recording in and out of the city -- The eighties : excess goes high tech. From Heider to Hyde Street ; A public Fantasy ; Eighties outposts ; San Francisco hills and valleys -- The nineties : from digital boom to dotcom bust. Coast-to-Coast-to...Toast? ; The Plant : 25 years and counting ; Two dotcom storm survivors -- The new millennium : picking up the pieces. The old guard ; New blood.

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